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368 (417). ANEURUS fiskei Heidemann, 1904a, 164. 



Oblong-oval. Dark reddish-brown, finely granulose; middle of 

 corium usually with a transverse yellow spot. Head slightly longer than 

 broad; tylus reaching apical third of first antennal; antenniferous spines 

 short, acute, curved; antennae slender, about twice the length of head, 

 basal joint oval, very stout, second similar but more slender and shorter, 

 third and fourth cylindrical, the latter slightly longer than second and 

 third united. Pronotum with distinct transverse impression, margins 

 feebly sinuate in front of middle ; disk very finely granulose, the hind por- 

 tion vaguely rugose. Scutellum slightly wider than long, sides broadly 

 rounded from base to apex, disk with a fine but distinct carina each side. 

 Genital segment of male oblong, convex, obtuse, slightly surpassing the 

 small spatulate lobes. Length, 3.6 — 4 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 16 ; one male beaten from prickly 

 ash, Xanthoxylum americanum Mill. Staten Island, N. Y., June 

 28 (Davis) . Described from Tryon, N. Car., and recorded from 

 Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Georgia. 

 Heidemann (loc. cit.) states that the types "were collected be- 

 neath bark of decaying branches of sourwood (Oxydendrum) 

 and also beneath loose bark scales on the dry branches of syca- 

 more." At White Plains, N. Y., Bueno (1908a, 227) found it 

 under bark of dead hardwood trees, oaks, hickory, etc., pref- 

 erably saplings and smaller branches. 



Family X. NEIDID^E Kirkaldy, 1902, 302. 



The Stilt-bugs. 



Elongate, very slender Heteroptera of a pale color, having 

 the head conical, porrect, declivent in front ; eyes small, distant 

 from its base ; ocelli present ; vertex with a transverse sulcus in 

 front of them ; antennae four-jointed, elongate, filiform, elbowed 

 at the end of the very long first joint, the latter and the femora 

 clavate, fourth joint much the shortest, fusiform ; beak slen- 

 der, four-jointed, reaching or exceeding middle coxae; pronotum 

 much longer than wide, convex behind, the disk with margins 

 carinate and with a more or less entire median carina; scu- 

 tellum very small, often armed ; elytra long, narrow, the costal 

 edge of the corium prolonged much beyond the middle of the 

 membrane ; legs very long and slender, more or less thickly 

 beset with short bristles; metathorax (in our eastern species) 

 with a distinct osteolar canal or groove running from the coxal 

 cavity outward to an osteolar tubercle which is sometimes long 

 and spine-like; tarsi three- jointed. 



