Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 119 1966 Number 3548 



NOTES ON ARADIDAE IN THE U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, IV 

 (HEMIPTERA: HETEROPTERA) ' 



By Nicholas A. Kormilev 



For the privilege of studying the unidentified Aradidae in the 

 collections of the U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 

 I wish to express my sincere appreciation to Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke, 

 former Chairman and presently Senior Scientist of the Department 

 of Entomology, to Dr. Richard C. Froeschner, Associate Curator in 

 Charge, Division of Hemiptera, and to the late Dr. Carl J. Drake, 

 Honorary Research Associate. The deposition of types of new- 

 species is stated with the descriptions. 



In the descriptions, 25 units equal 1 mm. The order of the figures 

 in the ratios follows the descriptive text leading to the ratios. 



Subfamily Aradinae Amyot and Serville, 1843 



Except for a few strong flying species of the luguhris group which 

 occur in the Southern Hemisphere, the subfamily Aradinae is holarctic 

 in distribution. The subfamily in North America was relatively 



1 Previous parts of this same series are: I, Kormilev, 1958, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 109, no. 3413, pp. 209-222; II, Kormilev, 1960, Journ. New York 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 68, pp. 36-47; III, Kormilev, 1964, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 115, no. 3483, pp. 245-258. 



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