NO. 1530. THE DECTICIN^ OF NORTH AMERICA— CA U'DELL. 327 



General color a light yellowish, quite uniform except the lateral 

 lobes of the pronotuni, which are black on the upper half for the entire 

 length. 



MeasuTemenU. — Length, pronotum, male and female, W mm.; pos- 

 terior femora, male, 32, female, 30; ovipositor, 2-1:; cerci, male, 3.5-4.5, 

 female, 2.5: width, pronotum at widest point, male and female, 8; pos- 

 terior femora at widest point, male and female, 7, at narrowest point, 

 male and female, 1.5. 



Type. — In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts, 



Specimens examined. — Four adult and two immature specimens 

 from Florida and one male and two females from North Carolina. 



The Scudder collection contains live specimens, two male nymphs 

 from Florida and one male and two female adults from North Caro- 

 lina. The above description was drawn up from the adults from 

 North Carolina. The U. S. National Museum is indebted to the lil^er- 

 alit}' of Professor Bruner for an adult male specimen of this species 

 from Lake City, Florida. 



This large southern species is a very noticeal)le form. The large 

 and posteriorly rounded pronotum will serve to readily separate it 

 from the other members of the genus. It superticially resembles the 

 European Thyreonotus co7'sicus^ but is not structurally allied to that 

 species. 



Immature individuals of this species were found by Mr. Rehn quite 

 plentiful in southern Georgia. They were found in pine woods in 

 March and April, probably maturing about July. 



APOTE Scudder. 



Drymadusa Scudder (not Stein), Can. Ent., XXVI, 1894, pp. 178-180. 

 Apote Scudder, Can. Ent., XXIX, 1897, p. 73.— Kirby, Syn. Cat. < )rth., II, 1906, 

 p. 182. 



Description. — Head medium in size; eyes large and moderately 

 prominent; vertex about one-fourth,as broad as the interocular space. 

 Pronotum long and narrow, posteriorly well produced over the base 

 of the abdomen; disk rounded anteriorly and tectate posteriorly, the 

 anterior margin truncate, the posterior margin semicircularly rounded; 

 lateral lobes longer than high, the posterior margin slightly sinuate; 

 lateral and median carina* absent on the anterior portion of the prono- 

 tum, posteriorly present, the former parallel and blunt, the latter low 

 but fairly sharp; prosternum armed with a pair of long sharp spines. 

 Wings short but equall}' developed in both sexes, convex, overlapping 

 above and projecting beyond the pronotum a distance less than the 

 length of the pronotum. Legs stout; posterior femora short, less than 

 two times as long as the pronotum, abruptly and considerably swollen 

 on the basal half, or slightly more; anterior tibiae armed above on the 

 outer margin only with three spines; all the femora armed beneath on 



