CANTACADER. 123 



This divisiou at present includes only a small number of genera 

 and species, but these are widely distributed, and our knowledge 

 is still distinctly of a fragmentary nature. 



Synopsis of Genera. 



A. Pronotum with five discal carinae ; posterior 



margin convexly produced, covering scu- 



tellum Cantacadkr, p. 123. 



B. Pronotum with three discal carinae ; pos- 



terior margin truncate ; scutellum exposed. 



a. Head with porrect frontal spines ; lateral 



pronotal margins angularly or convexly 

 dilated ; discoidal and subcostal areas 

 of hemelytra. with transversely raised 

 lines Phatnoma, p. 126. 



b. Head without porrect trontal spines ; 



lateral pronotal margins not prominently 

 dilated ; discoidal and subcostal areas 

 of hemelytra without transverse raised 

 lines Ctonycentbum, p. 125. 



Genus CANTACADER. 



Cantacader, Amy. i^- Serv. Hem. p. 299 (1843) ; Fieber, Eur. Hem. 



pp. 35 & 117 (1861) ; Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 116 (1873). 

 Taphrostethus, Fieber, Ent. Monogr. pp. 29 & 40 (1844). 



Type, C. quadricortiis, Lep. & Sev., a Paleearctic species. 



Distribution. Palsearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, IS^earctic, and 

 Neotropical Regions. 



Body elongate ; head elongate, triangular, buccal laminae promi- 

 nent, projecting in front of head ; antennae moderately long, first 

 and second joints very short and incrassate, third very long, 

 fourth moderately fusiform, about as long as first and second 

 joints together, two spines on each side of head and the anten- 

 niferous tubercles also spined ; pronotum with the frontal margin 

 truncate, the posterior margin convexly produced behind, com- 

 pletely covering the scutellum, the disk with five carinae ; elytra 

 with ill-defined clavus, but well-defined subcostal nervure ; legs 

 moderate, slender ; rostrum reaching the basal abdominal area, 

 rostral groove profound. 



A. Short lateral p7-onotal carina' well separated from 

 adjoining carinas. 



a. Two outer continuous discal pronotal carince bent outwardly. 



885. Cantacader quinquecostatus, Fieb. (Taphrostethus) Ent. 

 Monogr. p. 41, pi. iii, ff. 18-22 (1844). 

 Monanthia subovata, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxvi (3), 

 p. 91 (1863) ; StSI (Cantacader), En. Hem. iii, p. 116 (1873). 



