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is the longest, but does not nearly reach to the base of the gula, 

 it is one third longer than the second and twice and two-fifths 

 as long as the third which just reaches the base of the fore 

 trochanters; the first segment is also nearly twice as long as 

 the fourth. The pronotum is subconvex, narrowly reflexed 

 laterally and wide so behind; there is a collar in front which 

 narrows laterally. The collar and the hind lobe are separated 

 from the polished main lobe by deep impressions. The hind 

 margin of the pronotum is one tenth wider than the head and 

 eyes, and two-ninths wider than the pronotum anteriorly. The 

 pronotum is one half wider behind than its middle length, the 

 main lobe being four times and four-fifths as long as the hind 

 lobe, the lateral margins are not sinuate, the coxae are all 

 nearly contiguous. 



Y Clerada apicicomis Sign. 



This bug is common in old houses, in neglected boxes, 

 drawers, etc. I suspect that it feeds on Lepisma and perhaps 

 on small Blattids. 



FiTial ni/mph: Head brown, laterally dark fuscous, under- 

 side yellowish brown. Labium, sterna and legs yellowish- 

 brown. Antennae dark fuscous, basal half of second segment 

 paler, fourth yellowish white. Pronotum dark purplish 

 pescous, scutellum, etc., paler, with a pale median line from 

 apical margin of pronotum to hind angle of scutellum. The 

 lateral margin of pronotum yellowish brown, the same parts 

 as well as the posterior parts of the tegminal pads are brown, 

 the rest of the latter dark fuscous. Abdomen sanguineous, the 

 flaps blackish. 



The head is similar to that of the adult, but the eyes are a 

 little smaller. The form of the pronotum is very different, the 

 lateral margins being reflected. The hind margins still more 

 widely so. The pronotum is twice as wide at the base than 

 at the apical margin, lateral margins slightly convexly rounded 

 (not concavely sinuate). The labium reaches to the middle 

 coxae, the first segment reaching to the anterior margin of the 

 eye, the second not as far as the base of the head, the third to 

 the middle of the fore trochanter. The third segment is the 

 longest and is more than one-half longer than the first, a little 

 more than twice as long as the second and is three times as 

 lonsr as the fourth. The antennae are four times as long as the 

 pronotum, the second segment is about three-fourths longer 



