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Thorax. Pronotum somewhat campanulate, broader than long ; 

 anterior margin straight, angles rounded ; sides concave ; hinder 

 angles short, raised ; posterior margin concave, rounded towards and 

 at the hinder angles ; disk convex. Scutellum slightly raised above 

 the clavus, triangular, equilateral ; with a transverse channel near 

 the base. Elytra longer than the abdomen ; Clavw convex ; Corium 

 horizontal, flat as far as the junction with the cuneus and mem- 

 brane, which are deflected ; Cimeus long, triangular ; inner margin 

 somewhat rounded next the apex. Sternum : Prosternum ; xyphus 

 triangular, somewhat pointed, with a faint fovea in the middle ; 

 Mesosternum convex ; posterior margin with a notch in the middle ; 

 Metasternum convex. Legs long and thin ; 3rd pair longest ; tarsi 

 long ; 2nd joint longest, 2i times as long as the 1st ; 3rd shorter 

 than the 2nd. 



1. SPHTRACEPHALUS AMBULANS. 



CAPSUS AMBULANS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 126, 20 (1829) ; //. Schf. Wanz. 



109, figs. 335337 (1836); Meyer, Caps. 86, 



67 (1843); Zett. Ins. Lap. 279, 12 (1839) ; Sahib. 



Geoc. Fen. 94, 5 (1848); Kirschb. Caps. 76, 88 



(1855). 



CHLAMYDATUS OCHRIPES, Curt. Br. Ent. xv, 693 (1838). 

 CAPSUS (CAPSUS) AMBULANS, Flor, Eliyn, Liv. i, 577, 13 (1860). 

 MECOMMA AMBULANS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 284 (1861). 



<$ black, shining, clothed with fine white hairs. 



Head. Crown with a yellow or reddish-yellow spot on the hinder 

 part near each eye, often wanting in the $ . Antennae black, 

 clothed with fine, short, white hairs ; 3rd joint narrowly white at 

 the base. Rostrum yellowish or brownish-yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the anterior margin ; 

 hinder angles somewhat reflexed; disk somewhat thickly punc- 

 tured in the centre behind the callosities. Scutellum ; base 

 deflected to the transverse channel ; disk convex. Elytra diapha- 

 nous ; Clavus convex, finely punctured ; pitchy-brown from the 

 inner margin to the nerve ; between the latter and the suture 

 pale brownish-yellow; Corium; anterior margin exteriorly and in- 

 teriorly narrowly pitchy-brown, apex with a pitchy-black spot ; 

 margin of the inner angle brown; disk pale brownish-yellow; 



