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reaching to the sides, hindwardly flatter, slightly depressed in the 

 middle ; hinder angles deflected. Scutellum with a wide, central de- 

 pression. Elytra flattish, a little widened posteriorly ; anterior margin 

 sinuate to the cuneus, there but slightly constricted ; Emholium 

 beyond the middle suddenly widened, its anterior margin strongly 

 reflexed ; Clavus deflected to the corium ; claval suture deeply de- 

 pressed ; Cuneus and Membrane deflected ; Memlrane with 4 nerves, 

 the 2 middle ones slight, at the base approximating each other and 

 the 4th. Sternum ; Mesosternum hindwardly raised, very obtusely 

 angled ; Metasternuni cordate, from the base very convex, with a 

 middle keel. Legs rather long ; tarsi very slender, on the last pair 

 the 2nd joint more than twice as long as the 1st. 



Species 1. — Cardiastethus testaceus. 



Anthocoeis testaceus, Muls. Ann. Soc. Lin. 105 (1852). 

 Cakdiastethtjs testaceus, Fieb. Europ. Hem, 141, 1 (1861). 



Above light reddish-brown, with fine, rather long, yellowish hairs ; 

 beneath brown. Legs brownish-yellow. 



Head smooth. Antennce finely haired ; 1st and 2nd joints brownish- 

 yellow, the end of the 2nd brown ; 3rd and 4th piceous. Eyes 

 black. Ocelli red. Rostrum yellow. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; the callosity smooth, the remainder finely 

 punctured. Seutellmn delicately punctured. Elytra ; Embolium in- 

 wardly, Cuneus outwardly, piceous ; Membrane fuscous, with a yeUow 

 spot next the apex of the cuneus. Sternum ; Prosfernum brownish- 

 yellow ; Meso- and Metasternum brown. Legs brownish-yellow ; 

 tarsi; 2nd and 3rd joints dusky. 



Length, 1 line. 



Eare. One specimen captured by Mr. Ernest Adams, locality not 

 recorded, and another in our possession of which also the locality is 

 unknown. 



Genus 9. — Xylocoris, L. JDuf. 



Narrow, elongate, linear, flat. 



Head elongate, narrowed behind the eyes into a short neck ; 



