Aradide. 137 
On Iyosotis, etc., in damp and swampy localities, and 
margins of ponds; Woking, Ilfracombe ; Norfolk, Hdwards ; 
Coleshill, Sutton Park, Blatch ; Hastings district, Shalford, 
Butler ; Tilgate, Wimbledon, New Forest, Champion ; 
Cowbridge, South Wales, Billups; Glanvilles Wootton, 
Dale; Perth, B. White. 
ARADIDZ. 
A family of few genera, of which we have only two in 
this country, which occur under bark, in fungoid growths, 
ete. It is allied to the Tingidide in many respects, but 
differs from it in the general form, the large scutellum, 
the position of the anterior coxe, which are inserted in the 
disc of the prosternum and not at its base, and the absence 
of reticulation or cell-like puncturation ; the antenniferous 
tubercles are large and angular, or spine-like, the cheeks 
are very short, and the central lobe of the face forms an 
elongate blunt process; ocelli absent; the antenne are 
short and rugose, and the rostrum variable in length, very 
short in Aneuwrus ; the pronotum transverse; the elytra 
produced and rounded at the shoulders ; tarsi two-jointed. 
(2) 1. Flat, pronotum with longitudinal keels, scu- 
tellum angulated . ; A : ; a 
(1) 2. Very flat, pronotum without keels, scutellum 
rounded . 5 ° : a A : . ANEURUS. 
ARADUS, Fab. 
Flat, surface finely rugose; eyes prominent, head con- 
tracted behind them; antenniferous tubercles spine-like ; 
antenne thick, joints truncate at the apex; rostrum longer 
than the head; sides of the pronotum in our British species 
reflexed, foliaceous, and more or less ragged ; the scutellum 
is long, with its sides raised; the elytra are dilated at the 
base, the sides converging in sinuate lines so as to leave the 
connexivum uncovered ; the apical margin of the corium is 
more or less angularly emarginate ; the membrane is large, 
reaching almost to the apex of the abdomen ; the connexivum 
ARaDUs. 
