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keel ; Clypeus convex ; base a little below the anterior margin of the 

 eyes, apex very slightly produced, almost in a line with the very 

 short antenuiferous processes ; the latter in a line with the lower 

 margin of the eyes ; Face ; central lobe short, stout, convex ; side 

 lobe very short, narrow. Antennce shorter than the body ; 1st joint 

 clavate, much shorter than the head ; 2nd, 3 times longer than the 

 1st, slightly thickened to the apex ; 3rd and 4th filiform, together 

 longer than the 2nd, 3rd, |rds the length of the 2nd, 4th, about 

 f rds the length of the 3rd. Ei/es large, viewed from above almost 

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

 2nd pair of coxre ; 1st joint stout, reaching to the xyphus of the 

 presternum. 



Thorax. — Pronotum short, trapezoidal, twice as broad across the 

 posterior margin as long, sometimes with 2 callosities beliind the 

 anterior margin ; the latter straight, angles rounded ; sides convex ; 

 binder angles short, somewhat acute ; posterior margin concave ; 

 disk flattisli convex, slightly deflected to the head. Scutellum trian- 

 gular, equilateral, level with the clavus, with a transverse channel 

 near the base ; anterior portion flattish, very slightly deflected to 

 the transverse channel ; hinder portion flattish convex. Elytra ; in 

 developed examples, longer than the abdomen ; in undeveloped 

 examples, not covering more than half the abdomen ; in the latter 

 case, the clavus is not distinct from the cerium, and the cuneus and 

 membi'ane are wanting : in developed examj)les the Clavus con\ ex, 

 deflected to the corium ; Corium horizontal, convex ; cuneus and 

 membrane slightly deflected ; Cuneus longish, triangular ; base 

 broad. Sternum: T?rosternum ; xyphus triangular, very convex in 

 front ; JSLesosternum convex, flattish in the middle, somewhat ele- 

 vated posteriorly, and with a central channel ; posterior margin 

 rounded ; JSLetasternum convex, in the middle short angled. Legs 

 saltatorial ; thighs; 3rd pair stout, flattened on the sides ; tarsi oi 

 the 3rd pair long, thin ; 2iid joint shorter than the 3rd ; 1st about 

 f rds the length of the 2d. 



Species 1. — Agalliastes pulicarius. 



Phytocokis pulicarius, Fall. Mon. Cim. 95, SI (1S07). 

 Capsus saliexs, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 200, tab. 20, fi- 19 i (1811). 

 PiiYTOCOiiis PULiCAiuus, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 113, 71 (1829). 

 Attus — Halm, Wanz. i, 117, fig. 62 (1831); Bum. 



Ilandb. ii, 227, 2 (1835). 



