ANTHOCORID.E. 507 



reaching to the sides, hindwardly flatter, slightly depressed in the 

 middle ; hinder angles deflected. Scutellum with a wide, central de- 

 pression. Elytra flattish, a little widened posteriorly ; anterior margin 

 sinuate to the cuneus, there but slightly constricted ; Embolium 

 beyond the middle suddenly widened, its anterior margin strongly 

 reflexed ; Clavus deflected to the corium ; claval suture deeply de- 

 pressed ; Cuneus and Membrane deflected ; Membrane with 4 nerves, 

 the 2 middle ones slight, at the base approximating each other and 

 the 4th. Sternum ; Mesosternum hindwardly raised, very obtusely 

 angled; Metasternum cordate, from the base very convex, with a 

 middle keel. Legs rather long ; tarsi very slender, on the last pair 

 the 2nd joint more than twice as long as the 1st. 



Species 1. CARDIASTETHUS TESTACEUS. 



ANTHOCOEIS TESTACEUS, Muls. Ann. Soc. Lin. 105 (1852). 

 CAKDIASTETHUS TESTACEUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 141, 1 (1861). 



Above light reddish-brown, with fine, rather long, yellowish hairs ; 

 beneath brown. Legs brownish-yellow. 



Head smooth. Antennae finely haired ; 1st and 2nd joints brownish- 

 yellow, the end of the 2nd brown ; 3rd and 4th piceous. Eyes 

 black. Ocelli red. Rostrum yellow. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; the callosity smooth, the remainder finely 

 punctured. Scutellum delicately punctured. Elytra ; Embolium in- 

 wardly, Cuneus outwardly, piceous ; Membrane fuscous, with a yellow 

 spot next the apex of the cuneus. Sternum ; Prosternum brownish- 

 yellow; Meso- and Metasternum brown. Legs brownish-yellow; 

 tarsi; 2nd and 3rd joints dusky. 



Length, 1 line. 



Bare. One specimen captured by Mr. Ernest Adams, locality not 

 recorded, and another in our possession of which also the locality is 

 unknown. 



Genus 9. XYLOCORIS, L. Duf. 



Narrow, elongate, linear, flat. 



Head elongate, narrowed behind the eyes into a short neck; 



