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11. Body clothed with rather longer silky hairs; third 

 and fourth segments of the antenna somewhat 

 more slender than the first and second; anterior 

 margin of the pronotum very slightly sinuate or 

 nearly straight in the middle, produced at the 

 lateral angles. This is the species which in Ameri- 

 can collections is known as C. hirundinis, the 

 latter being an old world form. It is found in 

 swallows nests. O. vicarius .... Oeciacus Stal 

 kk. Beak long, reaching to the posterior coxae; scutellum 

 rounded at the apex; lateral margins of the elytra 

 strongly reflexed, apical margin slightly sinuate 

 toward the middle; intermediate and posterior 

 coxae sub-contiguous. This species infests poultry 

 in southwest United States and in Mexico. H. 

 inodorus Haematosiphon Champ. 



160. Pselliopsis (Milyas) 

 cinctus. (xa). After 

 C. V. Riley. 



jj. Ocelli present, if rarely absent in the female, then the 

 tarsus has two segments; or if with three tarsal seg- 

 ments, the wing membrane with one or two cells. 



k. Beak four-segmented, or with two-segmented tarsi. 

 . . ISOMETOPID.E, MICROPHYSID.E and some CAPSID^E. 



kk. Beak three-segmented. 



I. Hemelytra with embolium; head horizontal, more 



or less conical; membrane with one to four veins, 



rarely wanting ANTHOCORID.35 



Several species of this family affecting man have 

 been noted, Anthocoris kingi and congolense, 

 from Africa and Lyctocoris campestris from 

 various parts of the world. Lyctocoris fitchii 

 Reuter (fig. 19 j), later considered by Reuter as 

 a variety of L. campestris, occurs in the United 

 States. 



II. Hemelytra without embolium. Superfamily ACAN- 



THIOIDEA ( = SALD^ Fieber and LEPTOPOD^E 

 Fieber) 



