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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



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Hydrometra Latreille. 

 (Limnobates Burmeister.) 

 It contains only one species in the Northeastern United States. 

 H. martini Kirkaldy. (Fig. 152.) 

 Entom. xxxiii, 175, 1900. 



(H, lineata Say, Descr. Het. Hem., 35, 1832.) 



This linear form (fig. 152) is common in the marshes about the 

 East, or in still coves in placid ponds. It is carnivorous, like every 



Fig. 152. Hydrometra martini Kirkaldy, — (a) male genitalia, (b) dorsal 

 view of insect, (c) side view of head. All greatly enlarged. Drawing by 

 Dr. Philip Garman. 



other water bug known to the writer, and feasts on dying, dead 

 and decayed insects in the water. 1 It will also attack struggling 



1 Hungerf ord finds that it captures Entomostraca in the water with its 

 long rostral stylets. 



