82 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [1890 



prominent, long, arched, tapering at tip, and having the bound- 

 aries deeply incised; antennae stout, a little longer than the 

 corium, inserted near the lower end of the eyes, the basal joint 

 shorter than head, the second subfusiform, as long as the pro- 

 notum and vertex united, the third and fourth setaceous, 

 abruptly slender, together much shorter than the second ; eyes 

 nearly vertical, prominent, ovate, in contact with the angle of 

 the pronotum, rostrum very slender, reaching beyond the middle 

 coxae, the basal joint wide, compressed, longer than the head ; 

 occiput with a blunt collum. Pronotum trapezoidal, wider 

 than long, strongly curving down forwards and laterally, the 

 lateral margins distinct, obliquely narrowing anteriorly, the 

 anterior angles bluntly rounded, the anterior margin not quite 

 as wide as the head and eyes, sinuated and thickened, basal 

 margin a little concave. Anterior rim of the prosternum cari- 

 nate, the flaps large, and prominently arched. Legs stout, the 

 posterior femora long, broader and more compressed than the 

 others, marked with rows of brown dots ; tibiae very slender, 

 armed with very feeble remote spines ; basal joint of tarsi very 

 short, the other two much longer, subequal. Scutellum short, 

 almost flat, acuminate, widely uncovered at base. Hemelytra 

 complete, costal margin regularly arcuated from base to the 

 end of the cuneus, clavus narrow, the posterior portion acutely 

 narrowing to the tip ; the cuneus short, distinctly but not 

 deeply incised, with the outer margin more distinctly arcuated. 

 Venter polished. 



Closely related to Phylus limbatus Fieb. 



B. Van Duzeii. New sp. 



Oblong-ovate, highly polished, diluted-rufous, or pale chest- 

 nut brown, with the head pronotum and pleural pieces pale 

 rufous. Eyes, venter, membrane, apical two-thirds of the second 

 joint of antennae, tylus and base of rostrum above nigro- 

 piceous. Head smooth, bald, having a very obsolete puncture 

 on the face, vertex very moderately convex, depressed above the 

 antennae next the eyes ; front abruptly contracted, the tylus 

 cylindrical, curved somewhat like the beak of a parrot, thick 

 and very highly polished ; antennae testaceous, the second joint 



