No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: REDUVIIDAE. 68l 



Reduvius Fabricius. 

 Syst. Ent, 729, 1775. 

 R. personatus (Linnaeus). (PL xvi, 36.) (Fig. 156.) 



Syst. Nat., Edn. x, i, 446, 1758. 



This is the more or less famous masked bed-bug hunter, noted 

 for covering itself, as a nymph, with lint and dust in houses, and 

 thus disguised as a bit of sweeping, destroying its unsavory fellow 

 bug. It flies to light, and is in general a nocturnal bug. 



Litchfield, June, 1909 (L. B. W.) ; Wallingford, 25 July, 1910, 191 1 

 (D. J. C.) ; Lyme, 4 July, 1911, (A. B. C.) ; Glastonbury, 5 July, 1913 

 (L. B. R.) ; New Haven, 1 July, 1917 (Q. S. L.). 



Fig. 157. Melanolestes abdominalis H enrich- Schaeffer, — dorsal 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. Philip Garman. 



