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reject the name Cimezx, which Olivier proposed for the bedbug (or chinch) 
in 1789. ‘They also reject Pentatoma of this author, using Cimez instead. 
Hist. Nat. des Ins. Hemipt., pp. 149, 311. 
Fam. 15. Capside. This family contains Capsus, Phytocoris, and other 
genera of small and ornamental insects found upon plants, upon the juices 
of which they seem to feed. They run and fly well; they have no stem- 
mata, the ovipositor is contained in a groove of the abdomen, and the 
rostrum is four-articulate. 
Fam. 16. Lygeide. This family is allied to the preceding, the species 
are small or of medium size, and the colors varied. They inhabit plants. 
Pyrrhocoris apterus (pl. 80. fig. 60). 
Fam. 17. Coreide. The first articulation of the antennee is as long as 
the head or longer, and the last one thickened or lengthened in this family. 
These insects are large, of varied colors and active habits, and they 
frequent plants. In some species the hind feet have various forms and 
foliaceous expansions. Coryzus hyoscyami (pl. 80, fig. 61). 
Fam. 18. Scutelleride. Some of the members of this family have the 
scutellum so large as to cover the abdomen and wings. The body is 
robust, sometimes subglobular, the antenne long, and the feet slender. 
Some of the species are above the medium size, and many of them are 
ornamented with brilliant colors. They are vegetable feeders, sucking the 
juices of leaves, and some of them have glands which secrete a fluid with 
a very disagreeable scent. There are three sub-families corresponding to 
the genera Scutellera, Cimex, and Cydnus (fig. 62). The first have a 
very large scutellum; the second and third a smaller one; and the third is 
distinguished from the second by having spinose feet. Fabricius left the 
name Cimez for insects subsequently named Pentatoma, with which Amyot 
and Serville agree, although they admit a genus Pentatoma. Other authors 
improperly reject the name Cimex entirely. Cimex rufipes (pl. 80, fig. 
66). This species is also referred to the genus Tropicoris of Hahn, and to 
Pentatoma. Pentatoma juniperinus (fig. 63); P. baccarum (fig. 64) ; 
Acanthosoma (fig: 65). 
Orver 10. Srrepswerera. ‘This order of Kirby was subsequently named 
Rhipiptera by Latreille. It imcludes a limited number of insects of small 
size, Which are parasitic in the bodies of Hymenoptera. The anterior 
wings are replaced by a kind of twisted halteres, and the posterior ones are 
large and folded like a fan. The mouth has two small awl-shaped jaws, 
and two bi-articulate antenne ; the eyes are large, prominent, and lateral, 
with a few large facets, and these separated by partitions raised above 
their surface. The antennez are simple or furcate, with few articulations ; 
the thorax very robust, the metathorax very long, removing the posterior 
feet far back. The tarsi have from two to four articulations. Specimens 
of certain wasps and bees may be sometimes seen with the abdomen 
distorted, and an examination discloses one or more heads of a minute 
insect sticking from between the segments, which belong to these parasites 
when near the time of their appearance.  Siebold -has discovered the 
» Winged individuals to be males, and the females to be without wings, and 
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