ORIENTAL PLANT BUGS—HSIAO 3995 
Subfamily DICYPHINAE 
APOLLODOTIDEA, new genus 
Body oblong, shining, clothed with fine long simple hairs. 
Head small, about half as long as wide, vertical before eyes; vertex 
nearly as broad as first antennal segment long, finely marginate; frons 
flat; clypeus long, not prominent, discrete at base; jugum and lorum 
somewhat confluent. Eyes large, coarsely granulate, seen from side 
vertically ovate, occupying nearly the whole height of the head, seen 
from above small, somewhat rounded, far removed from base of head, 
postocular part about as long as length of eye seen from side. Anten- 
nae inserted at about the middle of inner margins of eyes, linear, first 
seoment short, a little thickened, second longer than first, third, and 
fourth taken together, third longer than fourth. Rostrum surpassing 
apex of anterior coxae. 
Pronotum coarsely punctate, strongly convex, declivent, greatly nar- 
rowed toward apex, wider than long, more than three times as wide 
at base as at apex, posterior and lateral margins straight, humeral 
angles rounded; apical collar impunctate, convex, about as long as first 
antennal segment, thick; calli obsolete, a small triangular area behind 
apical collar impunctate and elevated. Scutellum covered at base, 
triangular, strongly convex. 
Hemelytra semitransparent, embolar margins distinctly convex; 
embolium widest at middle, gradually narrowed towards both ends, 
inner margin straight; cuneus longer than wide, fracture profound, 
exterior margin slightly convex; membrane well developed, unicel- 
lulate. 
Xyphus of prosternum with disk moderately concave. Ostiolar peri- 
treme small. Vagina in female much reduced. Legs moderately long, 
slender, tibiae destitute of spinules, third tarsal segment very slightly 
thickened ; claws sharply bent, without cleft at base, arolia bristlelike, 
pseudarolia absent. 
This genus is closely related to Apollodotus Distant, but with calli 
obsolete, scutellum not gibbous, and embolium and cuneus differently 
formed. Distinguished from the Palaearctic genus Stethoconus Flor 
(cf. Fieber, Wien. Ent. Monatsb., vol. 8, p. 79, pl. 2, fig. 8, 1864, and 
Reuter, Hem. Gym. Eur., vol. 5, p. 8, pl. 1, fig. 2, 1896) by more convex 
pronotum and not elevated scutellum. 
Genotype.—A pollodotidea y-signata, new species. 
