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middle ; Metasternmn convex, centre prominently angled. Legs ; 

 tarsi ; 3rd joint longest ; 1st and 2nd of almost equal length. 



Species 1. MONALOCORIS FILICIS. 



CIMEX FILICIS, Lin. S. N. 718, 20 (1767). 



ACANTHIA FILICIS, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 46, t. 5, fig. 43 (1801). 



PHYTOCOEIS Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 108, 61 (1829) ; Hahn, Wanz. ii, 



86, fig. 172 (1831). 

 CAPSUS Meyer Dur, Caps. 71, 43 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 



113, 50 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 70, 76 (1855). 

 BEYOCORIS Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 129, 115 (1857). 



CAPSUS (CAPSUS) FILICIS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. 539, 39 (1860). 

 MONALOCOKIS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 237 (1861). 



Pitchy-brown, shining ; clothed with fine, short, depressed, golden 

 yellow hairs. 



Head pale reddish, or ochreous-yellow. Antennae ; 1st and 2nd 

 joints pale yellowish ; apex of the latter, and the 3rd and 4th pitchy- 

 black ; base of the 3rd narrowly yellowish. Eyes black. Rostrwn 

 ochreous-yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotutn piceous, or pitchy-black, thickly but finely 

 punctured ; anterior margin frequently, and hinder angles, ochreous- 

 yellow. Scutellum piceous, finely wrinkled transversely. Elytra; 

 Clavus ochreous-yellow ; inner margin, suture, and base of the nerve 

 pitchy-black ; Corium ; anterior margin ochreous-yellow, the colour 

 generally spreading a little way on the disk at the apex ; Cuneus 

 yellowish ; Membrane fuscous, iridescent ; Cell-nerve brown. Legs 

 pale yellow; thighs on the upper side, near the middle, with a 

 blackish spot ; tarsi yellow ; 3rd joint and claws blackish. 



Length, 1 line. 



Common everywhere, on Pteris aquilina, and other plants, by 

 sweeping and beating, in July, August, and September. 



