BERYTIDiE. 421 



Family BERYTID^. 



This family is readily distinguished from the Coreidse by the 

 long and slender legs, with the nodulosely clavate apices of the 

 femora. 



The Berytidse have been often treated as a section of the family 

 Coreidoe, as by Dallas and Uhler, and by the present writer in the 

 ' Biologia Centrali-Americana,' but the consensus of opinion is 

 now in favour of separation, and that view is here adopted. Stfd 

 (En. Hem. iv, p. 127, 1874) incorporated the Berytidse with the 

 Lygoeidee. The family is not a large one, and we know most about 

 the Palaearctic species, which have been more assiduously collected, 

 their small size and fragile structure having apparently caused them 

 to be overlooked by tropical collectors. This is evident by the 

 paucity of our knowledge concerning tlie species in British India ; 

 of these only three can now be enumerated, two of which represent 

 new genera. The Berytidae are probably universally distributed. 



Synopsis of Genera. 



A. Posterior femora not reaching apex of 



abdomen; hemelytra shorter than abdomen. Paleologus, p. 421. 



B, Posterior femora reaching or passing apex of 



abdomen ; hemelytra not shorter than 

 abdomen. 

 a. Pronotum convex, its anterior lateral mar- 

 gins sinuate Metacanthus, p. 422. 



f}. Pronotum long, subquadrate, its lateral 



margins straight Hubertiella, p. 423. 



Genus PALEOLOGUS, nov. 



Type, P.feanus, Dist. 



Distribution. Burma. 



Body long, narrow; posterior femora not reaching apex of 

 abdomen ; hemelytra much shorter than abdomen ; head deflected 

 anteriorly, with two spines at apex, and a longer spine above them 

 starting from between the antennal bases, gradually narrowed and 

 pointed and extending considerably beyond the lower apical spines ; 

 pronotum longer than the head, subquadrate, a strong spine directed 

 forward at lateral basal angles of anterior lobe, and a similar spine 

 directed backward at each lateral angle, and a long, more up- 

 wardly directed spine near basal centre ; scutellum armed with a 

 long backwardly directed spine ; hemelytra extending a little 

 beyond the middle of abdomen, the upper surface of which is 



