400 rRocEEDiyas of the xatwxal museum. vol.xx. 



I. APTENOPEDES SPHENARIOIDES. 

 (Plate XXVI, Hg. 10.) 



Jpttnopedes Hphennrin'ulen ScrDDKitl, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1^77), 

 I>l».Xl-«r); Kut. Notes, VI (1878). p. 25. — HiiuxEK, Rap. V. S. Eut. Coniiu.. 

 Ill nH83), p. ."). 



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

 and whole front Mecked with fuscous or blackish i)uncta ; antennae with 

 the first two Joints pale or jjreenish, beyond «?rowingf testaceous, the 

 apical third blackish fuscous. Pronotuni uniformly dull rugulose, 

 more obs<nirely on the lateral lobes than above, and furnished with 

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

 on the heatl, and with a white or very ])ale pink, straight lateral stripe, 

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

 of the pronotuni; 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 entl of the first abdominal segment, white above, 

 black beh)w, in continuation of the lateral 8trii)e. 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 u]»per face more 

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

 a idumbeous tinge, the spines black tipped. Abdomen obscurely 

 punctate on the basal half with small, indisti'ict, laterodorsal spots of 

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

 segments, which iu 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, 

 bej'ond ecpial 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 n;m., female, 4 mm.; hind femora, 

 male, 10 mm., female, 11.25 mm. 



Three males. 5 females. Fort Heed, 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. 



