SUBFAMILY III. — STENOPODIN^E. 551 



darker but pale at base; front femora, except middle, knees of middle 

 and hind femora and two broad rings on front and middle tibia?, fuscous- 

 black; elytra fuscous, finely maculate with paler; beak fuscous, with 

 two pale rings; under surface dull yellow, irregularly marked with fus- 

 cous streaks and blotches. Antennae inserted in front of cheeks, joint 1 

 glabrous, scarcely as long as front portion of head; joints 2 — 4 thickly 

 beset with erect stiff hairs, 3 and 4 subequal, very slender, united less 

 than half the length of 2. Apex of last dorsal of male with a small 

 median notch. Length, 14 — 15 mm. 



Royal Palm Park, Fla., Dec. 12 ; one nymph in last instar 

 taken from beneath a board by the side of a ditch (W. S. B.). 

 White Lake, N. Car., June (Brimley). Mobile, Ala., June 4 

 (Gerhard). Stal's types were from Texas, and it has been re- 

 corded elsewhere only from St. Petersburg and Everglade, Fla., 

 and Pueblo, Colo. 



526 (729). Onococephalus apiculatus Reuter, 1882, 728. 



Elongate, subparallel. Color a nearly uniform dull brownish-yellow; 

 antennae, scutellum, a median stripe on pronotum, a short line on middle 

 of edge of each connexival and apical fourth of femora fuscous or tinged 

 with fuscous. Disk of pronotum with two obtuse longitudinal ridges ex- 

 tending from middle of front lobe to middle of hind one, its front angles 

 obtuse, hind ones obtusely rounded. Spines of inner lower margin of 

 front femora more numerous and slightly longer than in geniculatits. 

 Length, 16 mm. 



Hamilton Co., Kan. (Brimley). Described from Missouri. Re- 

 corded by Malloch (1920, 240) from Illinois. Not known else- 

 where. 



VII. Narvesus Stal, 1859b, 383. 



A monotypic genus, differing from Oncocephalus mainly by 

 the characters given in generic key. Front portion of head 

 shorter. Male with eyes larger, almost contiguous beneath; 

 antennae pilose throughout, and last dorsal with apex subtrun- 

 cate, its median notch U-shaped. Female larger, with eyes 

 smaller, more separated beneath ; ocelli less elevated, basal 

 joints of antennae less pilose. 



527 (731). Narvesus carolinensis Stal, 1859b, 385. 



Elongate, subparallel. Dull straw-yellow; antennae, ocellar tuber- 

 cles, scutellum, clavus, a large spot on discoidal cell of corium, and an 

 oblong one on outer cell of membrane, fuscous-brown or tinged with fus- 

 cous; under surface with some vague, irregular fuscous markings. Joint 

 1 of antennae half the length of 2. Pronotum almost as wide at base as 

 long, strongly narrowed from base to apex, front angles ending in a 



