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pronotum mostly black 3. taurus Fabr.. 
bb. Legs and pronotum pale, pronotum sometimes with two black vittae 
4. flavicans Am. et S. 
1. R. FusciPES Stal. i=Isocondylus fuscipes Stal) is common in western 
Mexico, scarcer southward. 
2. R. NiGEONOTATA Stal. Mexico. 
3. R. TAUEus Fal)r. (=Zelus lineatus Am. et S.) is found north as far as 
Philadelphia and is common in Texas, Mexico, South America, and the West 
Indies. The pronotal spines are very long. 
4. R. FLAVICANS Am et 8 . (=Zelu§ flavicans Am. et S.=Z. lateralis H. 
-Sch.= ochraceus ll.-Sch.=varipes H.-Sch.) Common in Mexico and South 
America. South of Mexico it is more often seen than R. taurus. 
Mr. Hart has found this species in Illinois. 
41. ROCCONOTA Stal. 
Stal (f) 69, 79; Champion, 272. 
Champion considers this genus as doubtfully separable from Repipta. He 
gives half a dozen more or less valuable characters as distinguishing points. 
Four species occur within the limits of the territory covered by this paper. 
a. Scutellum raised along the middle posteriorly, postscutellum more or less 
produced at the apex, not clothed with agglutinated tomentum. 
b. Anterior lobe of pronotum with two prominent conical tubercles; ab- 
dominal segments one and two spinous at outer apical angles 
1. rufotestacea Champ. 
bb. Anterior lobe of pronotum unarmed. 
c. Abdomen with first segment only spinose; body closely pubescent 
beneath apex in spots 2. annulicornis Stal 
cc. Abdomen unarmed at the sides; scutellum produced into an up- 
wardly curved spine 3. tuherculigera Stal 
aa. Scutellum flattened, postscutellum not produced at apex, clothed with a 
dense, white agglutinated tomentum; anterior lobe of pronotum with two 
prominent conical tubercles; abdominal segments 1 to 4 strongly spinose 
at outer apical angles 4. octispina Stal 
l. R. EUFOTESTACEA Champion. Mexico. 
2. R. ANNULicoENis Stal. Texas to Lower California and south. Stal called 
this insect Heza but the lack of a tubercle on the mesopleura causes Champion 
to change this placing. 
3. R. TUBEECULIGEEA Stal. Mexico. 
4. R. OCTISPINA Stal. Mexico. This species “should perhaps be separated 
from the genus, it having a differently formed scutellum.’ —Champion. 
42. FITCHIA Stal. 
Stal (f) 79. 
The two species of Fitchia are only found north of Mexico and east from 
Texas. The winged individuals of the two species are very similar, differing 
in the pronotal spines. 
1. F. spiNOsuLA Texas and eastward. Pronotum armed on the pos- 
terior lobe with two short spines on the disc and with a spine at each of the 
lateral angles. 
