36 ANTHOCORINA. 



SECTION 10. ANTHOCORINA* 



Lygaeodes, p., Burm. 

 Anthocorides, Am. et Serv. 

 Anthocoridea, Flor. 



Microphysse, Anthocoridae, Acanthiadae, and 

 Ceratocombidae, Fieb. 



Antenna slender, 4-jointed, inserted below the eye-line. Ocelli 2 

 or 0. Rostrum 3 or 4-jointed; free (except in Acanthiidte). 

 Elytra often abbreviated; when developed, with Clavus, Corium, 

 Embolium, Cuneus, and Membrane (except in the Families Acan- 

 thiida and Ceratocombidce, which are aberrant). Wings often 

 wanting. Tarsi 2 or 3-jointed. 



FAMILY 1. MICROPHYSID^. 



Antenna filiform. Ocelli 2; large and prominent in $, very 

 small in 9. Rostrum 4-jointed; first joint very short. Elytra in 

 the $ longer than the abdomen; Corium with long Embolium; 

 Cuneus triangular; Membrane in the middle of its base, with one 

 semi-oval cell, from which spring three short nerves and one nerve 

 at the inner side of the cell, or near the inner basal angle ; in the ? 

 the Elytra are short, sometimes not so long as the abdomen, some- 

 times only rudimentary ; Clavus and Membrane undeveloped. Tarsi 

 2-jointed, the first very short. 



Abdomen. In $ cylindrical, pointed ; in 9 broad, short, longitudinally 

 or transversely oval. Gen. 1, Myrmedobia; 2, Zygonotus. 



FAMILY 2. ANTHOCORIDJE. 



Head, from the side, almost conical. Antenna 4-jointed; the 

 second joint sometimes thickened to the apex ; the third and fourth 

 filiform or thin fusiform. Ocelli 2, sometimes very small in the ?. 

 Rostrum 3-jointed. Pronotum trapezoidal. Scutellum large. Elytra 



* Fieber has characterised and figured most of the genera in the ' Wiener 

 Entom. Monatsschrift/ 1860. 



