246 *Mr. J. O. Westwood’s Descriptions 
This is the largest species of this group of Scutedleride hitherto 
detected, and which, in the comparative proximity of the ocelli, 
enters into Serville and Amyot’s first division of the group, sub- 
family or genus. From the other subgenera it differs in the broad 
subdepressed form, with the head prominent, nearly semicircular, 
subconcave above, with a depressed mesial line terminating in a 
bifid impression, and with the hind part of the head considerably 
elongated, forming a kind of neck, which is received in the deep 
emargination of the front of the prothorax. The antenne are 
4-jointed, exclusive of the radicle between the first and second 
joints; the promuscis extends to between the middle feet; the 
body above is destitute of gloss, with the front half of the pro- 
thorax elevated into four slight bosses; the sides are nearly 
rounded, but with a slight angulation in the middle; the base of 
the scutellum is transversely raised in the middle, giving the 
appearance of a distinct very broad short scutellum; across the 
middle of the scutellum extends a paler very obsolete fascia, and 
beyond this are two short nearly obsolete transverse paler streaks. 
The feet are comparatively slender; the abdomen beneath is not 
flat, but has a longitudinally central raised part; the spiracles are 
distinct at the sides of the abdomen within the lateral margins of 
its ventral surface. ‘The appearance of the anal portion is repre- 
sented in the figure, which leads me to infer that the specimen 
before me is a male. As this species will not enter any of the 
subgenera Thyreocoris, as restricted by Serville and Amyot, Hete- 
rocrales, Ceratocoris or Aphanopneuma, 1 have been obliged to form 
it into a separate subgenus, which, from the resemblance of the 
insect to certain Heteromerous beetles, I have named Cantharodes. 
Plate XVIII. fig. 3, the insect slightly magnified; 3a, extremity of the 
abdomen; 30, underside of abdomen. 
Eumenotes, Westw. 
Corpus depressum, oblongum. Capué latum, antice cornubus 
duobus planis truncatis, alterisque duobus ante oculos arma- 
tum. Anienne satis crasse, 4-articulate ; articulo 2ndo reliquis 
longiori, 4to ovali praecedenti parum breviorl. Promuscis ad 
pedes posticos extensa, 4-articulata, articulo 2ndo reliquis 
longiori, alteris tribus longitudine equalibus. Prothoraz antice 
lateribus rectis, haud capite latior, postice utrinque in angulum 
parum productus. Hemelytrorum corium vena furcata in- 
structum, membrana multi-areolata, marginibus abdominis 
haud tegentia. Pedes simplices, 
