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keel ; Clypeus convex ; base a little below the anterior margin of the 

 eyes, apex very slightly produced, almost in a line with the very 

 short antenniferous processes ; the latter in a line with the lower 

 margin of the eyes ; Face ; central lobe short, stout, convex ; side 

 lobe very short, narrow. Antennce shorter than the body ; 1st joint 

 clavate, much shorter than the head ; 2nd, 3 times longer than the 

 1st, slightly thickened to the apex ; 3rd and 4th filiform, together 

 longer than the 2nd, 3rd, frds the length of the 2nd, 4th, about 

 frds the length of the 3rd. Eyes large, viewed from above almost 

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

 2nd pair of coxae ; 1st joint stout, reaching to the xyphus of the 

 prosternum. 



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

 posterior margin as long, sometimes with 2 callosities behind the 

 anterior margin ; the latter straight, angles rounded ; sides convex ; 

 hinder angles short, somewhat acute ; posterior margin concave ; 

 disk flattish convex, slightly deflected to the head. Scutellum trian- 

 gular, equilateral, level with the clavus, with a transverse channel 

 near the base ; anterior portion flattish, very slightly deflected to 

 the transverse channel ; hinder portion flattish convex. Elytra ; in 

 developed examples, longer than the abdomen; in undeveloped 

 examples, not covering more than half the abdomen ; in the latter 

 case, the clavus is not distinct from the corium, and the cuneus and 

 membrane are wanting : in developed examples the Clavus convex, 

 deflected to the corium ; Corium horizontal, convex ; cuneus and 

 membrane slightly deflected ; Cuneus longish, triangular ; base 

 broad. Sternum : Prosternum ; xyphus triangular, very convex in 

 front; Mesosternum convex, flattish in the middle, somewhat ele- 

 vated posteriorly, and with a central channel ; posterior margin 

 rounded ; Metasternum convex, in the middle short angled. Legs 

 saltatorial ; thighs ; 3rd pair stout, flattened on the sides ; tarsi of 

 the 3rd pair long, thin ; 2nd joint shorter than the 3rd ; 1st about 

 frds the length of the 2d. 



Species 1. AGALLIASTES PULICARIUS. 



PHYTOCORIS PULICARIUS, Fall. Mon. Giro. 95, 81 (1807). 

 CAPSUS SALIENS, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 200, tab. 20, fig. 194 (1811). 

 PHYTOCORIS PULICARIUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 113, 71 (1829). 

 ATTUS HaAa, Wanz. i, 117, fig. 62 (1831); Jiunu. 



Handb. ii, 227, 2 (1835). 



