576 FAMILY XIX. — REDUVIHLE. 



posed; legs slender, subequal in length, the front femora slight- 

 ly swollen ; tibiae beset with numerous fine erect hairs. Genital 

 plate of male suborbicular, convex, its apex with a short slen- 

 der erect spine. One of the six known species occurs with us, 

 the others in tropical America. 



550 (791). Rocconota annulicornis (Stal), 1872, 77. 



Elongate-oval, rather stout. Dull reddish- or straw-yellow, rather 

 thickly clothed with a fine yellow pubescence; head tinged with fuscous; 

 joint 1 of antennae annulate with two broad brownish rings; 2 and 3 pale 

 at base; spines of pronotum blackish at base, yellow above; femora with 

 a vague brownish ring near apex and tibiae usually with one near base; 

 incisures of connexivum and a broad bar behind them dark brown. Joint 

 1 of antennae as long as head and pronotum united, twice the length of 

 2, 3 nearly as long as 1, 4 shorter than 2. Pronotum with side margins 

 feebly sinuate, disk of front lobe rugose. Abdomen in both sexes feebly 

 widened behind the middle, the apical angle of first ventral prolonged as 

 a short spine. Length, 16 — 20 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., April 7—11 (W.S.B.). Mobile, Ala., Aug. 

 27— Sept. 8 (Gerhard). Raleigh, N. Car., Aug. 25 (Brimley). 

 Montgomery Co., Md., June (Davis). Not before known from 

 Florida. The Dunedin specimens were beaten from foliage 

 along the margins of a dense wet hammock. Stal's types were 

 from Texas and Mexico and it has since been recorded in this 

 country only from New Jersey. 



V. Repipta Stal, 1859b, 366. 



Rather small, elongate slender species differing from Rocco- 

 nota only by the characters given in key, and in having the 

 front lobe of head as long as hind one, the latter suddenly con- 

 stricted about its middle ; pronotum shorter, its front lobe less 

 narrowed ; front femora not swollen ; apical angles of ventrals 

 not prolonged. About 15 species are known, mostly from trop- 

 ical America, three occurring in this country, one in our ter- 

 ritory. 



551 (786). Repipta taurus (Fabricius), 1803, 291. 



Elongate, slender, subparallel. Orange-red or yellow; hind lobe of 

 pronotum with four stripes and the spines black ; corium and clavus 

 black or fuscous, the costal margin pale; membrane fuscous-brown, 

 translucent; joints 1 and 2 of antennae and femora black; apical joints 

 of antennae, tibiae and tarsi fuscous-brown. Spines of head and pronotum 

 long and slender. Joint 3 of antennae one-fourth longer than 1, 2 short- 

 est, one-fourth the length of 3, 4 about twice as long as 2. Hind lobe of 



