4 o 



I. AHMAD 



$. Body length, 14-5-15-5 mm., width, 2-2—2-3 mm - Head length, 1-9-2-0 mm., width, 

 1-3-1-4 mm. Antennae, segment I, 3-3-3-7 mm., (only paraclypeae 0-7-0-8 mm.), II, 2-3— 

 2-5 mm., Ill, 2-4-2-6 mm., IV, missing. Rostrum, segment I, 1-3-1-5 mm., II, 1-4-1-5 mm., 

 Ill, 0-7-0-8 mm., IV, 0-8-0-85 mm. Pronotum, length, 2-50-2-66 mm., width, 2-2-2-3 mm. 

 Hind femora, 5-7-6-4 mm. Hind tibia, 6-1-6-7 mm. Distance between ocelli, 0-5-0-6 mm., 

 distance between an ocellus and an eye, 0-6-0-7 mm. 



Very similar to o* in general appearance and colour ; posterior margin of seventh abdominal 

 sternum with a " U "-shaped median indentation. 



$ genitalia : First gonocoxae almost triangular in form, apices rounded ; intervalvular 

 sacs absent ; spermatheca round, bladder-shaped with a long and thick coiled tube (Text- 

 fig. 101). 



Holotype $, Brazil 

 A.M.N.H. 



State of Amazonas, Rio Cairy Uaapes, 1906 (Schmidt), 



Paratypes. 1^,1$, with data as holotype, A.M.N.H. ; Mexico : Tapanatepec, 

 3 miles north Oaxaca, 2 <J, 1 $, 22.xii.1955 (/. C. Schaffner), Ahmad Coll. ; 1 £ with 

 some data as above, in Coll. J. C. Schaffner ; Panama Canal Zone : Darien, 2 $ 

 (F. Geay), Mus. Hist. nat. Paris. 



This species seems to be distributed as far as Oaxaca (Mexico) in the northern part 

 of Neotropical region. 



This species is close to S. tipuloides (Degeer) and S. americana sp. n. but can be 

 separated by parallel-sided head, by uniformly thin, straight and long paraclypeae, 

 which are rounded at the apices and by the lack of black spots on the posterior 

 angles of pronotum. 



Figs. 101-105. Stenocoris braziliensis, $. 101, spermatheca ; 102, terminalia, ventral 

 view ; 103, first gonopophysis, ventral view ; 104, ovipositor, ventral view ; 105, 

 same, dorsal view. 



