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Genus 6. — Malacocoris, Fieb. 



Short, narrow, suboval, very delicate. 



Head almost vertical in front, wider across the eyes than long ; 

 transvei'sely oval, bnt posteriorly prodnced into a neck ; sides 

 rounded and narrowed towards the base ; behind the eyes a trans- 

 verse channel ; Crown convex ; Clypeus convex, overhanging the face, 

 apex in a line with the base of the antenuje ; antenniferous processes 

 short, in a line with the middle of the lower half of the eye ; Face 

 short, pointed ; central lobe convex ; side lobes very short, narrow, 

 somewhat jjarallel. Antennae; 1st joint cylindrical, a little longer 

 than the pronotum ; 2nd thinner than the 1st, 3 times aa long ; 

 3rd and 4th filiform, 3rd nearly as long as the 2nd, 4th \ as long 

 as the 3rd. Eyes small, somewhat prominent, viewed from above 

 almost hemispherical, from the side, short oval. Rostrum reaching 

 to the 2nd abdominal segment ; 1st joint much shorter than the head. 



Thorax. — Pronotum trapeziform. If times broader across the 

 posterior margin than long, with 2 callosities behind the slightly 

 indented anterior margin, angles rounded ; sides straight ; hinder 

 angles short, acute ; posterior margin concave ; disk convex, deflected 

 to the head. Sciitellum large, triangular, convex, slightly raised 

 above the clavus ; with a transverse channel before the middle. 

 Elytra longer than the abdomen ; Clavus convex, deflected to the 

 corium ; Corium horizontal, somewhat flatfish ; cuneu.s and membrane 

 deflected ; Cuneus long, triangular. Sternum : Prosternum ; xyphus 

 triangular, equilateral, with a deep fovea in the middle ; Mesosternum 

 convex ; posterior margin convex, deeply notched in the middle ; 

 Metasternum shortened in the middle, very convex. Leys long, 

 thin, 3rd pair longest. 



Species 1. — Malacocoris chlorizans. 



Lyg^us chlokizans, Panz. F. G. IS, 21 (1794). 

 Phytocoris chorizans, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, S2, 10 (1829). 

 Capsus — Meyer, tab. 4, fig. 4, 76, 50 (1843). 



— chlorizans, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 98, 13 (184S) ; Kirschb. Caps. 



73, 83(1855). 



— (Capsus) chlorizans, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 551, 46 (1860). 

 Malacocoris chlorizans, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 322, 1 (1861). 



