HEMIPTERA. 587 



Heterogaster Resedse, S chill. Beitr. 89. t. 8. fig. 5 (1829) ; Burm. 

 Handb. ii. 292. 1 (1835) ; H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 46 & 81 (1835). 

 Cymus Reseda, Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. 71. 1 (1848). 

 Clidocerus, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iv. 108. 168. 



a. England. 



b. N. America. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



3. CYMUS lineola, n. s. 



C. griseus, punctatus, rufescenti-tinctus ; capitis linea .media, 

 corpore subtus, abdominis apice excepto, antennisque basi et 

 apice, nigris ; scutello linea media albida. ? . 

 Long. lin. 2. 



Head reddish, thickly and finely punctured, with the vertex 

 and a line down the centre black. Eyes black. Thorax griseous, 

 reddish in front, thickly punctured with brown ; with a narrow 

 whitish line across the anterior margin. Scutellum blackish, 

 with a yellowish white elevated line down the middle. Coria- 

 ceous portion of the elytra griseous, reddish along the inner and 

 apical margins, with two rows of strong punctures on the clavus, 

 a row of finer punctures within the suture of the clavus, a simi- 

 lar row along the outside of the subcostal nervure, and a few fine 

 punctures on the disc within this nervure ; apical margin wdth 

 two blackish points, one at the middle and the other at the outer 

 angle ; membrane transparent, brownish. Body beneath black, 

 obscure, covered with a greyish pubescence ; apical portion of the 

 abdomen orange, with the extreme tip blackish, and with a deep 

 black line down the suture of the vulvar cleft. Thighs orange ; 

 tibiae and tarsi testaceous. Antennae with the basal and apical 

 joints black, the second and third orange. 



a. Cape of Good Hope. From M. Drege's Collection. 



Fam. 2. ANTHOCORID.E. 



Rostrum apparently only of three joints, the basal joint being 

 minute and concealed. Corium with an appendix ; membrane 

 generally with only one distinct nervure. 



Anthocorides, Am. Sf Serv. Hem,. 262 (1843). 



Articulipennes, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. iv. 377 (1846). 



Lygaeodes, p., et Xylocorides, H. Sch. Wanz. ix. (1850). 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



I. Last two joints of the antennae as thick as 



or thicker than the preceding 1. ANTHOCORIS. 



II. Last two joints of the antennae thinner 



than the preceding 2. XYLOCORIS. 



2 D 2 



