514 ANTIiOCORINA. 



Mesosternum obtuse, prominent, with <a rostral cliamiel ; Metasternum 

 obtuse, depressed. Legs rather long and stout, 2iid pair shortest ; 

 fhif/hs flattened ; tihice ; 1st pair thin, widened to the apex ; farsi ; 

 ^h-d pair thinner and longer than tlie others, 1st joint very short; 

 claws very short. 



Sj)ecies 1. — Ckratocombus muscoru.m. 



? Antuocoeis coLEorTRATA, Zeft, Act. Hohn. 174, 24 (1S19). 

 Bryocoris muscorum, Fall. Hem. Suec. 153, 3 (1829). 

 AsTEMMA MuLSANTi, Slg?i. Ann. Soc. Eut. France, 2me ser. x, 541, pi. 



IG, fig. 3 (1852). 

 LiciiENOBiA TERRUGINEA, Baerens, Berl. Ent. Zeits. 167 (1S57). 



— muscorum, Baerens, Berl. Ent. Zeits. 189 (1858). 



Ceratocombus muscorum, Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iv, 267, t. G, fig. t 

 (18G0) ; Europ. Hem. 143 (1861). 



Smooth, slightly shining ; sides of head and front o^ pronotiim with a 

 few long projecting hairs. 



Head. — Crown piceous or black ; T'ace piceous. Antennce pale 

 or yeliowish-piceous, with long dark hairs ; 2nd joint darker 

 before, but yellowish at, the apex, lilyes brown. Bostrum yel- 

 lowish. 



Thorax. — Pronotum black. Scutellum blackish-brown. Elijtra 

 olive-brown. Legs yellowish ; thighs dusky on the edges. 



Abdomen beneath piceous, the edges of the segments yellowish. 



Length, 1 line. 



Eare. Pound among moss on the ground at Ditehinghara, 

 Norfolk, in August, and near Esher, Surrey, in September, ISoli, by 

 Dr. Power, who tells us that examples are scarce and difficult to 

 distinguish on account of their prima facie resemblance to a Dipteron, 

 which occurs abundantly in their habitat. 



Genus 2. — Dipsocoris, llalid. 



Head equilaterally ti-iangular, seen from the side long triangular, 

 thick, obtuse. Anfenncc flagellate ; 1st joint stout, not reaching to 

 tlie end of the face ; 2nd almost twice as long as the 1st ; 3rd about 

 2|rcls as long as the 2ud, filiform, thicker at the base ; 4th about 



