692 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. 



B. uhleri Banks. 



Psyche, xvi, 47, 1909. 



This species described from North Carolina has been taken in 

 New York, under stones. It should be found in Connecticut. 



Emesa Fabricius. 

 Syst. Rhyng. 263, 1803. 

 E. brevipennis (Say), longipes DeGeer. (PL xvii, i.) 

 Am. Ent, iii, pi, 47, 1828. 



This, the commonest Eastern species of the group, is found in 

 shrubbery in the corners of fields, in old barns, etc. It is said to 

 prey upon spiders. 



New Canaan, 21 Sept, 1909 (A. I. B.), 5 Sept., 1916 (M. P. Z.) ; Man- 

 chester, 14 Sept., 1910 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 27 Aug., 1914 (M. P. Z.), 

 26 Sept., 1915 (W. E. B.). 



Family PHYMATIDAE. 



By Howard Madison Parshley, Sc.D. 



This group includes a moderate number of stout, roughly sculp- 

 tured species of medium size, closely related to the Reduviidae. 

 Head with rostral sulcus ; antennae four segmented ; the terminal 

 segment enlarged; ocelli present; rostrum apparently three seg- 

 mented (the true first rudimentary) ; membrane with numerous 

 and often reticulated veins ; front legs raptorial, the femora very 

 strongly thickened, the tarsi small and retractile or absent; tarsi 

 two segmented ; in the male the large sixth segment of the abdo- 

 men is terminal, above and below, the eighth forms an oval genital 

 plate covering the seventh and following. The species are pre- 

 daceous, often lying in wait in flowers for bees and other insect 

 prey. The species of our region fall in one subfamily. 



Subfamily Phymatinae. 



Scutellum small, triangular, not covering hemielytra; veins of 

 membrane much branched. Head short, with vertex anteriorly 

 produced ; antennae at rest received in grooves passing over eyes 

 and along sides of pronotum. Front tibiae folding back against 

 femora ; front tarsi present. One genus is known. 



Phymata Latreille, 



Pronotal margins generally widened posteriorly and more or less 

 irregularly sculptured ; dorsal surface with two longitudinal 

 carinae behind transverse impression. Corium large, with distinct 

 veins. Abdomen concave above, more or less broadened at fourth 

 segment. 



