112 COREINA. 



Elytra not so long as the abdomen ; Cormm with the nerves fine ; 

 Membrane filled with a network of nerves arranged as in Si/ro- 

 mastes. Sternum with a shallow rostral channel, deeper and wider 

 on the metasternum ; posterior margin of the Metasternum produced 

 over the abdomen. Le(/s strong ; thighs not incrassated in the 

 middle, without a channel beneath, unarmed ; 8rd pair angulated ; 

 tihicB with a fine depressed line on the upper side ; tarsi, with the 1st 

 joint as long as the other two together. 



Abdomen above flat, the last segment with the posterior margin 

 in the $ slightly concave and bisinuate ; in the ? deejily concave, 

 beneath very convex within the connexivum, the last segment 

 with the posterior margin deeply cut out. Con7iexivum not 

 covered by the elytra, reflexed, very broad, gradually widened and 

 then narrowed, the last segment a little constricted in the centre and 

 ending in a long, obtuse point. Genital segments as in Syromastes, 

 but in the 9 '^1^^ ^^^^ segment is posteriorly produced into two 

 long, broad points, which scarcely project further than the points 

 of the connexivum. 



Species 1. — Enoplops Scapha. 



CouEUs ScApnA, Fab. E. S. iv, 127, 2 (1794) ; S. R. 193, 9 (1803) ; 



Coqb. 111. Ic. ii, 82, t. 19, fig. 5 (1799) ; Wolff, Ic. 



Cim. 69, t. 7, fig. 66 (1801) ; Curt. B. E. iv, pi. 174 



(1827); Schill. Beitr. 39, 2, t. 4, fig. 2 (1829); 



Hahn, Wanz. ii, 103, t. 61, fig. 186 (1834) ; H. Schf. 



Panz. r. G. 116, 9 (1835) ; Norn. Ent.l, 41 (1835) ; 



Ramb. F. And. ii, 138, 10 (1842) ; Kolen. Mel. Ent. 



ii, 49, 7 (1845). 

 Syromastes Scapha, Burm. Handb. ii, 315, 3 (1835). 

 Enoplops Scapha, Am. et Sen. Hem. 208, 1 (1843) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 



230, 1 (1861). 

 Syromastes (Enoplops) Scapha, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 171, 1 (1860). 



Above ochreous, entirely covered with fine black punctures, so that 

 the colour appears dull fuscous. 



Head black, closely punctured, the lateral margins and anterior 

 spine whitish. Antennce : 1st joint black, finely rugose-punctate, 

 beneath ochreous, black-pimctured ; 2nd red ; 3rd, the base red, 

 the rest black ; 4th black. Eyes and Ocelli bi'own. Eostrum 

 piceoug. 



