PACHYTAESUS. 9 



Subfamily 11. MICROPHYSIN^. 



Micropliysina, Rent. Act. Soc, Set. Fenn. xiv, pp. 658 & 723 (1885). 



I recognize this subfamily by the characters of a four-jointed 

 rostrum and two-jointed tarsi. 



One geuus alone can now be enumerated, and that with some 

 hesitation, as the condition of the type of Pachytarsus, Fieb., kindly 

 forwarded to me from the Paris Museum for examination, was 

 somewhat imperfect in respect to the characters relied on for the 

 subfamily. 



Genus PACHYTARSUS. 



Pachytarsus, Fieb. Wien. ent. Monatschr. iv, p. 262 (1860) ; id. 

 Eur. Hem. p. 37 (1861); Rent. Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. xiv, p. 757 

 (1885). 



Type, P. crassicornis, Pieb. 



Distribution. British India. 



Wings provided with a hamus in the cell. Pronotum with an 

 anterior annuliform transverse stricture ; tarsi robust, short ; 

 rostrum reaching the apex of the prosternum, four-jointed, first 

 joint short ; antennae with the third and fourth joints distinctly 

 thickened ; mesosternum convex, anteriorly between coxae acutely 

 prolonged, posteinorly narrowed, rounded and impressed, nearly 

 bilobate ; metasternum nearly semilunar, margin convex ; embolium 

 narrow; membrane with three veins equally distant from one 

 another ; tarsi apparently two-jointed, but type specimens not in 

 sufficiently good condition for exact determination. 



1480. Pachytarsus crassicornis, Fieb. Wien. ent. Monatschr. iv. 

 p. 269, pi. vi, t]g. E (1860). 



Piceous-black ; hemelytra sordidy fla- 

 voiis, behind embolium to interior angle 

 of corium fuscous ; membrane unicolorous, 

 fusco-fuliginous ; antennae piceous, mode- 

 rately setose, apex of last joint whitish ; 

 rostrum fuscous, apex of second joint 

 and the whole of third joint flavescent ; 

 femora and tibiae fuscous ; tarsi some- 

 times, apices of anterior femora and the 

 anterior tibiae flavous. 



Length 2^ millim. 



Hah. " India orientalis.'' 



I am greatly indebted to M. Joanny 

 Martin, of the Paris Museum, for the 

 pjg g opportunity of figuring the type of this 



Pachytarsus crasdcornis. species. 



