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or a little lower than the under margin of the eyes ; antenniferous 

 processes in a line with the middle of the lower half of the eyes ; 

 Face ; central lobe long, broad, convex; side lobes short, narrow, 

 parallel, rounded outwardly. Antennae thin, considerably longer 

 than the body ; 1st joint cylindrical, shorter than the head ; 2nd 

 scarcely thickened to the apex, 4 times longer than the 1st ; 3rd and 

 4th filiform, together much longer than the 2nd, 3rd shorter than 

 the 4th, 4th about as long as the 2nd. Fijes small, more or less 

 prominent, viewed from the side short, somewhat oval, scarcely \ as 

 long as the side of the head. Rostrum reaching to the end of the 

 metasternum ; 1st joint stout, reaching to the apex of the xyphus of 

 the presternum. 



Thorax. — Pronotnm trapeziform, in developed examples about 1^ 

 time as broad on the posterior margin as long; in undeveloped 

 examples almost as long as broad, with 2 flattish callosities in front ; 

 anterior margin in developed examples straight, angles rounded, 

 sides straight ; hinder angles short, acute, slightly raised ; posterior 

 margin convex ; disk convex, slightly deflected to the head. Elytra 

 in undeveloped examples with or without a clavus ; pronotum broad ; 

 callosities almost obsolete ; anterior margin straight, angles rounded ; 

 hinder angles very short, acute ; posterior margin straight, rounded 

 towards the hinder angles ; disk horizontal, flattish convex. Scutelliim 

 triangular, level with the clavus, convex or flattish convex, with a trans- 

 verse channel near the base, the basal portion concealed beneath the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum. Elytra in developed examples 

 convex, longer than the abdomen, horizontal as far as the junction with 

 the cuneus and membrane, which are much deflected ; in undeveloped 

 examples very convex, rounded at the apex and not covering the abdo- 

 men ; Clavus in developed examples convex, deflected to the corium ; 

 Co7'ium convex; anterior margin somewhat reflexed at the base; Cuneus 

 triangular ; anterior margin rounded at the base, leaving a small but 

 distinct notch. Sternum: Prosternum; xyphus triangular, sides some- 

 what reflexed. Leys saltatorial ; 3rd pair of tliiyhs long, stout, flat- 

 tened on the sides ; tarsi ; 2nd joint of the 3rd pair longest. 



Species 1. — Halticocoris pallicoknis. 



Salua pallicornis, Fab. S. R. 115, 6 (1803). 



AcANTHiA PALLICOKNIS. Wolff, Ic. Clm, 128, 122, tab. 13, fig. 122, a, b 



(1801). 

 Lyg^us — Fall. Mon. Cim. 95, SO (1807). 



