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  AMERICAN 
  PLOIARIINAE 
  McATEE 
  AND 
  MALLOCH 
  39 
  

  

  1. 
  fifatm, 
  Ent. 
  Syst., 
  vol. 
  4. 
  1794, 
  p. 
  191. 
  East 
  India, 
  p. 
  263. 
  

  

  2. 
  longipes, 
  Ent. 
  Syst., 
  vol. 
  4, 
  1794, 
  p. 
  191. 
  America, 
  p. 
  263. 
  

  

  3. 
  mantis, 
  Ent. 
  Syst., 
  vol. 
  4, 
  1794, 
  p. 
  190. 
  Islands 
  of 
  America, 
  

   p. 
  263. 
  

  

  4. 
  precatorius, 
  new 
  species. 
  Middle 
  America, 
  pp. 
  263-264. 
  

  

  The 
  status 
  of 
  these 
  species 
  is 
  discussed 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  para- 
  

   graphs. 
  

  

  1. 
  Unidentified 
  by 
  Dohrn 
  (Emesina, 
  1860, 
  p. 
  230) 
  who 
  shows 
  that 
  

   the 
  references 
  by 
  Gray, 
  Bridle, 
  and 
  Blanchard 
  do 
  not 
  certainly 
  apply 
  

   to 
  the 
  insect 
  Fabricius 
  had. 
  Distant 
  ? 
  s 
  citation 
  8 
  adds 
  nothing 
  that 
  

   would 
  make 
  definite 
  the 
  status 
  of 
  this 
  species. 
  Stal 
  ;1 
  queries 
  filum 
  

   showing 
  that 
  the 
  type 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  found. 
  We 
  conclude 
  that 
  the 
  

   species 
  is 
  entirely 
  unidentifiable. 
  

  

  2. 
  Stal 
  9 
  writes 
  that 
  longipes 
  is 
  a 
  Zelus, 
  thus 
  removing 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  fac- 
  

   tor 
  in 
  taxonomy 
  of 
  the 
  Ploiariinae. 
  

  

  3. 
  The 
  type 
  of 
  mantis 
  recorded 
  by 
  Fabricius 
  in 
  his 
  original 
  de- 
  

   scription 
  as 
  being 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  is 
  still 
  in 
  that 
  institution 
  

   and 
  in 
  good 
  condition. 
  Through 
  the 
  kindness 
  of 
  W. 
  E. 
  China 
  we 
  

   are 
  able 
  to 
  describe 
  and 
  illustrate 
  it 
  in 
  this 
  paper. 
  

  

  4. 
  The 
  Emesa 
  precatorius 
  of 
  the 
  Sy 
  sterna 
  Rhyngotorum 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  

   Gerris 
  praecatorius 
  of 
  the 
  Entomologia 
  Systematica 
  (described 
  from 
  

   Guinea). 
  The 
  type 
  is 
  still 
  is 
  existence 
  (Sehestedt 
  Museum), 
  and 
  we 
  

   have 
  been 
  furnished 
  data 
  concerning 
  it 
  by 
  Dr. 
  William 
  Lundbeck. 
  

   (Seep. 
  82.) 
  

  

  Summarizing 
  data 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  type 
  species 
  of 
  Emesa 
  Fabricius, 
  it 
  

   appears 
  that 
  mantis 
  was 
  at 
  least 
  acceptably 
  selected 
  by 
  Laporte 
  as 
  

   the 
  genotype. 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand 
  it 
  is 
  only 
  by 
  a 
  stretch 
  of 
  the 
  

   imagination 
  that 
  precatorius 
  can 
  be 
  considered 
  the 
  genotype. 
  (See 
  

   Appendix 
  1.) 
  

  

  The 
  genus 
  Emesa 
  differs 
  from 
  Stenolemus 
  in 
  number 
  of 
  tarsal 
  

   joints, 
  in 
  venation, 
  and 
  in 
  having 
  no 
  long 
  spines 
  on 
  either 
  the 
  meso- 
  

   notum 
  or 
  metanotum, 
  though 
  the 
  former 
  has 
  a 
  central 
  elevation 
  and 
  

   the 
  latter 
  an 
  apical 
  tubercle, 
  sometimes 
  pronounced. 
  The 
  genus 
  

   Myiophanes 
  Renter 
  is 
  related 
  to 
  Emesa 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  figured 
  the 
  

   venation 
  of 
  the 
  forewing 
  (fig. 
  33) 
  for 
  comparative 
  purposes. 
  

  

  KEY 
  TO 
  THE 
  SUBGENERA. 
  

  

  1. 
  Fore 
  tibia 
  with 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  erect 
  antero-ventral 
  spinules 
  which 
  are 
  about 
  half 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  diameter 
  of 
  tibia, 
  and 
  between 
  each 
  pair 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  or 
  more 
  

   shorter 
  spinules; 
  fore 
  femur 
  as 
  in 
  Stenolemus, 
  without 
  a 
  distinct 
  break 
  in 
  

   antero-ventral 
  series 
  of 
  spines 
  near 
  base, 
  but 
  the 
  postero-ventral 
  series 
  

   curved 
  ventrad 
  at 
  base 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  last 
  long 
  spine 
  is 
  almost 
  in 
  middle 
  of 
  

   ventral 
  surface; 
  venation 
  of 
  forewing 
  as 
  in 
  figures 
  45, 
  46, 
  47; 
  prothorax 
  

   elongate 
  pedunculate, 
  two 
  small 
  round 
  warts 
  on 
  disk 
  of 
  posterior 
  lobe. 
  

  

  Emesa 
  Fabricius 
  (p. 
  40). 
  

  

  8 
  Fauna 
  British 
  India, 
  Rhynchota, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  216. 
  

  

  9 
  Hemlptera 
  Fabriciana, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  1869, 
  p. 
  123. 
  

  

  