402 PROCEEDINGS OF THE XATIOXAL MUSEUM. vouxx. 



3. APTENOPEDES APTERA. 



(Plate XXVI, fig. 12.) 



ApteuopedeH aptera Scudder!. Troc. Boat. Sue. Nat. Hist. (1877), p. 86; Ent. Notes, 

 VI (1878), p. 27.— Bkuner, Rep. U. S. Ent. Coium., Ill (1883), p. 5.5. 



J5()(ly green; head green; eyes narrower, at least in the female, than 

 in ^l. sphenarioiiles, more closely approximated above, and the fas- 

 tiginni in advance of them less swollen. Tliorax with sculpturing simi- 

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

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

 is a faint pallid stripe, edged feebly, narrowly, and interrui)tedly 

 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, tlie 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 i^late; cerci much as in A. ruforittata^ but taper- 

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

 plates very broad, concave, tapering, entending 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, 0.5 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. II. 

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



