484 ANTHOCORINA. 



acute. Eyes large, prominent ; the orbit, from above, concave. 

 Rostrum thick, curved, reaching to the 1st pair of coxse. 



Thorax. — Pronotum convex, much broader than long, trapeziforra 

 in the ($ , almost quadrangular in the $ ; anterior margin con- 

 stricted into a narrow annulus ; posterior margin concave. Scufellmn 

 short, broad, equilaterally triangular, the base transversely convex. 

 Elytra : ^ ; Glavus broad, widest posteriorly ; Cormm ; anterior 

 margin incrassated, raised, from the base widened in a long curve, 

 more or less contracted at the cuneus ; disk rather convex as far as 

 the cuneus, then flatly deflected ; Embolmm long, concave, poste- 

 rior margin slightly defined ; Cunetts ; at the base, not projecting so 

 far as the anterior margin of the corium ; Membrane broad, anterior 

 margin slightly constricted at the junction with the cuneus ; base in 

 the middle with a semioval cell, from its lowest part 1 thick nerve 

 dividing immediately into 3 very short, fine nerves ; from the inner 

 side of the cell 1 fine short nerve ; all the nerves soon become 

 evanescent : $ ; Corhwi very convex, broad, short, oval, inner mar- 

 gins straight, not overlapping. Sternum ; Mesostermim very convex, 

 hindwardly obtuse, projecting ; 3fetasternum depressed. Leys ; in 

 ^ long, thin; thighs cylindrical, in $ shorter and stouter; tihice 

 slightly thickened to the apex ; 3rd pair slightly bent ; tarsi long, 

 slender. 



Species 1. — Myrmedobia coleoptrata. 



$ Salda coleoptbata. Fall. Men. Cim. 31, 7 (1807). 



i Lyg^us exilis. Full. Mon. Cim. 73, 23 (1807). 



S Anthocoris exilis, Fall. Hem. Suec. 68, 5 (1829); H. Schf. Wanz. 



ix, 230 (1850). 

 9 Bryocoris coleoptrata, Fall. Hem. Suec. 70 (1829). 

 9 — PALUSTRis, Fall. Hem. Suec. 152, 2 (1829). 



$ MiCROPHYSA MYRMECOBIA, Mdrkel, Germ. Zeits. 5, 262 (1839). 

 i Anthocoris stjbtilis. Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 79, 9 (1848). 

 9 Myrmedobia coleoptrata, Barens. Berl. Ent. Zeits. ii, IGO (1858) ; 



Fieb. Europ. Hem. 133, 1 (1861). 

 <? & ? MiCROPHYSA CxTRTisli, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 660 (1860). 

 $ Idiotropds exilis, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 133, 2 (1861). 



S Black; dull. 



Head. — AntenncB with very fine projecting whitish hairs. Ocelli 

 red. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; in the middle a long, linear, transverse inci. 



