266 HEBRINA. 



posteriorly not perceptibly separated from the membrane ; Ilem- 

 hrane very broad, thin, without perceptible nerves. Wings with 1 

 triangular, basal cell, and 1 nerve at its end. Sfermim flat, with a 

 wide rostral channel. Legs proportionally long and stout ; posterior 

 thighs curved ; coxes on each segment of the sternum very wide 

 apart, widest on the 3rd ; tarsi trimerous ; 1st joint very small ; 2nd 

 longer, stout, the end oblique, clasping the Sx'd, which is long, 

 stout, thickest at the end, rugose and hairy, with 2 very short, 

 curved claws ; the 2nd and 3rd joints are so closely united as to 

 appear to form but 1 long, ovate joint. 



Abdoinen beneath convex, but flattened in the middle ; apex 

 rounded ; Connexivum narrow. Genital segments not visible from 

 above, beneath projecting through a circular opening in the last 

 abdominal segment ; in the c? , 2 ; the first short, annular ; the 2nd 

 at the base cylindrical, but then rapidly narrowed to a point, which 

 is curved upwards ; in the ? , 3 ; the 1st small, the 2nd and 3rd 

 cleft longitudinally in the middle, but not parted. 



This genus has several aj)parent relationshijDs, and has been 

 variously placed by authors ; but on the whole, it appears to have 

 the nearest affinity to the sections between which we, following 

 Pior, have jjlaced it. 



Species 1. — Hebrus pusillus. 



Lyg^us pusillus. Fall. Mon. Cim. 71, 19 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. G5, 27 

 (1829) ; Germ. F. Ins. Europ. 15, 11. 



Hebuus pusilla, Curt. Ent. Mag. i, 199 (1833). 



— PUSILLUS, Westio. An. Soc. Ent, France, iii, 652, pi. 6, fig. 6 

 (1834) ; Burm. Handb. ii, 214, 1 (1835) ; Am. et 

 Serv. Hem. 294, 1 (1843) ; Flor, Eliyn. Liv. i, 374, 1 

 (1860); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 104, 1 (1861). 



Black, dull, with fine, short, shining white hairs ; Clavus at the base 

 snow-white ; Membrane with 3 long white spots in a triangle. 



Head finely punctured ; margin of tlie Clypeiis whitish ; under- 

 side yellow-brown, sides of the rostral channel ochreous. Antennts 

 with short hairs, black ; 1st joint yellow-brown. I^ges piceous ; 

 Ocelli brown. Rostrum yellow-brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotum posteriorly brown. Eh/tra; Corium black, 



