BERYTIDiE. 149 



Family 2.— BERYTID^. 

 Genus 1. — Berytus, i^<2(5., Fieh. 



Long, narrow, more or less linear. 



Head long, subquadrangular, in front narrower than at the base, 

 across the disk, near the centre, a slight but sharp incision, behind 

 which are the ocelli. From between the ocelli begins a process 

 which gradually rises, and mostly widens a little, and is then narrower 

 to the end, which far overreaches the face ; viewed sideways, it is 

 a vertical more or less rounded plate, curved under until it meets 

 the face, which it often joins. From the ocelli forwards, on each 

 side of the frontal process, but not so long, the sides of the head are 

 distinctly lobe-formed, and at the end of these lobes the antennce are 

 inserted; Face short, narrow, vertical. Antennce long, filiform; 1st 

 joint thickest, not so long as the head and pronotum together, the 

 upper end clavate ; 2nd not so thick as the 1st, and about -Jth its 

 length ; 3rd the thinnest, as long or longer than the 1st ; 4th about 

 twice as long as the 2nd, fusiform, the base thin, narrower than tlie 

 apex of the 3rd. Eyes round, flattened. Ocelli very small. Rostrum 

 reaching only over the presternum, 1st and 2nd joints together not 

 so long as the head ; rostral channel in front with the margins 

 raised for a very short distance. 



Tliorax. — 'Pronotum long - trapezoidal, narrowed at the hinder 

 angles, within them raised more or less and then posteriorly de- 

 flected ; the lateral margins reflexed, keel-formed ; the disk with a 

 central keel throughout, its end and the ends of the lateral margins 

 prolonged beyond the anterior margin. Scutellum triangular, the 

 base covered by the pronotum, the apex prominent. Elytra longer 

 than the abdomen ; Corium opaque, prolonged to a point ; the nerves 

 strong, straight, the two central ones rounded or recurved into the 

 posterior margin ; the space between the nerves with a row of deep 

 punctures slightly separated ; Membrane diaphanous, finely crenate, 

 the nerves nearly straight, at the base curved. Sternum ; rostral 

 channel continued to the end of the metasternum, widest on the 

 mesosternum ; anterior coxce approximate, posterior coxw very dis- 

 tant. Legs long, 3rd pair very long ; thighs clavate ; tilice thin ; 

 tarsi, 1st joint as long as the other 2 together, the 2nd very short. 



