IDOLOCOROXE. 383 



Genus 6. MALACOCORIS, Fieb. 



Short, narrow, suboval, very delicate. 



Head almost vertical in front, wider across the eyes than long 

 transversely oval, but posteriorly produced into a neck; sides 

 rounded and narrowed towards the base ; behind the eyes a trans- 

 verse channel ; Crown convex ; Clypeus convex, overhanging the face, 

 apex in a line with the base of the antenna} ; antenniferous processes 

 short, in a line with the middle of the lower half of the eye ; Face 

 short, pointed ; central lobe convex ; side lobes very short, narrow, 

 somewhat parallel. Antennce ; 1st joint cylindrical, a little longer 

 than the pronotum ; 2nd thinner than the 1st, 3 times as long ; 

 3rd and 4th filiform, 3rd nearly as long as the 2nd, 4th | as long 

 as the 3rd. Eyes small, somewhat prominent, viewed from above 

 almost hemispherical, from the side, short oval. Rostrum reaching 

 to the 2nd abdominal segment ; 1st joint much shorter than the head. 



Thorax. Pronotum trapeziform, If times broader across the 

 posterior margin than long, with 2 callosities behind the slightly 

 indented anterior margin, angles rounded; sides straight; hinder 

 angles short, acute ; posterior margin concave ; disk convex, deflected 

 to the head. Scutellum large, triangular, convex, slightly raised 

 above the clavus ; with a transverse channel before the middle. 

 Elytra longer than the abdomen; Clavus convex, deflected to the 

 corium ; Corium horizontal, somewhat flattish ; cuneus and membrane 

 deflected ; Cuneus long, triangular. Sternum : Prosternwn ; xyphus 

 triangular, equilateral, with a deep fovea in the middle ; Mesosternum 

 convex; posterior margin convex, deeply notched in the middle; 

 Metasternum shortened in the middle, very convex. Legs long, 

 thin, 3rd pair longest. 



Species 1. MALACOCORIS CHLORIZANS. 



^ iu ^v, CHLORIZANS, Ponz. E. G. 18, 21 (1794). 

 PHYTOCORIS CHORIZANS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 82, 10 (1829). 



CAPSUS Meyer, tab. 4, fig. 4, 76, 50 (1843). 



CHLORIZANS, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 98, 13 (1848); Kirschb. Caps. 



73, 83 (1855). 



- (CAPSUS) CHLORIZANS, Flor, Rbyn. Liv. i, 551, 46 (1860). 

 ALACOCORIS CHLORIZANS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 322, 1 (1861). 



