HEBRINA. 265 



Section 1.— HEBRINA* 



Family 1.— HEBRID.E. 



Genus 1. — Hebuus, Curt. 

 Small, stout, long-oval. 



Head long, deflected in a curve ; above 5-sided, sideways trian- 

 gular ; Crown long, clypeate, broad, convex, with a slight longitu- 

 dinal channel down the centre ; sides before the eyes widened and 

 flattened ; clypeus produced over the base of the antennae, the 

 margin roundly cut out for their extension ; Face short, broad, 

 vertical. Antennce 6-jointed, inserted on a tubercle low on the sides 

 of the head; 1st and 2nd joints stout, (the 1st stoutest) clavate, 

 slightly curved, 1st long, 2ud |rds the length of the 1st ; 3rd and 

 5th very minute ; 4th as long as the 1st, filiform ; 6th longer than 

 the 4th, long and thin-fusiform. Eyes moderate, hemispherical, 

 prominent, facets large. Ocelli small, distant, inserted on each side 

 of the raised crown in a line with the middle of the eyes. Rostrum 

 reaching to the 3rd pair of coxae, subulate, 4-jointed ; 1st and 2nd 

 joints very short, 3rd and 4th very long ; rostral channel wide, sides 

 raised and posteriorly end in a point projecting a little over the 

 prostemum. 



Thorax. — Pronotum deflected, haxagonal, broader than long ; an- 

 terior margin incrassated ; sides widely divergent to the rounded 

 and prominent hinder angles, bu.t deeply constricted before the 

 middle ; hinder sides rounded; posterior margin straight; disk in the 

 middle with a short, broad, longitudinal channel, of which the sides 

 are somewhat bluntly raised, on each side of it anteriorly, a deep 

 fovea, whence a depression extends to the anterior angles ; hinder 

 portion flat - convex, higher than the anterior part. Sciitellum 

 short, broad, reversed trapeziform, posteriorly raised, concave, with 

 a central longitudinal keel. Elytra very broad posteriorly; Cor 'mm 

 on its anterior margin not \ the length of the elytron, on the inner 

 margin shorter ; posterior margin straight, oblique ; the breadth is 

 about \ that of the elytron, anterior and inner margins with an 

 incrassated nerve ; the region of the Clavus wide, membranous, 



* Pace 25. 



