JiOO ANTHOCORINA. 



Abdomen pitchj broAAn, tlie edges of the segments often luteous. 



Length, ]^ line. 



Common in autumn and winter in the refuse of corn-stacks, &c. 



Genus 5. — Piezostethus, Fie6. 



Head short, broad ; Crown quadrangular ; Face in front obtuse, 

 the lobes wide, and of equal length. AntenncB ; 1st and 2nd joints 

 stout, 1st cylindrical, 2nd gradually clavate, about 2-^ times as long 

 as the 1st ; 3rd and 4th thin, filiform, in length subequal. JEi/es 

 small, not reaching to the base of the head. Ocelli distant, near the 

 base of the eyes. Rostrum reaching to or rather beyond the base of 

 the mesosternum ; 1st joint about |- the length of the head ; 2nd 

 about 2^ times longer than the 1st ; 3rd about as long as the 1st. 



Thorax. — Pronotum trapezoidal ; anterior margin straight, the 

 angles rounded and depressed; sides almost straight, the margins 

 recurved beneath ; hinder angles acute ; posterior margin slightly 

 concave ; disk without a transverse callosity, in front convex, hind- 

 wardly flatter. Scii'tellum large, slightly convex, with a large, wide, 

 central depression. Elytra, when developed, larger than the abdo- 

 men ; Claims slightly deflected outwardly, claval suture depressed ; 

 Corium flat, anterior margin straight ; Cuneus suddenly deflected ; 

 Membrane, with 1 nerve at the corner of the cell. Sternum ; 

 Mesosternum in front, tmder the coxse, depressed ; posteriorly wide, 

 convex, rounded, with a central linear depression ; Metasternum ; 

 base depressed, middle compressed, arched, keeled, hindwardly flat- 

 tened ; xyphus rhomboidal, pointed. Legs ; thighs strong ; Ist pair 

 thickest ; tibicB thickened to the end, with projecting hairs. 



Abdomen beneath, 1st segment with a short point in front. 



Species 1. — Piezostethus galactinus. 



Anthocoris galactinus, Fieh. Weit. Beitr. i, 107, 7 (1836). 

 — PTjLCHELLUs, Zett. Ins. Lap. 265, 3 (1840). 



Xylocoris ALBiPENNis, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 171, t. 315, fig. 971 (1850) ; 

 Bar. Berl. Ent. Zeits. ii, 194 (1858) ; Flor, 

 Uhyn. Liv. i, 669, 3 (1860). 



Piezostethus galactinus, Fieh. Europ. Hem. 139, 1 (1861). 



Black, shining ; clavus and corium yellowish, rather dull ; membrane 

 white, lustrous. 



