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central channel ; Mesostermim convex, with a deep central channel ; 

 posterior margin convex, indented in the middle ; Metasternum 

 raised into a callosity in the centre, angle shortened. Legs long 

 and thin ; hinder pair longest ; tarsi short ; 2nd and 3rd joints of 

 the 3rd pair of almost equal length ; l*t shortest. 



Species 1. ^ETORHINUS ANGULATUS. 



PHYTOCORIS ANGULATUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 80, 8 (1829) ; Zett, Ins. 



Lap. 272, 6 (1839). 

 CAPSUS ~ H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 75, fig. 292 (1836) ; Meyer 



Caps. 89, 72 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Pen. 



97, 12 (1848); Kirschb. Caps. 43, 27 



(1855). 

 POLYMEKUS (BLEPHOKIDOPTERUS) ANGULATUS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 108, 



82 (1845). 



CAPSUS (CAPSUS) ANGULATUS, Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 477, 6 (1860). 

 ANGULATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hemp. 285 (1861). 



Green or yellowish-green, sparingly clothed with fine, almost erect, 

 yellowish- white hairs. 



Head shining ; antenniferous processes pale yellow. Antennae 

 yellowish ; 1st joint at the base, and sometimes the apex, black, con- 

 nected on the underside by a narrow streak of the same colour, 

 with a few erect, somewhat spinose, brown hairs ; extreme apex pale 

 yellow ; 2nd yellowish, extreme base pale yellow, followed by a black 

 ring ; apex brownish ; 3rd and 4th brownish or piceous. Rostrum 

 yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotiim shining, with a transverse channel behind the 

 anterior margin, not reaching to the sides, immediately followed by 

 2 callosities ; disk convex, transversely wrinkled, slightly flattened 

 in the centre, and deflected towards the callosities ; hinder angles 

 black. Scutellum greenish-yellow ; base almost flat, and strongly 

 deflected to the transverse channel. Elytra diaphanous ; Clavus ; 

 inner margin patchy black from the apex to the apical angle of the 

 BCutellum ; nerve and suture dark green ; disk from the inner mar- 

 gin to the nerve thickly covered with minute dark green spots ; base 

 narrowly yellowish ; Cerium ; anterior margin and inner angle dark 

 green ; disk between the 1st nerve and the anterior margin, especially 

 towards the apex, thickly covered with minute dark green spots ; 



