FAMILY XXVIII. — TERMATOPHYLID^E. 659 



Family XXVIII. TERMATOPHYLID^E Reuter, 1884a, 218. 



Small elongate-oval species having the head longer than 

 broad, declivent in front, its apex truncate or obtusely pointed ; 

 ocelli wanting; beak 4-jointed; antennae much longer than 

 head, 4-jointed, the last two joints more slender than the basal 

 ones ; pronotum trapezoidal, longer than head ; elytra entire 

 with the usual divisions including embolium and cuneus pres- 

 ent ; membrane with a single large cell ; cell of inner wings 

 without a hamus ; hind femora compressed, movable only in- 

 ward and outward; tarsi 3-jointed, claws without arolia; stig- 

 mas located on the sides of ventrals 2 — 7. Genital segment of 

 female split at middle and enclosing a sheath for the ovipositor 

 as in the Anthocoridae. The family is a small one comprising 

 only four genera and about 10 species. One genus, represented 

 by a single species, occurs in this country. 



I. Hesperophylum Reuter & Poppius, 1912, 16. 



In this genus, mainly characterized as above, the head is 

 much longer than broad, strongly declivent and pointed ; eyes 

 glabrous, separated by a narrow groove and, viewed from 

 above, with inner margin concave ; tylus long and narrow ; 

 beak reaching beyond middle coxae, joint 1 very short, reaching 

 only middle of eyes, 2 as long as 3 and 4 united ; pronotum with 

 basal margin broadly rounded, nearly three times as wide as 

 front one, hind lobe convex, moderately declivent forward, 

 rather thickly and strongly punctate, front lobe not punctate, 

 closely and finely wrinkled, without apical stricture, transverse 

 impression or calli ; scutellum flat, smooth, about as long as 

 broad ; elytra smooth, surpassing abdomen, cuneus as wide at 

 base as long; membrane with cell almost semicircular; osteolar 

 channel straight, not margined. One species is known. 



636 (874). Hesperophylum heidemanni Reuter & Poppius, 1912, 17. 



Oblong-oval. Black, strongly shining, the front portion of pronotum 

 alone dull; basal half of pronotum and elytra blaekish-brown ; scutellum 

 yellowish-white, the tip darker; membrane fuscous-brown, strongly iri- 

 descent, a paler spot near tip of cuneus; edges of propleura, beak in 

 part, and tibiae pale yellow, the basal halves of tibiae somewhat darker. 

 Antennae with joints 1 and 2 black, 1 reaching slightly beyond middle of 

 tylus, 2 strongly thickened, its sides flattened, slightly longer than pro- 

 notum, nearly five times as long as 1, 3 and 4 pale yellow, 4 about as long 

 as 1, slightly longer than 3. Vertex not quite twice as broad as the 

 diameter of the eyes. Length, 4 mm. 



