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corium more or less, particularly the veins, pale yellow. The 

 antennae have the third and fourth segments brown. The 

 enlarged fore femora are armed with three or four minute pre- 

 apical teeth or tubercles, with two long setae between these and the 

 middle. As in the preceding species a long seta is set near 

 anterior angle of the pronotum. 



This is another one of the species found commonly by sifting 

 dead leaves or collected beneath stones, sticks, etc., on the ground. 

 Brachypterous forms are more common. 



New Haven, 26 Feb., 191 1 (A. B. C). 



Family NEIDIDAE. 



By Howard Madison Parshley, Sc.D. 



A few species of moderate size and extremely attenuated shape, 

 with long filiform appendages, the first antennal segment and 

 femora clavate. Head constricted before eyes, which are distant 

 from pronotum; ocelli present; antennae four-segmented, the 

 fourth segment short and thick; rostrum long, four-segmented; 

 scutellum very small ; hemielytra composed of corium, clavus, and 

 membrane, the latter with four or five veins ; tarsi three-segmented. 

 Male with a single large convex genital plate; female with two 

 longitudinally divided genital segments. These insects are 

 phytophagous and live on low herbage, often in the undergrowth 

 of woods. 



Key to Subfamilies. 



Head elongate; vertex produced anteriorly in a long porrect pro- 

 cess over the tylus Neidinae 



Head shorter ; vertex without long process Metacanthinae 



Subfamily Neidinae. 



The species of this group are characterized by the long frontal 

 process, and the coriaceous and punctate corium, which tapers 

 gradually toward apex. One genus occurs in our region. 



Neides Latreille. 



Head above, pronotum, scutellum, and abdominal margins with- 

 out spines ; orificial canal slightly elevated ; ventral surface of 

 abdomen punctate. One species occurs within our Hmits. 

 N. muticus (Say). 



Het. New Harm., 13, 1832. 



Pale yellowish brown ; eyes and fourth antennal segment dark 

 brown; sternal region black; membrane with faint median dark 

 streak. Form parallel. Length 7-9 mm. Taken by sweeping 

 underbrush. 



Meriden, 29 Apr., 1907 (B. H. W.) ; Woodbridge, 12 May, 1907 

 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 30 July, 1909 (B. H. W.). 



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