208 LYG^INA. 



Genus 13. — Hypnophilus.* 

 Narrow ; the sides parallel. 



Head 5-sid.ecl ; Face long, triangular ; side lobes short, triangular, 

 acute. AntenncB slender, of moderate length ; 1st joint rather the 

 stoutest, the apex reaches a little beyond the end of the face ; 2nd 

 and 3rd slightly clavate, 2nd twice as long as the 1st ; 3rd and 4th 

 each shorter than the 2nd, in length subequal ; 4th fusiform. Eyes 

 semi-globose prominent. Ocelli very small, distant. Hostrum thin, 

 reaching to the 2ud or 3rd pair of coxae; 1st joint as long as the 

 head, 2nd longest. 



Thorax. — Pronotum sub quadrangular, at least as wide as the 

 head across the eyes ; anterior angles rounded ; sides nearly straight, 

 a little constricted at about -|-ths of the length ; side margins narrow ; 

 posterior angles rather prominent, slightly rounded ; posterior 

 margin concave ; disk anteriorly convex for about fths of the length, 

 the rest flat, only a little thickened within the hinder angles. Scu- 

 tellum large, triangular, slightly convex. Elytra; Claims and 

 Coj'm77t flat ; Corium i the length of the abdomen ; anterior margin 

 straight ; apex rounded ; Memirane rudimentary in English examples 

 (according to Fieber and Flor, it is sometimes developed, and has 4 

 nerves). Sternum; 3Ietasternuiii in front prominent, with a sharp 

 keel ; xyphus short or pointed. Leys ; thiyhs fusiform ; 1st pair iu- 

 crassated, flattened beneath on the apical ^, unarmed ; tihice, 1st 

 pair widened on the inner side to the apex ; tarsi ; 3rd joint on the 

 1st and 2nd pair as long as the 1st and 2nd together, on the 3rd pair 

 much longer. 



Abdomen, very convex beneath ; Connexivum deep, almost 

 vertical. 



Species 1. — Hypnophilus micropterus. 



Rhyparochkomus mickoptekus, Curt. B. E. xiii, G12, 2 (1836). 

 Pachymerus HIRSUTULUS, Scholtz, Ai'b. u. Verand, 29 (1817). 



— GRACILIS, Bohem. Vet. Akad. Forh. 54, 6 (1852). 



— (Pachymerus) hemipterus, Flor, Rliyu. Liv. i, 261, 18 



(1860). 

 Macrodema hirsutul.\, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 180 & 388 (1861). 



* 'Yttvoc, a moss, and (piKot;, a lover. 



