118 COREINA. 



Thorax. Pronotum deflected, almost flat, subtrapeziform ; the 

 sides nearly straight ; hinder angles acute and slightly raised ; the 

 posterior margin rounded at the ends ; both the sides and the pos- 

 terior margin as far as the scutellum, set with strong projecting 

 spines, each with a hair arising before its apex ; disk rugose, with 

 very short obtuse tubercles, each ending with a hair ; within the 

 posterior margin suddenly deflected towards the latter. Scutellum 

 horizontal, small, triangular; the posterior angle prolonged; the 

 sides with fine, short spines. Elytra as long as the abdomen ; Clavus 

 deflected to the corium ; Corium ; the anterior margin nearly 

 straight, reflexed ; the 1st nerve strong, raised ; the disk rugose- 

 punctate; Membrane filled with nerves, of which 6 arise from a 

 cross nerve, between which and the posterior margin of the corium 

 is left a wide quadrangular cell ; beyond their origin the nerves throw 

 out several branches and cross nervures. Sternum with a rostral 

 channel, deepest on the pro- and metasternum. Legs short, hinder 

 thighs longest, incrassate, spined on the underside ; tarsi ; the 1st 

 joint as long as the other two together. 



Abdomen above flat, beneath convex, posteriorly somewhat ridged ; 

 the last segment deeply cut out, roundly in the $ , angularly in the 

 ? . Connexivum not covered by the elytra, broad, reflexed, rounded ; 

 on the margin each segment produced into a small, acute tooth ; 

 the last segment, in both sexes, posteriorly produced at each side 

 into a broad obtuse spine, which is nearly straight on the inner 

 side. Genital segments ; in the <$ scarcely visible above ; on the 

 underside one is visible, convex, rounded, ending with a small 

 tubercle. In the $ , above, two segments are seen, the 1st narrow, 

 2nd with the sides sloping inwards, and posteriorly truncate; on 

 the underside the 1st segment is lozenge-shaped, projecting on to 

 the 3rd, which is convex and narrow, the end truncate, and not 

 extending beyond the points of the connexivum ; of the 2nd, the 

 prolonged sides only are visible, lying on the sides of the 3rd. 



Species 1. COREUS HIRTICORNIS. 



CORETJS HIRTICORNIS, Fab. E. S. iv, 131, 17 (1794); S. R. 198, 31 

 (1803); Panz. F. G. 92, 17; Le P. et Serv. 

 Enc. x, 59, 1 (1825); Fall. Hem. Suec., 37, 3 

 (1829) ; Ramb. F. And. 135, 5 (1842) ; Am. et 

 Serv. Hem. 238, 1 (1843). 



