SUBFAMILY III. — STENOPODIN^. 547 



more uneven, with grooves and ridges poorly denned. Spine in front 

 of each fore coxa? prominent. Length, 13 — 16 mm. 



Frequent throughout Indiana, more so in the southern 

 counties ; occurs throughout the year. Bassenger, R. P. Park 

 and Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 18 — March 24. Listed from eight 

 other stations in that State. In Indiana it hibernates, both as 

 nymph and adult, singly or in pairs, beneath chunks, boards 

 and other cover, along roadsides and borders of upland woods. 

 In summer I have found it in small colonies beneath loose bark 

 of oak stumps in high dense woodlands and beneath rotten 

 chunks in damp places. In Florida the nymphs have been 

 sifted from weed debris in low moist grounds, and the adults 

 found beneath bark. It is a species of wide distribution, hav- 

 ing been recorded from all parts of the United States. Noth- 

 ing regarding its habits is on record. 



III. Gnathobleda Stal, 1859b, 380. 



Elongate-oval species having the head and pronotum sub- 

 equal in length, the former, in our species, with spines on lower 

 sides of hind lobe fused into two or three forked processes ; 

 joint 1 of antennae slightly shorter than head, not spined at 

 apex; disk of pronotum with a vague transverse median im- 

 pression and four obtuse longitudinal carinae; elytra subequal 

 in length to abdomen, male, somewhat shorter, female ; front 

 femora strongly swollen, armed beneath with two rows of 

 short spines. One species occurs in Central America, a second 

 in Mexico and a third in Cuba and the southern states. 



522 (725). Gnathobleda tumidula Stal, 1872, 121. 



Elongate-oval. Pale straw-yellow, subglabrous ; basal lobe of head, 

 a vague median stripe on pronotum, scutellum, small spot at apex of 

 front discal cell of corium, another near middle of outer cell of mem- 

 brane, and the apical third of each connexival, fuscous-brown; front fem- 

 ora pale brown flecked with small yellow spots, middle and hind ones 

 straw-yellow, their apical fourth brown ; tibiae dull yellow annulate with 

 two or three brown rings; under surface pale brown flecked with numer- 

 ous yellowish spots and dots. Antennae with joint 1 and basal half of 2, 

 straw-yellow, remainder fuscous-brown ; 1 rather slender, narrowed to- 

 ward base; 2 more slender, nearly twice as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 united 

 about one-half the length of 2, 4 nearly one-half longer than 3. Front 

 of head ending in a pair of obtuse spines between the bases of antenna?. 

 Pronotum with lateral carina? of disk forked or branched and lower front 

 angle of flanks ending in a prominent spine. Hind femora of male 

 slightly passing apex of abdomen, the latter rounded; female with hind 



