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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  3. 
  APTENOPEDES 
  APTERA. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XXVI, 
  fig. 
  12.) 
  

  

  Aptenopedefi 
  aptera 
  Scudder!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  86; 
  Ent. 
  Notes, 
  

   VI 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  27.— 
  Bkuxer, 
  Eep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Exit. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  55. 
  

  

  Body 
  green; 
  head 
  green; 
  eyes 
  narrower, 
  at 
  least 
  iu 
  the 
  female, 
  than 
  

   in 
  A. 
  sphenarioides, 
  more 
  closely 
  approximated 
  above, 
  and 
  the 
  fas- 
  

   tiginm 
  iu 
  advance 
  of 
  them 
  less 
  swollen. 
  Thorax 
  with 
  sculpturing 
  simi- 
  

   lar 
  to 
  that 
  in 
  A. 
  sjihenarioifles, 
  but 
  wholly 
  devoid 
  of 
  any 
  lateral 
  stripe 
  or 
  

   with 
  feeblest 
  signs 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  iu 
  the 
  male, 
  however, 
  there 
  

   is 
  a 
  faint 
  pallid 
  stripe, 
  edged 
  feebly, 
  narrowly, 
  and 
  interruptedly 
  

   beneath 
  with 
  very 
  dark 
  green. 
  Tegmina 
  wholly 
  wanting 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  

   Legs 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  species, 
  except 
  in 
  wanting 
  the 
  testaceous 
  color 
  on 
  

   the 
  outer 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  face 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Abdomen 
  green, 
  

   with 
  a 
  mediodorsal 
  testaceous 
  stripe 
  with 
  obscurely 
  infuscated 
  edges, 
  

   extending 
  also 
  over 
  the 
  meso- 
  and 
  metanota; 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  

   subtriangular, 
  with 
  slightly 
  convex 
  sides, 
  the 
  apex 
  acutely 
  angulate, 
  

   the 
  surface 
  tolerably 
  flat 
  except 
  that 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  are 
  elevated 
  

   on 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  the 
  extreme 
  tip 
  is 
  suddenly 
  raised 
  to 
  a 
  higher 
  level, 
  

   and 
  the 
  median 
  basal 
  sulcus, 
  which 
  reaches 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  plate, 
  

   is 
  flanked 
  by 
  heavy 
  parallel 
  walls 
  which 
  unite 
  beyond 
  its 
  tip 
  and 
  extend 
  

   nearly 
  to 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  plate; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  minute, 
  

   rounded, 
  divergent 
  lobes, 
  seated 
  upon 
  the 
  ridges 
  bounding 
  the 
  median 
  

   sulcus 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  much 
  as 
  in 
  ^-L. 
  rufovittata, 
  but 
  taper- 
  

   ing 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  rapidly 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half; 
  infracercal 
  

   plates 
  very 
  broad, 
  concave, 
  tapering, 
  entendiug 
  beyond 
  the 
  supraanal 
  

   plate 
  by 
  their 
  slightly 
  thickened, 
  bluntly 
  pointed, 
  slightly 
  separated 
  

   apices. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  24 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  8 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  G.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  11.25 
  mm., 
  female, 
  10.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  3 
  females, 
  Fort 
  Reed, 
  Orange 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  April 
  27, 
  

   J. 
  H. 
  Comstock; 
  Jacksonville, 
  Duval 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  August, 
  W. 
  H. 
  

   Ashmead 
  (XJ.S.N.M.); 
  Texas 
  (U.S.N.M.). 
  

  

  