APH.OTUS. 79 



First joint of antennfe not passing 

 apex of head ; posterior legs verv 

 long. 

 v. Pronotum longer than broad; 



basal joint of posterior tarsi 



about three times longer than 



the other two joints together. . PcEAXTirs, p. 85. 

 y\ Pronotum not longer than broad ; 



basal joint of posterior tarsi 



about twice longer than the 



other two joints together .... Naudaeensia, p. 86. 



Genus APHANUS. 



Aphanus, Laporte. Ess. Hem. p. 35. May. Zool. (1832) ; Sound. 



Hem. Het. Brit. Islds. p. 100 (1892). 

 Pachvmerus, Lep. ^- Sen-. Encycl Meth. x, p. 322 (1825) : Sm. Ofv. 



Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1872, no. 7, p. 57: id. En. Hem. iv, p. 159 (1874), 



nee Thunh. Coleopt. 1805. 

 Ehvparochronius. Fieber, Eur. Hem. pp. 50 & 193 (1861). 

 Beosus, Fieber, Eur. Hem. pp. 51 & 19(3 (1861). 

 Subg. Microtomideus, Liolobus, Bleteoo-onus, Eaglioides, Rent. Rev. 



d'Ent. iv, pp. 221, 224, 225 .>c 229 (1885). 

 Subg. Graptopeltus, Xanthochilus, Melandiscus, Eaglius, Stil, Ofv. 



Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1872, no. 7, p. o7. 

 Subg. Phorcinus and Xaphius, Stal. En. Hem. iv, p. 160 (1874). 



Type, A. jjedestris, Panz. A Palaearctic species which has been 

 found in ^South Africa. 



Distnbution. Palaearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental Eegions. 



Head short, triangular : eyes nearly or quite touching the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum ; first joint of antennae passing 

 the apex of head ; pronotum broad, depressed, its lateral margins 

 laminately ampliated : seutellum large, subtriangular ; clavus 

 variously punctured ; membrane fully developed ; anterior femora 

 moderately thickened and spined ; basal joint of the posterior 

 tarsi twice as long as the other two joints together. 



a. Pronotum with apices of lateral margins not promine'ntly 

 rounded. 



808. Aphanus SOrdidus, Fair. (Cimex) Mant. ii, p. 302 (1787) ; 

 id. (Lygseus) Ent. Syst. iv, p. 164 (1794J ; Dall. (Pihyparo- 

 chromus) List Hem. ii, p. 560 (1852); St&l (Beosus), Hem. 

 Fahr. i, p. 78 (1868) ; iJist. A. M. X. H. (7) viii, p. 501 (1901). 

 Var. Ehvparochromus pallens, Dall. List Hem. ii, p. 567 (1852) ; 

 Leth. ^' Sev. (Dieuches) Cat. Gen. Hem. t. ii, p. 220 (1894). 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, base of seutellum and sterniun 

 piceous or dark castaneous : abdomen beneath pale castaneous ; 

 posterior lobe of pronotum, seutellum (excluding base) and 

 corium ochraceous, thickly punctured with brown, lateral margins 

 of pronotum and corium with only a few coarse punctures ; 



