542 FAMILY XIX. — REDUVIIDjE. 



Scutellum with front spine slightly curved, suberect, nearly as long as 

 those of pronotum, hind one much shorter, slightly upcurved. Elytra 

 reaching tip of abdomen, gradually but feebly widened from base to the 

 broadly rounded apex; nervures of corium elevated, prominent, forming 

 only two completely closed discal cells. Front legs shorter and stouter 

 than the others, their femora armed beneath with numerous short, rather 

 stout setae; tibiae of male curved, swollen at apex and beset beneath and 

 within with similar setae. Length, 8.5 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., April 22, two nymphs in the fourth instar, 

 beaten from the dead leaves of cabbage palmetto. Everglade, 

 Fla., April (Doris). Known only from the two localities men- 

 tioned. 



Subfamily III. STENOPODIN7E Amyot & Serville, 1843, 386. 



Slender bodied subparallel species having both head and 

 basal joint of antennae porrect, the former with front lobe but 

 little narrower than hind one ; ocelli placed close together near 

 front or middle of hind lobe; pronotum longer than wide, its 

 transverse constriction scarcely evident; scutellum small, its 

 apex usually ending in a short obtuse horizontal spine; elytra 

 entire, the discoidal cell in front of membrane large, variable in 

 form ; connexivum narrowly or not at all exposed ; front and 

 middle legs short, the former feebly raptorial, their tibiae with- 

 out a terminal spongy fossa; hind legs longer, more slender; 

 ventrals 2 — 4 placed diagonally, their sutures angulate or 

 curved. About a dozen genera are known, seven of which are 

 represented in our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN GENERA OF STENOPODIN.E. 



a. Head with one or more branched or bifid spines or processes on each 



side below and behind the eyes. 



b. Joint 1 of antennae with apex produced forward as a blunt spine 



beyond the base of joint 2; front femora armed beneath on each 



side with prominent spines. I. Pnirontis, p. 543. 



bb. Joint 1 of antennae not spined at apex. 



c. Front femora unarmed; joint 1 of beak nearly twice as long as 

 the others united; apex of head at base of beak unarmed. 



II. Pygolampis, p. 545. 



cc. Front femora armed beneath with two rows of short spines; joint 



1 of beak subequal in length to 2 and 3 united; apex of head 



armed with a short porrect obtuse spine on each side at base 



of beak. III. Gnathobleda, p. 547. 



iki. Head without branched spines or processes behind and below the 



eyes, rarely with small simple ones. 



