No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: REDUVIIDAE. 689 



Arilus Burmeister. 



Prionotus Laporte. 



Prionidus Uhler. 



A. cristatus (Linnaeus). Wheel Bug. 



Cent. Ins. Rar., 16, 1763. 



This is a familiar species, which ranges south from New York 

 and west to California. Though no records are available, it 

 probably occurs in Connecticut. 



Acholla Stal. 



A. multispinosa (DeGeer). (PL xvi, 41 : Eggs, PI. xix, 1.) 



Memoires, iii, 348, pi. 35, fig. 10, 1773. 



This species is arboreal and preys upon all kinds of caterpillars. 



Windsor Locks, 1 Sept., 1903 (W. E. B.) ; Branford, 16 Sept., 1904 

 (H. W. W.) ; Westville, 7 Sept., 1905 (B. H. W.) ; Hartford, 22 Oct., 

 1906 (B. H. W.) ; New Canaan, 7 Oct, 1907 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 

 June, 1908 (E. B. Whittlesey) ; Manchester, 21 Sept., 1911 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Wallingford, 5 Sept., 191 1 (A. B. C.) ; 14 Aug., 1912 (D. J. C.) ; Mystic, 

 3 Sept., 1916 (M. P. Z.) ; Norwalk, 10 Oct., 1918 (M. P. Z.) ; Madison, 

 10 Aug., 1919 (K. F. C). 



Sinea Amyot and Serville. 



Hem., 375, 1843. 



Key to Species. 



Anterior prothoracic lobe spined on disk diadema 



Anterior prothoracic lobe with tubercles only on disk spinipes 



S. diadema (Fabricius). (PL xvi, 35.) 



Gen. Ins., 302, 1776. 



A common species on red clover. It is, in fact, perhaps the 

 commonest Reduviid in the East. It preys on caterpillars and 

 other soft-bodied insects which it catches on the clover. It ranges 

 from Canada to Southern Mexico, and in Connecticut has been 

 taken as follows : 



Canaan, 18 Aug., 1894 (A. P. M.) ; Salisbury, 27 Aug., 1904, Colebrook, 

 20 July, 1905 (W. E. B.) ; 1 Sept., 1911 (W. M. Wheeler) ; Prospect, 15 

 Aug., 1906 (W. E. B.) ; East Hartford, 9 Aug., 1904 (P. L. B.) ; Stafford, 

 24 Aug., 1905 (Mrs. W. E. Britton) ; East River, 29 Aug., 1908 (C. R. E.) ; 

 Meriden, 28 July, 1909 (A. I. B.) ; Pomfret, 22 Aug., 1912 (D. J. C.) ; 

 New Canaan, 11 Sept., 1914 (M. P. Z.) ; Kent, 10 Aug., 1918 (M. P. Z.). 

 S. spinipes (Herrich-Schaeffer). 



Wanz. Ins., viii, 82, fig. 851, 1848. 



This species is found on Long Island and there is no reason why 

 Connecticut should not harbor it. Its recorded range is from 

 Texas eastward. 



