IDOLOCORID^. 375 



Species 1. — Idolocoris pallicornis. 



Brachycer^a pallicornis {Plct. Mey.), Fieb. Europ, Hem. 324, 1 



(1861). 



Somewhat short, parallel, narrow. Pale greenish-yellow, very 

 sparingly clothed with short, stiff, somewhat erect, brown hairs ; 

 Cormm with minute brown spots, in each of which is set a hair ; 

 3rd pair of legs long. 



Head shining; Croion with 2 spots in a line with the hinder 

 margin of the eyes, and 2 diverging streaks extending to the base of 

 the antenniferous processes, pitchy black ; neck behind the eyes fre- 

 quently with a broad pitchy-black streak ; Face ; central lobe fre- 

 quently black or brown. Antennce pale yellow; 1st joint shorter 

 than the head, brown ; extreme base and apex narrowly white or 

 yellowish-white ; next the base with a black ring, centre frequently 

 brownish-yellow ; 2nd 2^ times as long as the 1st ; extreme base 

 narrowly white, or yellowish-white, immediately followed by a broad 

 black ring ; 3rd and 1th together scarcely as long as the 2nd, 4th 

 about \ as long as the 3rd. 'Eyes red or reddish-brown. Sosti-um 

 pale-yellowish ; tip brown. 



Tliorax. — Pronotum pitchy black ; anterior margin, callosities and 

 a central line between the latter extending more or less along the 

 disk, yellow ; in the centre of each callosity a puncture, generally 

 brown ; hinder angles reflexed ; disk transversely wrinkled, slightly 

 depressed in the middle. Scutellum piceous ; basal angles with a 

 large triangular spot ; disk slightly flattened next the transverse 

 channel ; sides from beyond the latter with a triangular streak not 

 reaching to the apex. Elytra diaphanous; Clavus ; inner margin 

 piceous, between the apex of the latter and the nerve a more or less 

 distinct pale piceous patch ; Corium ; anterior margin pale pitchy 

 yellow, inner apical angle piceous ; Cuneiis whitish, apex black ; 

 Membrane very pale brown, iridescent, with an indistinct, somewhat 

 oval, brownish spot a little below the apex of the inner cell nerve ; 

 cell-nerves stout, brown. Legs pale greenish-yellow, or pale yellow, 

 clothed with very short, stiff, brown hairs ; fhiyJis with 2 short, 

 longitudinal rows of brown spots next the" apex ; iilii(e with a few 

 short, somewhat spiuose, black hairs; tarsi; apex of the 3rd joint 

 brown ; claws I'eddish. 



