Cimicede. 19! 
(16) 5. Cell of the wing with a hook-like nerve. 
(15) 6, Pronotum with a distinct apical collar. 
(10) 7. Apex of the metasternum between the 
cox widely truncate. 
(9) 8. Rostrum reaching to the intermediate 
coxe . TEMNOSTETHUS. 
(8) 9. Rostrum not reaching beyond ‘the centre 
of the mesothorax . ; EvatorHi.us. 
(7) 10. Apex of metasternum rounded and nar- 
rower. 
(14) 11. Rostrum short, hardly reaching beyond 
the anterior coxa. 
(13) 12. Apical collar of pronotum long, sides 
emdoly diverging from it . ANTHOCORIS. 
(12) 13. Apical collar short, sides widely rounded 
behind it : TETRAPHLEPS, 
(11) 14. Rostrum reaching to the intermediate 
coxe . Acompocoris, 
(6) 15, Pronotum without a ‘distinct collar . TRIPALEPS. 
(5) 16. Cell of the wing without a hook-like 
nerve. 
(20) 17. Species robust, pubescent. 
(19) 18. Head short, scarcely longer than its 
width between the eyes : BRACHYSTELES. 
(18) 19. Head much longer than its width between 
the eyes ; CaRDIASTETHUS. 
(17) 20. Species elongate, glabrous, parallel- sided Xyzoconis. 
LYCTOCORIS, Hahn. 
There is only one species of this genus, which may be 
known by the following characters. Head across the eyes 
as wide as long, narrower than the front of the pronotum; 
ocelli situated near the inner margins of the eyes; antenn 
with the first joint short, reaching to about the apex of the 
face, second thickened towards the apex, third and fourth 
subequal, very thin and pilose; rostrum long, reaching to 
the apex of the metasternum; pronotum subtrapeziform, 
with its anterior margin sinuate, base sinuate; scutellum 
large, impressed in the centre; elytra broad and flat, 
nervures of the membrane very feebly indicated; legs 
simple. 
L. campestris, Muh. (domesticus, D. § S.)—Testaceous 
brown, dull, base of the elytra and a spot near the apex 
