506 ANTHOCORINA. 



Species 1. — Brachysteles pilicornis. 



Brachysteles piLicoENis, Muls. Ann. Soc. Lin. lOi (1S52) ; Fieb. 



Wien. Ent. Monats. iv, 266, 12 (1860) ; 

 Europ. Hem. 141 (1861). 



Black, shining, almost imperceptibly punctured, clothed with fine, 

 subappressed, yellow hairs. Corimn and cuneus piceous, out- 

 wardly broadly testaceous. 



Head smooth ; Face piceous. Antennce piceous, with long hairs. 

 Eyes pitchy black. Ocelli red, shining. Bostrum yellow, the base 

 piceous. 



Thorax.— Pronotum ; the hairs shorter and sparser on the disk 

 than at the sides. Scutellum smooth. Elytra ; Clavus, Corium, 

 and Cuneus piceous, the hairs long ; anterior margin of the corium 

 and cuneus (including nearly the whole breadtli of the embolium) 

 broadly testaceous, the colour sharply defined, and contrasting 

 strongly with the piceous hue of the rest ; Membrane smoke-brown, 

 with a short white streak below the end of the corium. Legs; 

 tliiglis, except at the apex, piceous ; tihi(S testaceous ; tarsi piceous. 



Length, 1 line. 



A single specimen, captured by Dr. Power. 



Genus 8. — Cardiastethus, Fieh. 



Head much longer than the breadth between the eyes ; Face ; 

 central lobe broad, side lobes narrow, as long as the central lobe. 

 Antennae stoutest in the $ , 1st and 2nd joints thickest, 1st reaching 

 to the end of the face, 2nd nearly 3 times as long as the 1st, 

 slightly clavate ; 3rd and 4th each about f rds the length of the 2ud, 

 slightly fusiform, almost filiform. Eyes large, prominent, reaching 

 to the base of the head. Ocelli moderate, distant, prominent. Sos- 

 trmn reaching to the mesosternum, 1st joint very short ; 2nd very 

 long. 



Thorax. — Pronotum trapeziform; sides almost straight, their 

 margin not reflexed ; postci'ior margin concave across the scutellum, 

 the ends slightly rounded ; disk in front with a broad callosity, not 



