566 FAMILY XIX. — REDUVIID^E. 



Van Duzee (1914a, 13) reports it as "common everywhere 

 on flowers from May to October," in southern California. The 

 Rednvius linitaris Say (I, 355) is a synonym. 



539 (765). Apiomerus SPISSIPES (Say), 1825, 328; I, 72; II, 250. 



Form of crassipes but smaller. Head, disk of pronotum in part, and 

 scutellum except hind margin, black; parts of the disk of pronotum, 

 corium, narrow margin of connexivum, coxa?, femora, basal halves of 

 tibiae and genital plate of male, dull red ; antenna?, membrane of elytra, 

 connexivals in great part, tarsi and apical halves of tibia?, fuscous-brown; 

 narrow basal margin of pronotum and apex of scutellum dull yellow. 

 Length, 13 — 15 mm. 



Dunedin, Lake Wales, Sarasota, Ft. Myers and Key West, 

 Fla., Jan. 28 — April 27 (W. S. B.) ; listed from eight other sta- 

 tions in that State. Taken by sweeping low huckleberry and 

 other shrubs; also while crawling or flying along roadsides. 

 Its range is more southwestern than that of crassipes, extend- 

 ing from Florida to Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, Mexico and 

 Costa Rica. Recorded also from Colorado. Say's types were 

 from Arkansas, where he says it "occurred in some plenty." 

 Morgan (1907, 51) states that nymphs kept in captivity in 

 Texas and furnished a variety of insects, fed mainly upon 

 Coleoptera and Diptera, and that one adult, when captured, 

 inserted its beak in the end of his thumb. "The pain at first 

 was not so great as that from the sting of a bee or wasp, but 

 in a few moments it was much greater, continued unabated for 

 over an hour and the spot was tender to the touch for two 

 weeks." The red hue of the pronotum varies greatly in extent, 

 sometimes covering three-fourths of its area. 



Subfamily IX. ZELIN^E Fracker, 191fT 222, 237. (Harpactorinx 



Am. & Serv.) 



Elongate, usually slender bodied Heteroptera having the head 

 porrect, its front lobe usually much shorter than hind one ;"'' 

 eyes small, not prominent; ocelli small, placed rather close 

 together' 1 ' near front margin of hind lobe of head ; pronotum 

 narrowed in front, its hind lobe often spinose; elytra usually 

 entire ; connexivum usually narrowly or not at all exposed ;' ;; ' 

 front legs long and slender, their tibise not thickened, but feebly 

 if at all raptorial ; tarsal claws usually toothed or appendiculate. 

 This subfamily is the largest of the Reduviidae, more than 700 



''•■'These characters do not hold good in Rhynocoris and Pselliopus, which are 

 aberrant genera of the subfamily. 



