178 ANACHAR1DES. 



ANACHARIDES. 



Abdomen petiolate, the second abdominal segment longer than the 

 third ; scutellum bifurcate at the base, conical, triangular, prominent, 

 sometimes spinose, never channelled; inesopleuree usually shining; 

 parapsidal sutures distinct, prothorax acutely margined above. Head 

 triangular; antennae 12-jointed ? , 13 in $, as long as the body; eyes 

 large, subrotund ; frontal sutures indistinct. Hinder coxae widely sepa- 

 rated. Alar nervures thick ; costa distinct ; the areolet indicated by a 

 thick stump of the subradial nervure. 



From the Figitina and the Ony china, this group 

 may be known by the petiolated abdomen. In addition 

 the latter may be separated by the channelled scutellum 

 and by the second abdominal segment being produced 

 above into a tongue-shaped process. 



Two European genera are known. 



Synopsis of Genera. 



1 (2) Petiole striolated, shorter than the posterior coxae; abdomen 



scarcely compressed; median segment distinctly areolated. 



JEgilips. 



2 (1) Petiole smooth, longer than the hind coxae, abdomen com- 



pressed ; median segment not areolated. Anacharis. 



The name of Anacharis, it may be added, is discarded 

 by Foerster on the ground that there was a plant 

 named Anacharis before the word was used by Dal man ; 

 but this is an extension of the priority law which I am 

 not prepared to sanction. 



Xyalaspis is clearly founded on one of the species of 

 JEgilips with spined scutellum, and X Idevigata, Htg., 

 is given as the type, the chief mark of distinction given 

 by Foerster being that the scutellum is " stark verlang- 

 ert, i. einen Dora auslaufend ;" the other genera 

 having the scutellum "more or less conical." Foerster 

 further gives X. Idevigata (stated by him to be iden- 

 tical with nitidula, Dal.) also as the type of ^Egilips. 



He founded likewise another genus, Synaspis, which 

 differs from ^gilips and Anacharis in the scutellum 



