400 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL.XX. 



i. APTENOPEDES SPHENARIOIDES. 

 CPlateXXVI, fig. 10.) 



Aptenopedes splienarloides SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1877) r 

 pp. 84-85; Ent. Notes, VI (1878), p. 25. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm.. 

 Ill (1883), p. 55. 



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

 and whole front flecked with fuscous or blackish puncta; antennae with 

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

 apical third blackish fuscous. Pronotum uniformly dull rugulose, 

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

 very scattered, inconspicuous, delicate, short, white 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 pronotum; 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- 

 inina reaching the end of the first 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 iufuscated 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 with 

 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 ; infracercal 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 Eeed, 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. Mayuard : Biscayne Bay, Dade County, Florida, 

 E. Palmer. 



