PHYLID/E. 349 



Thorax. — Pronotum somewhat campauulate, broader tliau long ; 

 anterior margin straight, angles rounded ; sides concave ; hinder 

 angles short, raised ; posterior margin concave, rounded towards and 

 at the hinder angles ; disk convex. ScuteUuui slightly raised above 

 the clavus, triangular, equilateral ; with a transverse channel near 

 the base, ^/yifr^ longer than the abdomen ; C/«i7« convex ; Coriuin 

 horizontal, flat as far as the junction with the cuneus and mem- 

 brane, which are deflected ; Cuiieus long, triangular ; inner margin 

 somewhat rounded next the apex. Sternum : Prosternum ; xyphus 

 triangular, somewhat pointed, witli a faint fovea in the middle ; 

 3Iesosternum convex; posterior margin with a notch in the middle ; 

 Metastcrnum convex. Z(^y5 long and thin ; 3rd pair longest; tarsi 

 long ; 2nd joint longest, 2^- times as long as the 1st ; 3rd shorter 

 than the 2ud. 



Species 1. — Sphihacephalus ambulans. 



Cafsus ambulaxs, Tall. Ilcm. Succ. i, 12G, 20 (1S2'J) ; 11. Schf. Wanz. 



109, figs. 335—337 (1S36) ; Meyer, Caps. SG, 



C7 (1813); Zett. Ins. Lap. 279, 12 (1S39) ; Sahib. 



Geoc. Fen. 91, 5 (ISIS); Kirschlj. Caps. 70, SS 



(1855). 

 CiiLAMi'DATUS ociiiiiPES, Curt. Br. Eut. XV, G93 (1838). 

 Cafsus (Cafsus) ambulans, Flor, Ehyn. Liv. i, 577, 13 (1860). 

 Mecomha a.aibulaks, Yieb. Europ. Hem. 281 (ISGl). 



$ black, shining, clothed with fine white hairs. 



Head. — Crown with a yellow or reddish-yellow spot on the hinder 

 part near each eye, often wanting in the ^. Antennce black, 

 clothed with fine, short, white hairs ; 3rd joint narrowly white at 

 the base. Eostrum yellowish or brownish-yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the anterior margin ; 

 hinder angles somewhat reflexed ; disk somewhat thickly punc- 

 tured in the centre behind the callosities. Scutellum ; base 

 deflected to the transverse channel ; disk convex. Elijtra diapha- 

 nous ; Clavus convex, finely punctured ; pitchy-brown from the 

 inner margin to the nerve ; between the latter and the suture 

 pale broA\nish-yellow ; Cerium ; anterior margin exteriorly and in- 

 teriorly narrowly pitchy-brown, apex with a pitchy-black spot ; 

 margin of the inner angle brown; disk pale brownish-yellow; 



