HARPOCERIDiE. 469 



posterior margin concave across the scutellum, rounded towards and 

 at the hinder angles ; disk convex, deflected to the head. Scutellum 

 convex, triangular, almost equilateral, raised above the clavus, with 

 a transverse channel near the base ; Elytra longer than the abdomen; 

 Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Corium flattish convex, flat 

 at the base, horizontal as far as the junction with the cuneus and 

 membrane, which are deflected ; Cuneus long, triangular. Sternum : 

 Prosternmn ; xjphus longish triangular ; anteriorly somewhat foveo- 

 late ; Mesosternum convex, with a central channel ; posterior margin 

 convex, indented in the middle ; Metasternum with a callosity in the 

 centre. Legs: tihice ; 1st and 3rd pairs of the ^ (especially the 

 1st) much bent before the apex; in the ? straight ; tarsi; 2nd joint 

 longer than the 3rd ; 1st about i the length of the 3rd. 



Species 1. — Harpocera thoracica. 



Lyg.eus thoracicus, Fall. Mon. Cim. 81, 45 (1S07). 

 Phytocoris thoracicus, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 111, C6 (1829). 

 Harpocera Burmeisteri, Curt. B. E. xv, p. and pi. 709 (1838). 

 Capsus curvipes, Meyer, Caps. 98, 86, tab. 5, fig. 3 ^ (1843). 



— THORACICUS, Meyer, Caps. 102, 90, tab. 6, fig. 5 $ (1843); 



Kirschb. Caps. 73, 82 (1855). 



— ANTENNATUS, Muls. Ann. Soc. Lin. 130 (1852). 

 Harpocera thoracica, Fieh. Europ. Hem. 296 (1861). 



(J Brownish-yellow, clothed with fine, somewhat erect, yellowish hairs. 



Head black ; Crown ; hinder margin in the middle, yellowish ; 

 Face ; central lobe with a broad pale streak down the middle ; side 

 lobes yellowish. Antennce ; 1st joint piceous ; 2ud brown, apex 

 reddish-yellow ; 3rd brown ; 4th black. Eyes brown. Hostrum 

 yellowish, tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum black, shining ; posterior margin narrowly 

 reddish -yellow ; disk very finely wrinkled transversely, with a 

 broadish yellow central streak extending from behind the callosities 

 to the posterior margin. Scutellum black, apex broadly reddish. 

 Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin black ; disk piceous ; nerve brownish- 

 yellow, palest at the apex ; claval suture yellowish-white ; Corium ; 

 anterior margin brown, within the apex a somewhat triangular, yel- 

 lowish patch ; disk pale pitchy brown ; base and 1st nerve pale 

 brownish-yellow ; Cuneus black ; base yellowish-white ; Membrane 

 pale fuscous, the inner margin broadly pale, and a triangular patch 



