ORDER RHYNCHOTA (HEMIPTERA) : BUGS 207 



having the thorax less emarginate in front, less produced at 

 the anterior angles, and less reflexed at the sides. 



Cimex hirundinis, Jenyns, is found in the nests of the 

 house-martin. It is more pubescent than C. lectularius ; 

 the abdomen is narrower, and more rounded at the tip ; the 

 antennas are comparatively short ; the thorax is much less 

 emarginate in front, and has its anterior angles but little 

 produced, and its sides hardly at all reflexed. 



Cimex pipistrelli, Jenyns, is found on certain bats. It 

 is very pubescent, almost hispid ; the abdomen is more 

 attenuated posteriorly ; the sides of the thorax are little 

 reflexed ; and the femora are more swollen. 



2. Family POLYCTENID^. Small wingless bugs (short 

 elytra are present) found on certain bats in South America. 

 They are not unlike bed-bugs, but have a narrower abdomen, 

 and 4 segments in the tarsi. 



3. Family Reduviid/E. A very large family of active, 

 rapacious land-bugs, found in all parts of the world, and 

 particularly numerous in the tropics. The head is usually 

 elongate ; the antenna are long, and consist of 4 segments ; 

 the eyes are placed well forward, with the ocelli, when 

 present, well in rear of them ; the beak usually, consists of 

 3 segments, is not very long, and is merely bent under the 

 head, not closely applied to the under-surface of the head, 

 in repose ; the elytra when present, have no cuneus ; the 

 scutellum is comparatively short ; and the legs are long with 

 a tarsus of 3 segments. In one subfamily, the NabidincB, the 

 front legs are raptorial, much like those of a Mantis. Several 

 species of Reduviidce are found in houses and attack man 

 at night ; the most notorious of them belong to the genus 

 Conorhinus (Fig. 92). 



Among Reduviidathe genus Conorhinus is distinguished by 

 the following combination of characters : — The head is long, 

 the 1st segment of the beak is very much shorter than the 2nd, 

 the antennae are inserted about midway between the eyes and 

 the tip of the snout, the ocelli are placed far apart, the pro- 

 sternum is broadly grooved, and the posterior tibiae are longer 

 than their femora. The species of Conorhinus are found in 

 North and South America, the West Indies, West Africa, 

 Madagascar, throughout the Oriental Region, and in China. 



