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BRITISH HEMTPTEBA: ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 

 BY J. TV. DOUGLAS AND JOHN SCOTT. 



GEODBOMIOA. 

 Section 5. — lyg^ina. 



Family L— EHTPAEOOHEOMIDiE. 



Stethoteopis (Fieb.), n. g. 



Short, broad, oval, stout. 



Head transverse, short, pentagonal ; croivn (including the eyes) wider 

 than the front of the pronotum, rather convex ; face very short, sides 

 slightly curved inwards, apex obtuse. Eyes rounded, projecting 

 laterally. Antenna slender, 1st joint stout, reaching beyond the end 

 of the face, 2nd slender, slightly clavate, 1\ times longer than the 

 1st; 3rd more slender and less clavate, about two-thirds the length 



of the 2nd ; 4th thicker 

 than the 2nd, about 

 the same length as the 

 3rd, fusiform. Rostrum 

 slender, reaching to the 

 posterior coxae, 1st joint 

 as long as the head, 2nd 

 nearly twice as long, 3rd 

 about as long as the 1st, 



Details of Stetliotropis incana, D. & S. 4th rather shorter. 



Thorax : pronotum long-trapezoidal, moderately convex, anteriorly 

 contracted to the width of the head but immediately widened and 

 the anterior angles rounded off ; anterior margin slightly concave ; 

 sides nearly straight, very slightly sinuate, the margin at first very 

 narrowly reflexed, then gradually thickened and forming a small 

 callus at the posterior angles which are thus obtuse ; posterior 

 margin, within the callosities, slightly emarginate. Scutellum long, 

 triangular, slightly convex, sides depressed, apex acute. Elytra : 

 — clavus long, narrow, sides parallel ; corium wide, curved out- 

 wards, anterior margin not reflexed, the outer nerve incrassated 

 and prominent on the basal half, its posterior course on the 

 disc also considerably raised ; membrane short, sub-quadrate, 

 posterior angles subequally rounded, base depressed ; of the 

 four nerves the 1st is short and curved outwards, the 2nd, 

 arising near the middle of the base, is nearly straight, slightly 

 curved at the base ; the 3rd, arising at the inner angle, curves 



