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7. PYGOLAMPIS Germar 
Germar: Reise nach Dalm. p. 286; Burmeister, 246; Stal. (e)126, (b)149, 
(f)121; {=Ochetopus Hahn, i, 176.) 
Species of Pygolampis are distributed all over the world. Three of the eleven 
described species occur in America, one of them only in Panama and Guiana. 
The other two may be separated as follows: 
a. Head, thorax and scutellum and veins of the hemelytra gray-sericeous; 
antennae short with the first segment subequal in length to the ante- 
ocular part of the head; fore femora incrassate sericea 
aa. Body slightly sericeous above, antennae longer; with the first segment 
longer than the ante-ocular part of the head; fore femora only slightly 
incrassate pectoralis 
P. SERICEA Stal. Pennsylvania and temperate America. 
P. PECTORALIS Say (=P. fuscipennis Stal). Massachusetts to Florida, Texas 
and California. 
8. GNATHOBLEDA Stal 
Stal, (e)126, (f)121; Champion, 184. 
This genus may be recognized by a row of stout setiferous spines on each side 
of the post-ocular portion of the head beneath. The two North American 
species are “doubtfully distinct” (Champion). 
G. LiTiGiosA Stal. Mexico. 
G. TUMiDULA stal. Cuba, Texas and south. 
Stal: G. tumidula differs from the preceding species in the slightly narrower 
head, with its distinctly rounded and tumescent ante-ocular part, in the narrower 
posterior lobe of the thorax, and the median transverse vitta. 
9. SCHUMANNIA Champion 
Champion, 185. 
This genus was named from a single specimen secured at Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
It differs from related American genera in the long first joint of the rostrum, 
the armed fore femora, etc. 
S. MExicANA Champion is grayish ochreous, mottled with fuscous. It is 
18mm. long. Banks (c) records its presence in North Carolina. 
10. STENOPODA Laporte 
Laporte, Guer. Mag. Zool. 1832, p. 26; Stal, (b)149, (e)127, (f)122; Champion, 
187. 
Ante-ocular part of the head is two or three times as long as the post-ocular 
part; the first joint of the rostrum is slightly shorter than the two apical joints 
together; eyes slightly transverse. 
S. cuLiciFORMis Fahr. (Gerris [Cimex] culiciformis Fabr. =S. cinerea Lap. 
=sul)inermis Stal =cana Uhler) Cuba, Mexico, Texas, Florida, etc. The insect 
is gray with black spots on the elytra and black margins on the scutellum. 
