CORIXID^. 613 



Linnoan Society's ' Trausactious,' it is impossible to distinguisli 

 on account of the insufficiency of the description, now that tlio 

 number of known species, many of tliem extremely alike, is so much 

 increased. 



Genus 2. — Cymatia, Flor. 



In general character like Corixa, but different in the following 

 respects. 



TIeail, including the eyes, considerably wider than the pronotum ; 

 Crown horizontal, longer than the pronotum, the raised middle with 

 a longitudinal depression on each side of it ; Face lying beneath the 

 crown at an acute angle, in the ^ concave, in the $ flat. Bostrum ; 

 lahnim smooth. Eijes ; the posterior margin not reaching the base 

 of the head. 



Thorax. — Pronotum and Elytra smooth, the former unicolorous, 

 without transverse lines. Legs ; 1st pair, tihics Ard the length of 

 the tarsi ; tarsi (palfe) in the ^ ensiform, in the ? aculeate, out- 

 wardly rounded, towards the base a little thinner, sides subparallel, 

 the base of the same thickness as the apex of the tibia), the junction 

 scarcely visible ; the cilia on the underside very long, in 2 rows ; 

 3rd pair, tarsi; 1st joint scarcely more than twice as long as 

 the 2nd. 



Sj)ecies 1. — Cymatia BoNSDORFrii. 



CoEiXA BoNSDOKFFii, SaJM. Not. ¥en. 13, 6 (1819). 



— BoNSDOEmi, Fall. Hem. Succ. i, 184, (1829) ; 11. Schf. Waiiz. 



ix, 53, figs. 91G& 917(1850). 

 Co EISA (Cymatia) Bonsdoeitii, Flor, llhyn. Liv. i, 801, 2 (ISCO). 



— BoKSDOEFi, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 90, 2 (1861). 



Above brown. Fronotim twice as broad as long, with a short, lon- 

 gitudinal keel in front, extending to or a little beyond the 

 middle. Elytra with narrow, irregular, transverse, very pale 

 brownish-yellow lines. Ilemlrane developed. 



Head yellow or reddish-yellow ; Crown ; hinder margin narrowly 

 pitchy black ; the longitudinal depression on each side of the raised 



