. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 5 58 IIEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA chap. antennae and legs of its members (Fig. 270). Altogether four- teen sub-families are recognised, the most extensive one being Harpactorides, including a great variety of remarkable forms; in the South American genus Notocyrtus (better known as Saccoderes, Fig. 257), the prothorax is swollen and covers the body to a greater or less extent in the fashion of a hood. In Yolinus and Eidycs the coloration is the most conspicuous system that could be devised, the sides of the abdomen (connexivum) being expanded into bright-red
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 5 58 IIEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA chap. antennae and legs of its members (Fig. 270). Altogether four- teen sub-families are recognised, the most extensive one being Harpactorides, including a great variety of remarkable forms; in the South American genus Notocyrtus (better known as Saccoderes, Fig. 257), the prothorax is swollen and covers the body to a greater or less extent in the fashion of a hood. In Yolinus and Eidycs the coloration is the most conspicuous system that could be devised, the sides of the abdomen (connexivum) being expanded into bright-red lobes on which are placed patches of polished-black. The most remarkable form of Eeduviid is, perhaps, one from China (Fig. 271) of considerable size, of great fragility, and greatly resembling, like some Emesides, a daddy-long-legs fly, though it does not belong to the Emes- ides. It is an altogether anomalous form. According to Seitz there is found on the Corcovado in Brazil a Eeduviid that exactly resembles one of the dark stinging-wasps of the genus Fe2}sis, and the bug makes the same sort of movements as the wasp does, though these are of a kind quite different from those of ordinary * Although the attacks of Eedu- viidae on animals are usually con- ^ „_, „ . , , , . fined to the smaller and more i*IG. 'Irl.—liggs of Andochus cinga- i • i knsis. "The eggs are attached defenceless kmds, yct this IS by no to a leaf aud to each other by a j^ea^jjg invariably the case; there viscid substance ; eggs red, the . "^ ' cover pale yellow, with the club are in fact uumerous species that do F^^'preJ;!"' *'P-"-^^^- ""''^ "^ not hesitate to attack man himself. Several species of Beduvius do this in Southern Europe, and are frequently met with in houses. R. IjersoncUus is the only species of the genus in England; though far from common anywhere, it is sometimes found in houses, and is said to destroy the common bed-bug; it is able to pass
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