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spherical from above ; eyes unusually large, enclosing the sides of the 

 head, feebly convex, not prominent ; vertex triangular, narrowed towards 

 the base, at which point the carina is distinctly elevated ; face oblong, 

 curving backwards beneath, convex on the transverse diameter ; lower 

 division of front triangular above, sub-conical below, with the tylus 

 small and narrow. Antennae attached beneath the inner angle of the 

 eyes, the basal joint very short, thick, but not as stout as the second 

 joint, the second gradually thickened towards the tip, as long as the ver 

 tex and pronotum united, the third and fourth very slender, conjointly 

 not as long as the second, the third longer than the fourth, and the 

 fourth subfusiform, acute at tip. Rostrum reaching almost to the tip of 



c ^ d 



FIG. 7. Heidemannia cixiiformis Uhler : a, female ; b, front view of 

 head ; c, side view of head ; d, antenna (original). 



the venter, the third joint compressed, fourth joint acute. Anterior sin- 

 uated border of prosternum raised into a high collar ; mesosternum with 

 a tumid prominence. Pronotum transverse, depressed each side, with 

 the lateral margins oblique and recurved, almost concurrent with the 

 sides of the head ; the anterior margin arcuated, posterior margin sinua- 

 ted on the middle, with the humeral border oblique. Scutellum large 

 and flat, wider at base than the sinus of the pronotal margin. Hemelytra 

 flat, thick, opaque, of nearly sub-equal width from inner angle of clavus 

 to base of membrane, costal margin feebly curved, broadly reflexed, 

 with a long embolium beneath ; cuneus large, well separated from the 

 corium, scarcely incised, forming a continuous oblique line with the 



