548 FAMILY XIX. — REDUVIHLE. 



femora not reaching apex of abdomen, the latter acutely produced. 

 Length, 11.5 — 14.5 mm. 



Dimedin, Fla., Feb. 22 — March 4 ; several nymphs in last 

 instar sifted from weed debris along the margins of wet ham- 

 mocks. Santiago las Vegas, Cuba, Oct. 26 (Fracker). Recorded 

 from Georgia and Texas. 



IV. STENOPODA Laporte, 1832, 26. 



Elongate, rather stout species having the sides of head sub- 

 parallel, the front portion slightly wider and three times longer 

 than hind one, both it and pronotum with numerous bristly 

 setose hairs or slender spines ; antennae with similar hairs, in- 

 serted on sides of apical fourth of head far in advance of eyes, 

 the bifurcate tylus between their bases ; eyes small but promi- 

 nent ; scutellum small, its apex acute ; elytra usually reaching 

 middle of last dorsal, sometimes abbreviated and reaching only 

 third dorsal ; abdomen wide, subdepressed above ; legs slender, 

 the hind ones much the longer, all thickly beset with very fine 

 setose bristles; ventral surface of abdomen strongly carinate 

 at middle ; last dorsal flat with apex truncate, male, conical 

 with apex obtuse, female. Three species are known, all trop- 

 ical or neotropical, one ranging northward into our territory. 



523 (727). Stenopoda cinerea Laporte, 1832, 26. ,;r 



Elongate, robust for the subfamily. Dull straw-yellow; apical joints 

 of antenna?, membrane of elytra and sides of abdomen often tinged with 

 fuscous; femora with vague fuscous dots and streaks, their apical fourth 

 darker. Beak with joint 1 subequal to 2 and 3 united. Joint 1 of anten- 

 nae not much swollen, as long as head, 2 one-third longer, 3 and 4 sub- 

 equal, each one-half the length of 1. Pronotum subcampanulate, much 

 wider behind, its disk with two obtuse ridges, these divergent toward 

 base, front angles acute, hind ones ending in a short suberect obtuse 

 spine. Front femora armed beneath with two rows of very short tuber- 

 cles. Length, 22 — 30 mm. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., February — March, nymphs 

 only ; beaten from dead leaves of cabbage and royal palms and 

 sifted from weed debris (W.S.B.). Lakehurst, N. J., and 

 Yaphank, N. Y., July (Davis). Mobile, Ala., and Havana, Cuba, 

 June (Gerhard). Henderson, Ky., June 1 (Marshall). Raleigh, 

 N. Car., July 11— Sept. 14 (Brimley). In five of the eight 



" 7 Usually listed as Stenopoda culidformis Fabrieius (1775), it having been de- 

 scribed by that author as Cimex culidformis. This name, however, had ajready been 

 used by De Goer (1773) for the Ploiariid now known as Empicoris culicijormis (De 

 til. Laporte's name is therefore the next one available for the species. 



