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3a. SAICODES Uhler 
S. ANNULATus Ufiler is recorded (Uhler, d) as having come from the western 
United States. No descriptions of genus and species seem to have been made. 
It will be necessary for some one to find the insect in one of Uhler’s former col- 
lections and publish a description of it. 
4. TAGALIS Stal 
Stal, (a)76, (e)130, (f)124; Champion, 179. 
This genus is easily separable from other Saicinae by the spines on the an- 
terior tibiae and femora. A second species from Panama has been described by 
Champion. 
T. iNORNATA Stal (=8aica annulipes Uhler) is described with the genus. 
The femora are yellowish, usually with a narrow brown or black annulus 
before the tip. Range is south from southern Mexico. 
5. ONCEROTRACHELUS Stal 
Stal, (e)130, (f)124; Champion, 180. 
Only one of the two known species of this genus occurs in North America. 
O. {Reduvius) acuminatus Say (p. 356):“Body yellow, hairy; joint 1 of 
rostrum longer than joints 2 and 3 together; scutellum with three elevated 
lines and terminating in an acuminated spine; anterior lobe of the pronotum 
longer than the posterior.” Range includes New Jersey, South Carolina, In- 
diana, Mexico and Panama. 
Subfamily STENOPODINAE 
6. PNIRONTIS Stal 
Stal, (b)149, (e)126, (f)120; Champion, 181; {=Gentromelus Fieber, pp. 42, 
151.) 
Stars later references to this genus only mention the characters given in the 
key. Champion says that the first joint of the antenna has a stout, rigid 
spiniform prolongation extending beyond the insertion of the second joint, joints 
2-4 which are slender, folding backward under the head and being received 
with the rostrum along the under side of the head in a groove. 
a. Tibiae armed on anterior edge with three spines only. 
b. Basal joint on antennae spinose beneath; genae not prominent. iw/irma 
bb. Basal joint of antennae unarmed; genae very prominent languida 
aa. Tibiae possessing a long terminal spur near the third spine on the 
anterior edge modesta 
P. MODESTA Banks (b) from Virginia is a pale greenish yellow species re- 
sembling certain South American forms. The latter, however, possess several 
additional tibial spines. 
P. iNFiRMA Stal is distinguishable from the other North American species by 
the basal joint of the antennae being spinose beneath and the genae not being 
prominent. Illinois, Carolina, Mexico, Panama. 
P. LANGUIDA Stal has very prominent genae and the basal joint of the anten- 
nae is unarmed. Carolina, Texas, Mexico, etc. 
