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FAMILY XI. — LYGJEWJE. 



Family XL LYGMIBM Schilling, 1829, 37. 



The Chinch-bug Family. 



Small or medium sized oblong or narrowly oval Heteroptera, 

 usually dull in color and having the head subcorneal, convex 

 above, porrect or feebly declivent, usually inserted in the 

 thorax to the eyes ; antennae slender, four-jointed, longer than 

 head, inserted on the sides of the head slightly below the middle 

 of eyes; ocelli (except in Cnemodus) present; beak 4-jointed; 

 pronotum either horizontal or declivent in front, often more or 

 less constricted to form two distinct lobes; scutellum triangu- 

 lar, of moderate size ; elytra coriaceous, usually covering the 



Antenniferous 

 tubercle 



Fig. 69. Ligyrocoris diffusus tUhler) ; dorsal view illustrating Lyga?id structures. 

 Greatly enlarged. (After Barber in Hemiptera of Connecticut). 



