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prominent, free, tubelike prolongation. Anogenital segment 
in male large, convex, nearly circular in outline. 
Eye facets apparently concave. Scutellum shorter than 
broad. Metasternum on each side, near the lateral margin 
with a longitudinal furrow. 
Genotype: Mendocinia hygrobia n. sp. 
Mendocinia hygrobia n. sp. (Fig. 1): Brownish yellow; 
legs and antennæ paler; claws rufous yellow. Pronotum 
dark brovnish, intermingled with reddish. The scale like 
wing covers sordid pale, with a somewhat obsolete, 
transversal, dark band just before hind margin. 
Head short, stooping, triangular, somewhat raised and 
projecting in front. Pronotum broader than long, nar- 
rowing forwardly; sides very slightly rounded; hind angles 
bluntly rounded; fore and hind margins nearly straight, 
parallel. Scutellum short, triangular, broader than long. 
Abdomen moderately elongate, widest across middle. 
Connexivum raised. Venter laterally with irregular impres- 
sions; stigmata not distinct in the type specimen. Rostrum 
long, fully reaching hind cox&; joints subequal in length. 
4th joint of antenne narrowed basally. Pubescense of ab- 
domen short and adpressed, of head, pronotum, scutellum 
and hemelytra erect and slightly longer. Length 3% mm. 
A single $ specimen from the Province of. Mendoza, 
Argentina. 
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In his revised, new hemipterological system O. M. Reuter 
has erroneously put the Aépophilide together with fa- 
milies, which have „Rostrum triarticulatum.“ With know- 
ledge of the hereby described new genus it is necessary 
to modify Reuter’s diagnosis of the family as regards the 
hemelytra: »Hemielytra fortiter abbreviata, squamiformia, 
angulo apicali exteriore acuminata‘‘. The four last cited 
words must be deleted. 
