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indicated by points or dots which do not occur amongst the second 

 section comprising the Sehirides. The generic characters of the Gydnides 

 are chiefly drawn from the piliferons points or dots other than those men- 

 tioned which are especially found along the lateral margins of the 

 head, the pronotum or the hemelytra. 



Genus Cephalocteus, Leon Dufour. 



A. S. E. F. (1 s.) iii, p. 342 (1834) ; Am. & Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 94 

 (1843) ; Fieber. Enr. Hem. p. 83, 362 (1861) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 163 (1867) ; 

 Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 21 ( 1876) ; Signoret, A. S. E. F. (6 s.) i, p. 38 (1881) i—CephaloC' 

 tenus, ScModte, Kroyer's Tidsskr. iv, p. 330 (1843) ; (2 s.) ii, p. 449 (1849). 



Eyes hardly visible, composed only of a small tubercle surmounted 

 by one or two others ; ocelli absent : head longer than broad, spinuloses 

 ciliated on the margin and the vertex ; the juga are longer than the tylus 

 which is, however, free in front : antennae 5-jointed, the first joint is the 

 longest, the two last shortest, globose : rostrum reaching the interme- 

 diate pair of feet : the second joint stoutest and longest : pronotum 

 twice as broad as long, very pilose on the sides and on part of the disc : 

 scutellum longer than broad, acuminate : hemelytra shorter than the 

 abdomen, membrane very short, veinless, also the corium which is bor- 

 dered with numerous hairs and has some on the disc : wings rudimen- 

 tary: feet short and stout ; femora amplified ; the intermediate and last 

 tibiae much ciliated over their whole surface ; the first pair with ten 

 spines on the outer side, apparently mobile, and increasing in length and 

 breadth from base to tip, the internal side furnished with four spines 

 having very long hairs ; tarsi long and slender ; claws with appendages 

 in the form of bristles : abdomen with numerous hairs on the disc and 

 on the sides, the ostiolar canal more or less confused in the mesosternal 

 groove with the ostiole towards the middle and forming an oblique open- 

 ing with a distinct margin at the base and almost none at the tip (Sign.), 



26. Cephalocteus melolonthoides, Schiodte. 



Cephaloctenus melolonthoides, Schiodte, in Kroyer's Nat. Tidsskr. iv, p. 332 

 (1843). 



Cephalocteus melolonthoides, Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 21 (1876) : Sign. A. S. E. F. (6 

 s.) i, p. 40 (1881). 



Fuscous or piceous, with ferruginous hairs ; scutellum and hemely- 

 tra at the apex of a weaker colour, membrane albescent at the apex : an- 

 tennae and rostrum ferruginous : neck pale yellow : feet rufous ; pos- 

 terior tibiae piceous, spines fuscous ; all the tarsi pale. Head occupying 

 almost one-sixth of the length of the body, broader than long by one half, 

 somewhat convex, impressed towards the sides with some unequal punc- 



