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attingente, e basi ad apicem nonnihil incrassato, secundo 

 lineari, quam primo tenuiore et circiter duplo et dimidio 

 longiore, rostro coxas anticas paulluin snperante, articulo 

 primo crasso, apicem prosterni paullum superante, secundo 

 primo paulio breviore, tertio secundo subaequali, quarto 

 tertio dimidio breviore. Pronotum modice convexo-declive, 

 basi capite circiter duplo latius, coUari distincto, crassiu- 

 sculo, callis transversis, impressione sat profunda discretis, 

 usque ad latera extensis, retrorsum paulio ultra trientem 

 apicalem disci extensis, marginibus lateralibus obtusis, con- 

 vexis, margine basali rotundato, disco ad angulos laterales 

 depresso vel subimpresso. Mesoscutum obtectum. Scutel- 

 lum latius quam longius, disco basin versus leviter impresso. 

 Mesosternum tumidum, medio in longitudinem impressum. 

 Orificia angusta, marginata, oblique retrorsum directa. Elytra 

 apicem abdominis longius superantia, embolio angusto, line- 

 ars, subincrassato, percurrente, corio et clavo venis distinc- 

 tis destitutis, commissura hujus scutello longiore, cuneo levi- 

 ter vel levissime declivi, oblongo, triplo longiore quam latiore, 

 a paracuneo parum discreto, fractura et incisura lenibus, 

 cellula membranae magna, apice anguste rotundato apicem 

 cunei superante. Coxae anticae breves. Typus: Eccritotar- 

 sus semiluteus Stål. 



KiRKALDY indicated E. nigrocruciatus Stål as the type 

 of the genus, but as Distant had separated Neofurius (to 

 which nigrocruciatus belongs) from Eccritolarsus, a species of 

 Neofurius can not be chosen as the type of Eccritotarsus : 

 the approval of such a proceeding would have disastrous 

 results and lead to the renaming of a great many genera. 

 We must therefore follow Reuter's type-designation. 



48. Eccritotarsus semiluteus Stål. 



1860. Eccritotarsus semiluteus Stål, Vet. Ak. Handl. II, 7, 



p. 57. 



1907. Eccritotarsus semiluteus Re ut., Ann. Nat. Hofmus. 



Wien XXII, 34. 



1910. Eccritotarsus semiluteus Reut., Acta Soc. Se. Fenn. 



XXXVII, 3, p. 123. 



In the first line of the description, after antennis, should 

 be added: ima basi articuli primi excepta. In the second 



