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adults at hand the discoidal cell of elytra is marked with a 

 short black line, and in three the inner margin of clavus is in 

 great part black. The largest specimen, a female from Raleigh, 

 is brachypterous. The known range of this species extends 

 from New York west to southern Illinois and Arkansas, and 

 southwest to Florida, Texas, Panama and Central America. 

 Barber records it from six stations in Florida, including St. 

 Augustine, Marco and Miami. It is the largest member of the 

 Stenopodinse and its long hind legs give it somewhat the aspect 

 of a giant mosquito, whence the old specific name. Uhler 

 (1884, 279) states that: "It, as well as its young, lurks about 

 the branches and twigs of trees, watching for caterpillars and 

 other insects upon which to leap and transfix with the curved 

 acute rostrum, and while holding one between the fore femora 

 and tibiae, soon sucks it to death." 



V. Schumannia Champion, 1898, 185. 



Elongate, narrow species having the head subcylindrical, the 

 front and hind portions subequal in length, the sides of the 

 latter slightly rounded and armed with four laterally project- 

 ing stout setif erous spines ; eyes rounded, very prominent ; 

 cheeks ending in moderately long divergent porrect spines ; an- 

 tennas short, joint 1 about as long as front portion of head ; pro- 

 notum about twice as long as broad, its sides feebly converging 

 from base to middle, then subparallel, their front angles un- 

 armed ; scutellum with an erect tubercle at apex ; elytra reach- 

 ing tip of abdomen, their inner margin strongly sinuate before 

 the apex, the latter pointed; front femora strongly swollen, 

 armed beneath with two rows of very short spines and a few 

 longer ones near base; front tibise as long as the femora and 

 with a short spongy fossa beneath the apex. But one species 

 is known. 



524 (726). Schumannia mexicana Champion, 1898, 185. 



Dull grayish-yellow, mottled with fuscous; head with a blackish 

 median stripe, this forming two lines in front; front lobe of pronotum 

 fuscous, disk with a median black line; scutellum black; inner half of 

 corium with an interrupted oblique fuscous streak, outer half with a 

 pale grayish one; membrane with a row of small blackish spots on outer 

 cell; connexivum spotted with black; legs dull yellow, flecked with fus- 

 cous; tarsi and tips of tibise fuscous; spines on front trochanters and 

 femora, black, conspicuous. Antennae dull yellow, pilose, joint 1 much 

 stouter than and one-half as long as 2, 3 short, very slender. Pronotum 



