NO. 1124. EETISloy OF THE MELANOPLI—SCVIWER. 401 



2. APTENOPEDES RUFOVITTATA. 



(Plate XXVI, tig. 11.) 



Aptenopedes ruforittatn Scri)i>i:ul, Proc. Host. Soc. Xat. Hist., XIX (1877\ pp. H5- 

 Sti; Knt, Notes, VI (1«7M), p. 20.— IU<rxi:i{, Kep. L'. S. Knt. Couun.. Ill ( 1SK3), 

 p. 55. 



Body green, more or less infuscated above. Fa<*e minutely and rather 

 sparsely dotted with blackish fuscous, the mouth-parts and the lower 

 part of the face often decidedly pink; antennae with the first two Joints 

 {4reen, beyond either dull jj^reen more or less infuscated (male) or with 

 the basal half reddish or i)inkish brown and the apical half olivaceo- 

 fuscous (female); eyes as in .1. sphnuuioiiles. Pionotum rugulose, 

 nuich more heavily in the male than in the female, and the dorsum of 

 the other thoracic Joints and the b.asal abdominal Joints similarly 

 marked; prcmotum with a distinct (female) or inconspicuous (male) 

 median carina, ob.scurely infuscated in the male, «;enerally marked dis- 

 tinctly but narrowly with testaceous in the female, the surface of the 

 whole prouotum w ^j. a few scattered hairs, even more sparsely dis- 

 tributed than in A. Hphenarioides ; upper limit of the lateral lobes 

 marked by a slender black stripe, followed above by a somewhat 

 broader rufous band, fading to yellowish, and narrowed in the female; 

 this stripe does not extend upon the head. Tegmina wanting in the 

 male, very slender, linear, straight and green in the female. Legs green, 

 the hind femora tipped, at least in the male, with rufo testaceous and 

 black; hind tibiae glaucous; hind tarsi red, with bluck edged arolium 

 and black-tipped red claws. Abdomen, in the female, with an obscure 

 testaceous mediodorsal stripe, extending upon the thorax, and, on 

 the abdomen, followed by an obscure laterodorsal series of small dark 

 spots; or, in the male, with a similar distinct stripe, bordered by a more 

 or less distinct narrow or broad edging of black, fading laterally into 

 fuscous; supraanal idate of male motlerately long and slender, ta[)ering 

 from the base, at first gently, near tip rapidh', the apex slightly obtus- 

 angulate, the margins elevated, a median sulcus extending over the 

 basal half, bounded by pronounced but rounded ridges which unite in 

 the middle of the plate and then continue halfway to the tip; furcula 

 consisting of a pair of short, cylindrical lobes diverging at right angles, 

 projecting but little over the supraanal plate; cerci regularly conical 

 except that they are feebly compressed, acuminate, straight, reaching 

 the tip of the supraanal plate; infracercal plates broad, sulcate, broadly 

 rounded apicallj^, but acutely ^ cumiuate at the middle line, exteinl- 

 ing Just beyond the sui)raan* o. 



Length of body, male, j > j j.u.. female. 20.5 mm.; antennae, male, 

 6.5 mm., female, 5.4 mm. ; tegii.iua, female, 1.85 mm. ; hind femora, ma^e, 

 8.5 mm., female, 10 mm. 



Two males, 1 female. Fort Keed, Orange County, Florida, April 10- 

 21, J. H. Comstock. 



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