THE THREAD-LEGGED BUGS. 535 



longer than coxae. Apex of last dorsal of female with a short acute 

 median notch (fig. 45). Length, 11 — 12 mm. 



Lakehurst, N. J., May 13, type (Denis) ; taken from beneath 

 a pile of bricks. Known from Massachusetts, New York and 

 New Jersey. 



511 ( — ). Metapterus umbrosus sp. nov. 



Elongate, slender, subcylindrical. Black, opaque; head, both above 

 and below dark reddish-brown, heavily tinged with fuscous; antennae dark 

 brown; beak and front tibiae dark brownish-yellow, front tarsi and spines 

 of femora paler; all legs dark fuscous-brown without annuli or pale 

 spots. Front legs relatively very long and slender, their coxae slightly 

 longer than head and pronotum united, distinctly thickened from base 

 to apex; front femora one-third longer than coxae and but little if any 

 stouter than apical half of latter, their basal spine at basal two-fifths of 

 under surface, or distinctly farther forward than in our other eastern 

 species; front tarsi about two-thirds the length of tibiae, the latter only 

 one-third the length of femora. Seventh dorsal of male with apex obtuse- 

 ly rounded, projecting beyond the apex of genital, the latter with an 

 erect spine between the tips of claspers. Length, 15 mm. 



Royal Palm Park, Fla., Dec. 7 ; one apterous male beaten 

 from fallen dead leaves of royal palm in the dense hammock 

 on Paradise Key. 



VII. Ghilianella Spinola, 1852, 142. 



Very elongate, slender wingless species having the head 

 long, cylindrical, porrect, its posterior portion the longer, nar- 

 rowed behind, its front one with a slender, more or less de- 

 curved spine arising from the tip of tylus between the bases of 

 antennas (fig. 24) ; eyes small; pronotum slightly longer than 

 either meso- or metanotum, these subequal and tricarinate, the 

 front half of mesonotum more or less narrowed and prolonged 

 forward ; abdomen linear, keeled below, usually wider in the 

 female, in males sometimes abruptly inflated at or slightly be- 

 fore apex ; middle and hind legs very slender, longer than body ; 

 front legs with coxae longer than pronotum, femora armed be- 

 neath with one long spine near middle, followed toward apex 

 by numerous unequal shorter ones. About 40 species have 

 been described, mostly from tropical America. Of these one 

 occurs in Florida. 



512 (711). Ghilianella productilis Barber, 1914, 502. 



Linear. Grayish-brown, darker posteriorly and below, thickly 

 clothed with short and fine yellowish pubescence ; legs and carina? of 

 meso- and metanotum straw-yellow; apical half of front coxae, under sur- 



