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709. 

 HARPOCERA BURMEISTERI. 



Order Coleoptera. Fam. Coreidse. 



Type of the Genus, Harpocera Burmeisteri. 

 Harpocera Curt. 



Antennce inserted before and a little below the eyes, shorter than 

 the body, pubescent, 4-jointed, 2 basal joints long and stout in 

 the male (4<^), 1st subcylindric, 2nd hatchet-shaped, being 

 dilated beneath near the apex and densely ciliated, 3rd and 4th 

 linear, the former very long, curved and densely hairy beneath 

 near the centre, the latter not half so long, the apex com- 

 pressed ; shorter in the female (4 $ ), basal joint much shorter 

 than in the male, 2nd longer and simply clavate. 

 Labrum small, lanceolate and pubescent (3), 

 Mandibles and Maxillce slender filaments (2 m). 

 Labium rather short, not half so long as the antennae, attenu- 

 ated, composed of 4 nearly equal joints (2). 

 Head small, transverse-ovate ; neck none : eyes lateral, very promi- 

 nent and ovate : ocelli none. Thorax trigonate, very narrow and 

 truncated before ; the base broad, concave in the middle, the angles 

 rounded : scutel much smaller than the thorax, triangular. Abdo- 

 men soft, the apex compressed and horny in the male, with a ridge 

 beneath in the female, reaching nearly to the base. Elytra ample, 

 with a large portion of the apex membranous, with an oval cell and 

 2 longitudinal nervures on the basal portion : wings as large, with a 

 long oval costal cell and 4 longitudinal nervures (9). Legs, hinder 

 the longest : thighs compressed, hinder the stoutest : tibiae, anterior 

 long, slender, curved towards the apex in the male (6), nearly straight 

 in the female, the others slender, with numerous short spiny bristles, 

 the hinder considerably the longest : tarsi short and triarticulate ; 

 basal joint the shortest, the others elongated, nearly of equal length : 

 claws and pulvilli minute. 



Burmeisteri Curt. Guide, Gen. 1105? 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



This pretty insect is nearly related to Lygus of Hahn and to 

 my genus Pantilius, from both of which it is distinguished by 

 the shorter 2nd joint, and much longer 3rd joint of the an- 

 tennae. The same characters also separate it from Poecilo- 

 soma, which it otherwise very much resembles, which induced 



