GLOBICEPID^:. 363 



convex, margined ; apex depressed. Legs long and thin, hinder pair 

 longest ; tarsi short ; 2nd joint of the 3rd pair longer than the 3rd ; 

 1st shortest. 



Species 1. GLOBICEPS SELECTUS. 



GLOBICEPS SELECTUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 284, 6 (1861). 



Black, sparingly clothed with very short, silver- white hairs ; Cuneus, 

 apex black ; $ long oval, with undeveloped elytra. 



<$ Head shining ; Crown level with the upper margin of the eyes. 

 Antennas; 1st joint brownish-yellow or brownish-red, base black, 

 apex frequently piceous; 2nd black; 3rd and 4th piceous or 

 brownish. Eyes black. Rostrum brownish or reddish-yellow ; 1st 

 joint and tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; callosities very prominent; space between 

 the latter flattish ; sides, to behind the latter, convex, from thence 

 straight ; hinder angles not raised nor reflexed ; posterior margin 

 almost straight in the middle, rounded towards and at the hinder 

 angles; disk convex, transversely wrinkled, deflected to the cal- 

 losities. Scutellwn, from the base to the transverse channel, convex, 

 smooth ; disk convex, transversely wrinkled. Elytra : Corium ; 

 anterior margin pale brownish-yellow, base for a short distance 

 black, apex more or less brown ; disk with a large, pale-yellowish 

 white, triangular patch, palest next the claval suture, base narrowly 

 black, apex with a broad pitchy-brown band, somewhat irregular, 

 and shaded off into brownish-yellow on the inner margin; Cuneus 

 broadly pale yellowish-white at the base; Membrane blackish, 

 iridescent ; the inner cell, apical nerve of the latter and a narrow 

 patch below the inner margin of the cuneus to the anterior margin, 

 white, immediately below which is a large, triangular dark patch ; 

 anterior margin rounded below the cuneus, leaving a distinct notch ; 

 inner marginal and cell-nerves pitchy brown, outer one, towards the 

 apex, exteriorly margined with piceous, apex exteriorly white. Legs 

 reddish, or pitchy brown ; tJiigJis narrowly paler at the apex ; tibiae 

 sometimes pale brownish-yellow, with a few short, fine, erect, pale 

 hairs; apex of all the pairs narrowly piceous; tarsi brown; 3rd 

 joint and claws black ; 1st frequently piceous. 



Length, 2| 3 lines. 



