522 HEMIPTERA. 



Griseous, thickly and finely punctured with brown, with the 

 whole upper surface covered with minute brown spots. Antenni- 

 ferous tubercles produced into long acute spines. Thorax with 

 the lateral margins denticulated. Body beneath thickly and 

 finely punctured with brown. Legs concolorous with the body, 

 thighs punctured with brown ; posterior pair thickened, spinous 

 beneath. Rostrum long, reaching the base of the abdomen, 

 testaceous, with the tip black. Antennae with the first and fourth 

 joints brown ; the second and third testaceous ; second shorter 

 than the third. 



a. . From Mr. Children's Collection. 



4. HARM OSTES affinis, n. s. 



H. praecedenti valde aifinis, differt tuberculis antenniferis breviter 

 spinosis, antennarum articulis 2 et 3 sequalibus, rostro vix ad 

 basin pedum posticorum attingenti. <$ . 

 Long. lin. 3. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's Collection. 



Genus 2. ATRACTUS. 



Coreus, p., Fall. Mon. dm. (ISO/) fy Hem. Suec. (1829) ; Schill. 



Beitr. i. (1829); H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. (1835) 8c Wanz. ix. 



(1851). 

 Atractus, Lap. Hem. 45. 8 (1832); Curt. B. E. xi. 500 (1834) ; 



Spin. Hem. 210 (1837); Am. % Serv. Hem. 209? (1843). 

 Arenocoris, Hahn, Wanz. ii. 109 (1834). 

 Pseudophlceus, Burm. Handb. ii. 308 (1835) ; H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 



3 (1842) ; Am. fy Serv. Hem. 246 (1843) ; Spin. Tav. Sin. Hem. 



42 (1850). 



1. ATRACTUS Waltlii. 



Coreus Waltlii, H. Sch. Cont. Panz. F. G. 127. 6 & Norn. Ent. 



i. 42 & 74 (1835). 



Pseudophlceus Waltlii, H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 4. 1. 182. fig. D (1842). 

 a. . 



2. ATRACTUS nubilus. 



Coreus nubilus, Fall. Mon. dm. 58. 4 (1807) fy Hem. Suec. 39. 



5 (1829) ; Ahrens, F. Ins. Eur. 6. 22; Schill. Beitr. i. 47. 10. 



t. 4. fig. 5 (1829). 



Arenocoris nubilus, Hahn, Wanz. ii. 111. t. 63. fig. 191 (1834). 

 Pseudophlceus nubilus, H. Sch. Wanz. vi. 4 (1842). 

 a. Versailles. 



