616 FAMILY XXIII. — CIMICID;£. 



thirds strongly convex, hind margin broadly concave, humeral angles 

 prominent, nodulose, the margin behind them more reflexed than in fi-ont. 

 Corium with only the apical third and three veins coriaceous, remainder 

 membranous. Length, 2 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 24. One specimen taken from a ditch 

 along the margin of a pond in pine woodland one-half mile from 

 bay front. Apparently a neotropical submaritime species which 

 was described from Grenada and has not before been recorded 

 from this country. Uhler's types were taken in August and 

 September from a stream, and on a pool among grass and weeds 

 at 50 feet above the sea. 



Family XXIII. CIMICID^E Latreille, 1804, 235. 



The Bedbug Family. 



Flat, broadly oval species of moderate size having the head 

 broad, declivent in front ; tylus stout, oblong, widened in front, 

 produced in front of base of antennae; beak short, stout, 3- 

 jointed (fig. 154) ; antennas slender, 4-jointed; ocelli absent; 



eyes very small, protruding; 

 elytra reduced to mere pads on 

 the base of the abdomen; 

 scutellum short, broadly tri- 

 angular, its apex acute ; legs 

 short, subequal, tarsi 3- 

 jointed, claws without arolia. 



The family comprises only a 

 few widely distributed species 



Fig. 154. Dorsal view of beak of bed- . . , . . . . . 



bug with setae removed from sheath. Which are paraSltlC On birds 



(After Lugger). , . . , . 



and mammals, the best known 

 of which is the ordinary bedbug. Much has been written on 

 this household pest. The principal available literature pertain- 

 ing to it and our other species is by Uhler, 1884 ; Marlatt, 1896 ; 

 Osborn, 1892, 1896, and Horvath, 1910, 1912. One of the two 

 subfamilies is represented in the eastern states by two genera. 



Subfamily I. CIMICIN^ Van Duzee, 1916, 33. 



The members of this subfamily are distinguished by having 

 the head not inserted in thorax to eyes ; beak reaching between 

 the front coxae ; elytra with outer margins not reflexed ; middle 

 and hind coxae well separated. 



