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line with the middle of the eyes ; antenniferous processes short, 

 in a line with the middle of the lower half of the eyes ; Face ; cen- 

 tral lobe longish, convex ; side lobes short, narrow. Antenna 

 shorter than the body ; 1st joint stout, shorter than the head ; 2nd 

 3y to 4 times as long as the 1st, in the $ stouter than the ? , and 

 very slightly thickened to the apex ; ? slightly clavate ; 3rd and 

 4th filiform, 3rd -frds the length of the 2nd, 4th f rds the length of 

 the 3rd. Eyes large, viewed from above somewhat hemispherical, 

 from the side oval. Rostrum reaching beyond the 3rd pair of coxae ; 

 1st joint reaching to the middle of the xyphus of the prosternum. 



Thorax. Pronotim short, trapezoidal, twice as broad across the 

 posterior margin as long, with 2 more or less distinct callosities in 

 front ; anterior margin straight, very slightly indented in the 

 middle, angles rounded ; sides convex ; hinder angles short, some- 

 what obtuse ; posterior margin straight ; disk convex, deflected to 

 the head. Scutellum convex, triangular, almost equilateral, level 

 with or slightly raised above the clavus, with a transverse channel 

 near the base. Elytra longer than the abdomen; Clavus convex, 

 deflected to the corium ; Corium flattish convex ; horizontal as far 

 as the junction with the cuneus and membrane, which are deflected ; 

 Cuneus triangular. Sternum: Prosternum; xyphus short, trian- 

 gular, sides convex ; Mesosternum convex, shortened posteriorly, 

 posterior margin convex, slightly notched in the middle; Meta- 

 sternum in the middle short angled, margin somewhat raised. 

 Legs : thighs ; 3rd pair stout ; tarsi slender ; 2nd joint longer than 

 the 3rd. 



Species 1. PSALLUS SALICELLUS. 



CAPSUS SALICELLUS, Meyer, Caps. 74, 47 (1843) ; H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 47, 



fig. 605 (1842). 



(CAPSUS) SALICELLUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 590, 72 (1860). 

 PSALLUS SALICELLUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 305, 1 (1861). 



Grayish-yellow, generally with a reddish tinge, clothed with fine, 

 short, depressed, silver-white hairs, somewhat disposed in irre- 

 gular patches. Elytra thickly and irregularly spotted with 

 brown, leaving the intermediate spaces of a somewhat round 

 form. Thighs ; 3rd pair broadly brown at the apex. 



Head. Antenna 'yellowish ; 1st joint at the base and before the 



