564 FAMILY XIX. — REDUVIID^E. 



life which occur beneath the same cover. Say mentions it from 

 Georgia and Florida, but not from Indiana, though I found it 

 in numbers about New Harmony where he collected for several 

 years. Brimley (1907, 437) found it not uncommon at Raleigh, 

 N. Car., "under bark of dead pines in winter ; both nymphs and 

 adults being then found but the latter more abundantly." At 

 Ormond and R. P. Park, Fla., I found only nymphs in March. 



Subfamily VIII. APIOMERIN/E Amyot & Serville, 1843, 350. 



Rather stout, medium sized oval species, having the head 

 porrect, with hind portion short, broad, the ocelli set very wide 

 apart on its sides ; tylus slightly surpassing cheeks ; antennae 

 inserted between the eyes ; joint 2 of beak longer than 1 and 3 

 united ; pronotum constricted in front of middle, its lobes con- 

 vex, the front one the narrower and with a median impressed 

 line terminating near base in a large fovea ; scutellum short, 

 broad, its apex rounded or subtruncate ; elytra entire, reaching 

 or slightly surpassing tip of abdomen ; front and middle legs 

 short, stout, thickly beset with stiff bristles, their tarsi very 

 slender, retractile, folding back in slits on the upper side of 

 the swollen apex of tibiae. Genital plate of male suborbicular, 

 convex, enclosed by the union of the last dorsal and ventral, 

 its apex usually with a pair of slender style-like appendages. 

 One genus is known and represented in our territory. 



I. Apiomerus Laporte, 1832, 82. 



In this genus the front lobe of head is prolonged, with sides 

 (cheeks) declivent and tylus forming a ridge along the crest; 

 joint 1 of antennae stout, but slightly surpassing tip of tylus, 

 2 and 4 subequal, each one-third shorter than 3 ; hind lobe of 

 pronotum subpentagonal, its lateral angles rounded ; connex- 

 ivum widely exposed. The females have the ventral surface of 

 abdomen thickly pilose with stiff erect hairs and the hind tibiae 

 compressed and sinuous before the apex, their apical third 

 furnished with a brush of dense stiff hairs. They have the 

 power of exuding a viscid fluid from these bristles which is 

 supposed to aid them in holding their prey or perhaps, in part, 

 to glue their eggs to a leaf or other support. In the males the 

 ventral surface is but sparsely pilose and the tibial brush much 

 shorter. Twenty or more species are known, mostly from 

 Tropical America, two occurring in our territory. 



