t>i.*2 HEDUVIID.i:. 



Genus PEOSTEMMA. 



Prostemma, Lap. Ess. Hem. p. l/j (18->2) ; JJxrm. ILamlh. ii, p. 241 



(^1835) : Stein, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. i, p. 86 (1857). 

 Postemma. L. Dufour, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi: 1834, p. 349. 

 Metastemma, Amy. ^ Serv. Hem. ]). 327 (1843): Fieh. Eur. Hem. 



pp. 43 & 157 (1861) ; StM, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 39 (1865). 

 Nabis, Lutr. (part.) (ren. iii, p. 1 27 (1807) ; Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 107 



(1873). 

 Subg. Poecilta. StSi, En. Hem. iii, p. 108 (1873). 



„ Scelotrichia, Bent. Bev. d'Ent. ix, p. 291 (1890). 



Type, P. fjuttxCla, Fabr., a Palaearctic species. 



Dlstrihv.tion. Palsearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental Eegious. 



Body oblong or subelongate, narrowed anteriorly ; bead before 

 eyes subconically produced, posterior margin of eyes touclung ante- 

 rior margin of pronotum: ocelli present; antennae finely hirsute, 

 first joint short, not or oidy just passing apex of bead; rostrum 

 longer than bead ; pronotum longer than broad, or about as long 

 as broad, transversely constricted behind middle, base slightly 

 sinuate : scutellum subecpiilateral ; hemelytra complete or some- 

 times abbreviated; legs of moderate length, anterior femora 

 moderately incrassated, beneath densely spinidose ; anterior tibia' 

 shorter than the femora, incrassated at apices, the apex obliquely 

 truncate and pro^'ided with an apical spongy furrow. 



13f')2. Prostenmia carduelis, Dokm, Sfett. ent. Zeit. xix, p. 229, pi. i, 

 fig-. 8 (1858); >Stal (Pcecilta), En. Hem. iii, p. 108 (1873); 

 Disf. A. M. N. H. (7) xi, p. 253 (1903). 

 Prostemma placens, IJ'cilk. Cat. Het. vii, p. 137 (1873), 



Fig. 2i9.^Pros/e/n'»ia carduelis. 



Black ; posterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, clavus, and base 

 of corium pale sanguineous or testaceous ; a transverse spot near 

 centre of corium, another near its apex, and apex of membrane 

 greyish-white ; apices of anterior femora, and bases and apices of 

 remaining femora, tibiae, and tarsi ochraceous, the tibiae sometimes 

 brownish-ochraceoiis ; posterior lobe of ])ronotum with scattered 



