20 LYG^EINA. 



FAMILY 1 PY 



Oval. Head from above 5-sided, from the side thick, convex. 

 Rostrum reaching to the end of the metasternum ; first joint as long 

 as the head. Pronotum trapeziform. Fore thighs thick, with small 

 spines. 



Abdomen. Genital segments in both sexes short ; on the upper side, in 

 the $, only the margin of the horizontal portion of the third segment is 

 visible; in the 9 the second and third are visible. On the underside, in 

 the <J, a large portion of the second, and the whole of the third are 

 visible, both very convex, the posterior margin of the third suddenly and 

 broadly horizontal : in the $ nearly all the space beyond the sixth ab- 

 dominal segment is occupied by the first genital segment, which appears 

 as two broad plates closely joined, in the centre of the space, in a deep, 

 wide furrow, the sides being convex ; the posterior margin widely notched ; 

 here the third segment appears in the centre, narrow and concave, with a 

 central ridge, the space at each side being filled by the small, curved plate 

 of the second segment. Gen. 1, Pyrrhocoris. 



SECTION ^. 



Lygoeodes, Burm. 

 Lygoeidae, Westw. 

 Lygoeodse, Flor, Fieb. 

 Infericornes, p., Am. et Serv. 

 Infericornia, p., Doll. 



Structure more or less stout, of a hard consistence. Antennae 

 4-jointed, inserted under (sometimes on) a line drawn from the eye 

 to the base of the labrum. Ocelli 2. Membrane of the elytra with 

 four or five simple nerves. Tarsi trimerous (except in Zosmoridce). 



Abdomen. The genital segments differ in the Families. 



FAMILY 1. RHYPAROCHROMID^E. 



Head convex, triangular in front. Antennae : first and fourth joints 

 generally the thickest, the first shortest, the second usually the 



