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anterior angle, sides straight, margins broadly reflexed, terminat- 

 ing posteriorly in a tooth ; hinder angles rounded ; hinder sides de- 

 flected ; posterior margin straight ; disk in front, raised into a short, 

 central, longitudinal keel, on each side of which is a furrow ex- 

 tending to the anterior angle, on the inner side of the process. 

 Scutellum nearly as long as the abdomen, but not so wide ; convex, 

 subquadrangular, rounded behind, sides slightly sinuate. Elytra: 

 Corium ; the portion uncovered by the scutellum alone coriaceous, 

 the rest membranous ; Membrane with 5 long nerves. Sternum 

 without rostral channel ; Prosternum on each side with a transverse 

 channel. Legs short, stout ; tibia with short hairs, 1st pair angu- 

 lated ; tarsi hairy beneath, 2nd joint very small. 



Abdomen convex above and beneath ; Connexivum narrow, the 

 sides posteriorly not covered by scutellum or elytra. 



Species 1. PODOPS INTJNCTUS. 



CIMEX INUNCTTJS, Fad. E. S. iv, 90. 45 (1794) ; Panz. F. G. 36, 24 ; 



Wolff, Ic. Cim. 5, t. 1, fig. 5 (1800). 

 TETYRA INTJNCTA et TANGIRA, Fab. S. R. 139, 53 & 138, 49 (1803). 



TANGIRA, Fall. Hem. Suec. 16, 7 (1829). 



- PODOPS INUNCTUS, Lap. Hem. 72 (1832) ; Burnt. Handb. ii, 387, 2 

 (1835) ; Spin. Hem. 372, 1 (1837) ; Germ. Zeits. i, 

 63,1 (1839); Am. et Serv. H^m. 57, 1 (1843); 

 Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 78 (1860) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 

 350 (1861). 



TETYRA JNUNCTA, H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i, 53 & 89 (1835). 

 PODOPS TANGIRTJS, Germ. Zeits. i, 66, 6 (1839). 



? SICULTJS, Costa. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x, 301, 12, pi. 6, fig. 8 

 (1841). 



Dull, dark luteous, thickly black-punctate, smooth. 



Head black, rugosely punctured, central lobe elevated into a keel, 

 margin of side lobes rounded and reflexed. Underside black, rugosely 

 punctured. Antenna black, subpilose ; 1st joint piceous, the base 

 and tip of all the joints (except the tip of the 5th) narrowly luteous. 

 Eyes and ocelli black. Rostrum luteous ; terminal joint black. 



Thorax. Pronotum dark luteous, thickly and deeply black-punc- 

 tured, the punctures in irregular, transverse, sinuous rows ; the 

 process at the anterior angles securiform ; posterior to the frontal 

 furrow, a transverse, slightly raised, sinuous line ; before this line, by 



