500 ANTHOCORINA. 



Abdomen pitchy brown, the edges of the segments often luteous. 



Length, 1J line. 



Common in autumn and winter in the refuse of corn-stacks, &c. 



Genus 5. PIEZOSTETHUS, Fieb. 



Head short, broad ; Crown quadrangular ; Face in front obtuse, 

 the lobes wide, and of equal length. Antennae; 1st and 2nd joints 

 stout, 1st cylindrical, 2nd gradually clavate, about 2- times as long 

 as the 1st ; 3rd and 4th thin, filiform, in length subequal. Eyes 

 small, not reaching to the base of the head. Ocelli distant, near the 

 base of the eyes. Rostrum reaching to or rather beyond the base of 

 the mesosternum ; 1st joint about \ the length of the head ; 2nd 

 about 2-J times longer than the 1st ; 3rd about as long as the 1st. 



Thorax. Pronotum trapezoidal ; anterior margin straight, the 

 angles rounded and depressed; sides almost straight, the margins 

 recurved beneath ; hinder angles acute ; posterior margin slightly 

 concave ; disk without a transverse callosity, in front convex, hind- 

 wardly flatter. Scutellum large, slightly convex, with a large, wide, 

 central depression. Elytra, when developed, larger than the abdo- 

 men ; Clamis slightly deflected outwardly, claval suture depressed ; 

 Coriwn flat, anterior margin straight ; Cuneus suddenly deflected ; 

 Membrane, with 1 nerve at the corner of the cell. Sternum; 

 Mesosternum in front, under the coxae, depressed ; posteriorly wide, 

 convex, rounded, with a central linear depression ; Metasternum ; 

 base depressed, middle compressed, arched, keeled, hindwardly flat- 

 tened ; xyphus rhomboidal, pointed. Legs ; thighs strong ; 1st pair 

 thickest ; tibia thickened to the end, with projecting hairs. 



Abdomen beneath, 1st segment with a short point in front. 



Species 1. PIEZOSTETHUS GALACTINTJS. 



ANTHOCORIS GALACTINTJS, Fieb. Weit. Beitr. i, 107, 7 (1836). 

 PTJLCHELLTJS, Zett, Ins. Lap. 265, 3 (1840). 



XYLOCORIS ALBIPENNIS, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 171, t. 315, fig. 971 (1850) ; 

 Bar. Berl. Ent. Zeits. ii, 194 (1858) ; Flor, 

 Rhyn. Liv. i, 669, 3 (1860). 



PIEZOSTETHUS GALACTINTJS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 139, 1 (1861). 



Black, shining ; clavus and corium yellowish, rather dull ; membrane 

 white, lustrous. 



