No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: TERMATOPHYLIDAE. 665 



living ones in force if necessary. Its eggs are fascinating in struc- 

 ture ; long and spindle-formed, the chorion is coarsely reticulated, 

 and the eggs themselves are fastened end on by a sort of pedicel to 

 any convenient place. The period of emergence varies between 

 nine and nineteen days according to temperature. There are five 

 nymphal stages in about fifteen days, or say about twenty-five to 

 thirty-five days for the life-cycle, allowing for three to five broods 

 in the course of a summer. 



This species has been recorded from Ontario, Canada, to 

 Mexico. 



Family TERMATOPHYLIDAE. 



By Howard Madison Parshley, Sc.D. 



This family includes a few small species, resembling the Miridae 

 in some respects. The head is horizontal, truncate at apex ; 

 antennae four segmented, the second segment often enlarged, 

 rostrum four segmented ; the first segment short, scarcely longer 

 than thick, extending at most to middle of eyes. Hemielytra con- 

 sisting of corium, clavus, embolium, cuneus, and membrane, the 

 latter with one large cell. Hind wings without hamus. Tarsi 

 three segmented, without arolia. Genitalia much as in the 

 Anthocoridae. One genus occurs in North America. 



Hesperophylum Reuter and Poppius. 



A single species is known. 

 H. heidemanni Reuter and Poppius. 



Ofv. Finska Vet. Soc. Forh., liv, Afd. A., 17, 1912. 



Black ; pronotum at base and hemielytra dark brown, scutellum 

 yellowish white, darker at apex, membrane smoky brown with 

 lateral light spots ; third and fourth antennal segments, rostrum in 

 part, and the tibiae yellowish white. 



Vertex, in female, not quite twice as wide as an eye. Second 

 antennal segment about five times as long as the first, somewhat 

 longer than the pronotum; the fourth about as long as the first, 

 somewhat longer than the third. Length 4 mm. 



This species was described from a single female specimen taken 

 on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and has not since been 

 found in New England. 



Family ANTHOCORIDAE. 



By Howard Madison Parshley, Sc.D. 



This family includes a moderate number of small and incon- 

 spicuous forms living in flowers, under bark, in houses, in birds' 

 nests, etc. ; many are known to be of predaceous habit. Form 

 flattened, ovate ; head long, horizontal ; ocelli present ; bucculae 

 lacking. Hemielytra, when present, with distinct embolium and 



