124 COREINA. 



strong cross nerve distant from the base of the membrane, where a 

 wide space is left, crossed by 2 or 8 nerves only, near the inner 

 margin. Sternum with a deep, rounded rostral channel, ending in a 

 deeper fovea on the mesosternum. Legs rather short ; thir/lis gra- 

 dually thickened towards the apex ; tarsi; 1st joint as long as the 

 other 2 together. 



Abdomen above flat, beneath convex ; the last segment posteriorly 

 cut out for the genital segments — roundly in the ^ , angularly in 

 the ? , as in Cbre?<s, but the angles are not so pointed. Connexivum 

 broad, rounded, reflexed, extending upwards beyond the elytra. 

 Genital segments as in Coreus. 



Species 1. — Pseudophlceus Fall^ni. 



CoEEUS Tallenii, ScMll. Beitr. 40, t. i, fig. 2 (1829). 

 Akenocoris Fallenii, Hahn, Wauz. ii, 112, fig. 192 (1834). 

 Atractus litekatus, Curt. B. E. x, pi. 500 (1834). 

 Pseudophlceus Fallenii, Burm. Haudb. ii, 308, 4, 1 (1835). 



— Falleni, Fied. Europ. Hem. 217, 138, 1 (1861) ; Slal, 



K. Vet. Akad. Foih. 267, 1 (1802). 



Varies in colour from pale ochreous-gray to chocolate-brown, very 

 slightly shining. 



Head with 3 rows of strong granulations, 1 central, and 1 before 

 each of the ocelli. Antennce ; 1st joint light or dark brown, more 

 coarsely granulated than the others; 2nd and 3rd yellowish or 

 reddish-brown ; 4th black, the last frds gray, with shining ap- 

 pressed pile. Eyps, Ocelli, and Rostrmn, piceous. 



Thorax. — Fronotum very deflected, in front depressed ; sides very 

 concave, suddenly raised and widened posteriorly, the margins strongly 

 granulated ; disk with 2 central, hindwardly diverging, broad rows of 

 large, whitish granulose nodules, with a deep furrow between them, 

 in which, at the front, and also on the exterior of the rows, is a 

 black spot ; the rest of the disk strongly punctured and granulated ; 

 posterior portion coloured darkest, behind the ridge generally 

 piceous or black. Scutellum ochreous or brown, the base depressed, 

 black in most cases ; the apex raised into a small, obtuse double point, 

 which is often black. Elytra ; Clavus strongly, widely punctured ; 

 Cerium strongly, widely punctured in rows ; the strong, raised 

 nerves of the ground colour, with short black streaks ; between 

 two nervures on the middle of the postei'ior margin a longisli, pale 



