CATALOGUE OF HEMIPTERA. 



PART II. 



Section I. GEOCORES. 



Tribe II. SUPER1CORNIA. 



Rostrum of 4 joints. Antennae of 4 joints, inserted on the 

 front, or on the sides of the head, generally above a line drawn 

 from the eyes to the base of the rostrum ; antenniferous tuber- 

 cles prominent. Ocelli 2. Scutellum generally small and trian- 

 gular, not reaching the base of the membrane of the elytra*. 

 Nervures of the membrane of the elytra always more than five, 

 generally numerous. Tarsi three-jointed ; the last joint furnished 

 with pulvilli. 



Coreus et Lygseus, p., Fab. Syst. Rh. (1803). 



Coreides, p., Leach, Ed. Enc. ix. (1815); Schill. Beitr. i. 36 



(1829); KoL Mel. Ent. ii. 43 (1845). 

 Corseus, Lam. Hist. Nat. iii. 494 (1816). 

 Anisoscelites et Coreites, Lap. Hem. 24 & 41 (1832) ; Spin. Hem. 



192 & 122 (1837). 

 Coreodes, Burm. Handb. ii. 299 (1835); H. Sch. Wanz. ix. 232 



(1850). 



Coreidse, Westwood, Int. ii. 482 (1839). 

 Supericornes, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 183(1843)"; SaMb. Geoc. Fenn. 



34 (1848). 

 Coreitse, p., Spin. Tav. Sin. Hem. 26 (in Mem. Soc. Ital. Sci. 



Modena, xxv.) (1850). 



Fam. 1, SPARTOCERID^E. 



Head square, emarginate in front, the antenniferous tubercles 

 forming the anterior superior extremities of the lateral lobes of 



* Except in the genus Meropachus. 



