514 ANTHOCORINA. 



Mesosternum obtuse, prominent, with a rostral channel ; Metasternum 

 obtuse, depressed. Legs rather long and stout, 2nd pair shortest ; 

 thighs flattened ; tibia ; 1st pair thin, widened to the apex ; tarsi ; 

 3rd pair thinner and longer than the others, 1st joint very short ; 

 claws very short. 



Species 1. CERATOCOMBUS MUSCORUM. 



? ANTHOCORIS COLEOPTRATA, Zett, Act. Holm. 174, 24 (1819). 

 BRYOCORIS MUSCORUM, Fall. Hem. Suec. 153, 3 (1829). 

 ASTEMMA MULSANTI, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me ser. x, 541, pi. 



16, fig. 3 (1852). 

 LICHENOBIA FERRUGINEA, J3aerens, Berl. Ent. Zeits. 167 (1857). 



MUSCORUM, Baerens, Berl. Ent. Zeits. 189 (1858). 



CERATOCOMBUS MUSCORUM, Fiel. Wien. Ent. Monats. iv, 267, t. 6, fig. T 

 (1860) ; Europ. Hem. 143 (1861). 



Smooth, slightly shining ; sides of head and front oipronotum with a 

 few long projecting hairs. 



Head. Crown piceous or black; Face piceous. Antenna pale 

 or yellowish-piceous, with long dark hairs ; 2nd joint darker 

 before, but yellowish at, the apex. Eyes brown. Rostrum yel- 

 lowish. 



Thorax. Pronotum black. Scutellum blackish -brown. Elytra 

 olive-brown. Legs yellowish ; tliiglis dusky on the edges. 



Abdomen beneath piceous, the edges of the segments yellowish. 



Length, 1 line. 



Rare. Found among moss on the ground at Ditchingham, 

 Norfolk, in August, and near Esher, Surrey, in September, 1864, by 

 Dr. Power, who tells us that examples are scarce and difficult to 

 distinguish on account of their prima facie resemblance to a Dipteron, 

 which occurs abundantly in their habitat. 



Genus 2. DIPSOCORIS, Halid. 



Head equilaterally triangular, seen from the side long triangular, 

 thick, obtuse. Antennae flagellate ; 1st joint stout, not reaching to 

 the end of the face ; 2nd almost twice as long as the 1st ; 3rd about 

 2f rds as long as the 2nd, filiform, thicker at the base ; 4th about 



