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  PEOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  XATWXAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  I. 
  APTENOPEDES 
  SPHENARIOIDES. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XXVI, 
  fig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  Aptenopedes 
  sph^narioides 
  Scuddeu!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1877), 
  

   pp. 
  81-85; 
  Eut. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  25.— 
  Eruner, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Conim.. 
  

   Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  55. 
  

  

  Body 
  green, 
  the 
  upper 
  surface 
  a 
  little 
  infuscated 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  Head 
  

   and 
  wbole 
  front 
  tiecked 
  with 
  fii-scous 
  or 
  blackish 
  puncta; 
  antennae 
  with 
  

   the 
  first 
  two 
  joints 
  pale 
  or 
  greenish, 
  beyond 
  growing 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  

   apical 
  third 
  blackish 
  fuscous. 
  Pronotuoi 
  uniformly 
  dull 
  rugulose, 
  

   more 
  obscurely 
  on 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  than 
  above, 
  and 
  furnished 
  with 
  

   very 
  scattered, 
  inconspicuous, 
  delicate, 
  short, 
  Avliite 
  hairs 
  found 
  also 
  

   on 
  the 
  head, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  white 
  or 
  very 
  pale 
  pink, 
  straight 
  lateral 
  stripe, 
  

   running 
  from 
  the 
  upper 
  posterior 
  border 
  of 
  the 
  eye 
  to 
  the 
  hinder 
  edge 
  

   of 
  the 
  pronotura; 
  this 
  stripe 
  is 
  bordered 
  more 
  (male) 
  or 
  less 
  (female) 
  

   distinctly 
  with 
  black 
  beneath; 
  lower 
  edges 
  of 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  a 
  little 
  pale, 
  

   especially 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  terminating 
  bluntly. 
  Teg- 
  

   mina 
  reaching 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  fir.st 
  abdominal 
  segment, 
  white 
  above, 
  

   black 
  below, 
  in 
  continuation 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  stripe. 
  Metapleura 
  more 
  

   or 
  less 
  distinctly 
  striped 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  white 
  in 
  imitation 
  of 
  the 
  

   tegmina. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  green 
  exteriorly, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated 
  in 
  

   the 
  female, 
  especially 
  above, 
  the 
  upper 
  carina 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  

   obscurely 
  marked 
  with 
  black, 
  the 
  outer 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  face 
  more 
  

   or 
  less 
  distinctly 
  testaceous 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  green 
  v/ith 
  

   a 
  plumbeous 
  tinge, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  tipped. 
  Abdomen 
  obscurely 
  

   punctate 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  with 
  small, 
  indistinct, 
  laterodorsal 
  spots 
  of 
  

   mingled 
  white 
  and 
  blue 
  black 
  dots 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  

   segments, 
  which 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  lie 
  at 
  the 
  outer 
  limit 
  of 
  a 
  broad 
  dorsal 
  

   testaceous 
  stripe, 
  which 
  is 
  bordered 
  externally 
  with 
  blackish 
  and 
  so 
  

   obscures 
  the 
  spots; 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  slender, 
  elongate, 
  equal 
  as 
  

   far 
  as 
  the 
  middle, 
  beyond 
  subtriangular, 
  acutangulate 
  at 
  tip, 
  the 
  mar- 
  

   gins 
  elevated, 
  with 
  a 
  slender, 
  sharp, 
  median 
  sulcus, 
  bordered 
  basally 
  

   by 
  slight 
  ridges; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  subattingent, 
  parallel, 
  

   blunt, 
  cylindrical 
  processes, 
  extending 
  but 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  over 
  the 
  

   plate; 
  cerci 
  rather 
  small, 
  laminate, 
  tapering 
  rapidly 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  

   beyond 
  equal 
  and 
  slender, 
  but 
  at 
  tip 
  acuminate 
  by 
  the 
  excision 
  of 
  the 
  

   upper 
  margin, 
  the 
  whole 
  feebly 
  incurved 
  ; 
  iufracercal 
  plates 
  large, 
  broad 
  

   apically, 
  extending 
  slightly 
  beyond 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  and 
  very 
  

   broadly 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  17 
  mm., 
  female, 
  25 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male 
  and 
  

   female, 
  7 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  3 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   male, 
  10 
  mm., 
  female, 
  11.25 
  mm. 
  

  

  Three 
  males, 
  5 
  females. 
  Fort 
  Reed, 
  Orange 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  April 
  

   8-28, 
  J. 
  H. 
  Comstock; 
  Jacksonville, 
  Duval 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  April, 
  

   C. 
  J. 
  Maynard; 
  The 
  same, 
  August, 
  W. 
  H. 
  Ashmead 
  (U.S.:N^.M.); 
  Key 
  

   West, 
  Florida, 
  C. 
  J. 
  Maynard 
  : 
  Biscayne 
  Bay, 
  Dade 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  

   E. 
  Palmer. 
  

  

  