SUBFAMILY IX. — ZELIN^. 583 



from seven stations in Florida, including Jacksonville and Ft. 

 Myers. The Reduvius novenarius Say (I, 71) is a synonym. 

 Uhler (1876, 327; 1884, 282) states that: 



"In Maryland it dwells upon small pine trees and makes havoc with 

 the caterpillars and other insects which come within its reach. Both 

 sexes are formidable blood-sucking insects, able to conquer their neigh- 

 bors of whatever order, and not at all backward in punishing man for 

 sitting next their favorite trees. They glue their eggs to the bark of 

 linden and other trees in our southern parks and gardens, extruding at 

 the same time a gummy cement, which keeps the eggs in condition 

 throughout all the bad weather of winter." 



Seiss states (Ent. News, 1896, 58) that a captive specimen 

 of A. cristatus was fed a red-legged grasshopper, Mclanoplus 

 fcmur-nibnim, which struggled violently when first seized, but 

 almost instantly, after being pierced by the beak of the bug, 

 its struggles ceased and in thirty seconds the grasshopper was 

 dead. A "yellow-bear" caterpillar two inches in length lost all 

 evidences of life and motion in thirty-five seconds after being 

 seized by the bug. 



X. Acholla Stal, 1862, 445. 



Slender-bodied Reduviids of medium size having the front 

 lobe of head shorter than hind one and armed above with six to 

 ten short, stout erect spines, hind lobe narrowed in front of 

 middle to form a long subcylindrical neck ; pronotum with a 

 broad deep transverse constriction, the narrower front lobe 

 with two small discal tubercles and several along each side 

 margin, hind lobe densely rugose-granulate, its humeral angles 

 subacute ; scutellum with an obtuse basal V-shaped ridge, its 

 apex rounded ; elytra reaching tip of abdomen ; connexivum 

 narrowly exposed, strongly reflexed, its margin sinuate, male, 

 broadly exposed and angulate at middle, female ; front legs as 

 in generic key, their femora subequal to hind ones in length, 

 but much stouter. Genital plate of male suborbicular, convex, 

 its apex armed with a short, stout spine. Three species are 

 known, all from North America, one occurring in the eastern 

 states. 



557 (797). Acholla multispinosa (De Geer), 1773, 348. 



Elongate, widest behind the middle. Dull brownish-yellow or fus- 

 cous-brown, sparsely clothed with short grayish pubescence; legs and 

 basal joints of antenna? vaguely annulate with brown and yellow; con- 

 nexivum fuscous, its incisures pale. Joint 1 of beak subequal to 2. 

 Antennae inserted on front of head, joint 1 longest, 3 one-half the 



