No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: SCUTELLERIDAE. 781 



Occasionally found under stones and by sifting. 



New Haven, 15 May, 1905, 24 May, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Orange, 25 May, 

 1920 (B. H. W.). 



Tribe SEHIRINI. 



In the species of this tribe the head is destitute of marginal teeth 

 or setae and the anterior tibiae are cylindrical toward base, becom- 

 ing dilated and triangularly prismatic at apex. There is but one 

 known North American species. 



Sehirus Amyot and Serville. 



Species of moderate size, having the juga extending slightly 

 beyond apex of tylus ; mesosternum with a fine median carina ; 

 scutellum elongate, the sides nearly straight; apical margin of 

 corium oblique, nearly straight; anterior femora unarmed; and 

 the orificial canal broad and flat. 

 S. cinctus (Palisot de Beauvois). (PI. xviii, 4.) 



Ins. Rec. Afr. Am., 114, 1805. 



Bluish black, lateral margin of corium and more or less of the 

 connexival margin, outer face of tibiae, and usually a small spot at 

 apex of corium white and impunctate; second antennal segment 

 reddish; membrane brownish hyaline. Body beneath, black. 

 Form oval, broadened posteriorly. Length 5.7 mm. 



Often taken in general sweeping and reported to feed on the 

 wild raspberry. Hibernates as adult and is one of the first 

 Hemiptera to become active in the spring. 



New Haven, 20 July, 1908, 9 July, 191 1 (B. H. W.), 16 July, 1920 

 (M. P. Z.) ; Brookfield, 27 July, 1910 (E. L. D.) ; New Canaan, 30 Apr., 

 1919 (M. P. Z.) ; Cornwall, 11 July, 1920 (K. F. C). 



Family SCUTELLERIDAE. 



By Howard Madison Parshley, Sc.D. 



This extensive family is represented within our limits by but two 

 species, neither of which exhibit the brilliancy of lustre and orna- 

 mentation often characteristic of the forms inhabiting the warmer 

 regions of the world. The more important characters of the group 

 are as follows : hind wings with primary and subtended veins 

 separated by a considerable area which is broadest at middle, pro- 

 vided with a hamus ; body convex, generally both above and 

 below ; scutellum without f rena, very large and convex, covering 

 almost all of the abdomen and leaving exposed only the costal edge 

 of the corium when the wings are at rest ; tibiae v/ithout spines ; 

 mesosternum longitudinally sulcate; abdomen with six visible 

 ventral segments besides the external genitalia, which in the male 

 consist of a single genital plate, in the female of several smaller 

 plates accurately fitted together; ocelli present; rostrum four- 



