480 MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 
Curt., is twisted and angulated at the tip; the same organs in Eu- 
cerocoris Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. (from Africa), are three times as 
long as the body. 

The tenth family, Lycaipa*, is of considerable extent, and consists 
of species mostly of small or moderate size, distinguished by having 
the antenne 4-jointed, with the terminal joint not thinner than the 
preceding, but not forming a terminal club as in the Coreide; they 
are inserted either beneath or at the margin of the head, in a line 
drawn from the eyes to the base of the rostrum. The body is gene- 
rally narrow ; the ocelli wanting in some groups+ ; the rostrum is of 
moderate length ( fig. 121. 10.), with the joints of nearly equal length; 
the apical membrane of the hemelytra is furnished with longitudinal 
nerves, but rarely exceeding five in number ; the tarsi are 3-jointed, 
with two pulvilli between the ungues. 
Many of these insects are exotic, and are remarkable for their varied 
colours, in which red or yellow and black are most conspicuous. These 
are mostly found upon plants. Others, however, of a smaller size and 
of obscure colours, are distinguished by having greatly thickened fore 
legs; these are found on the ground, at the roots of plants, &c. 
The typical genus Lygzeus, as restricted to the species varied with 
red, white, and black colours, and possessing ocelli (L. equestris, &c.), 
approach very closely to such of the Coreidz as Corizus Hyoscyami ; 
but the difference of the veining of the hemelytra sufficiently distin- 
guishes the two families. 
One of the species of this family exhibits, in a remarkable manner, 
the ordinary occurrence of an imperfect perfect state ; whilst occa- 
sionally individuals are found with perfectly developed organs of 

* Brptiocr. Rerer. to tHE Lycaipe. 
Dufur, in Ann. Soe. Ent. de France, vol. ii, and Annal. Sci. Nat. vol. xxii. 
(Xylocoris. ) 
Westwood, in Ann. Soe. Ent. de France, vol. iii. 
Schilling. Entomol. Beitrage. 
And the general works of Hahn, Guérin, Burmeister, Spinola, Herrich-Schiiffer, 
Perty, Boisduval. (Voy. Astrolabe.) 
+ Laporte has united the groups which have no ocelli with the Capside, forming 
them into an unnatural family named Astemmites. 
