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CAPSUS, Fabr. 



(\ rob ill I £6. — Rather slender, sides subparallel, body orange-yel- 

 low, finely pubescent ; head with two posteriorly approximated, black 

 lines; rostrum, antennae and eyes black; basal joints of the antennse 

 rather robust, about one-third the length of the second, all the joints 

 pubescent; thorax yellow, sometimes dusky in the middle, just before 

 the middle a transverse impressed line, which is touched in the middle 

 anteriorly by the apex of a triangular, deeper impression, lateral mar- 

 gins recurved, sides hardly sinuated; scutellum black; disk of the 

 hemelytra longitudinally smoky-black, membrane same color, lateral 

 margin of the corium rather straight; wings fuliginous; beneath bright 

 orange, disk of the venter to the apex smoky; coxae, trochanters, and 

 bases of the femora beneath white, remaining portions of the legs smoky- 

 black. 



Length 3 lines. Humeral breadth 1 line. 



Hah. — Maryland. It is found in great abundance during some sea- 

 sons upon Rohinia p^culacacia. I have also taken a specimen in July, 

 upon the common wild grape-vine. 



Capsus rapidus, Skij, has since been described as Capsus multico- 

 lor, Herrich Schaeffer, Wanz. Ins. 8, 19; pi. 254, fig. 795. 



DYSDERCUS, Amyot et Serv. 



D. lunulatus. — Head yellowish-red, with a bilobed dusky spot 

 upon the middle ; antennas deep reddish-brown, polished, the apical joint 

 slightly pubescent; rostrum pale reddish-yellow; thorax yellowish-red, 

 a little dusky against the anterior margin, posterior lobe occupied by a 

 half-moon shaped black spot, which barely omits the posterior margin and 

 does not touch the lateral margins; scutellum black; hemelytra whitish- 

 yellow, a large half-inoon-shaped, blackish spot against the middle of 

 the lateral margin, the round side inwardly, but not reaching to the 

 internal margin, nor running upon the exterior elevated edge; mem- 

 brane dusky-black; collar white, inferiorly; pleura and two intervening 

 pectoral areas between the coxae, also white ; the remaining inferior 

 surface, excepting the three last segments, which are bright red, yel- 

 lowish-red; legs dark reddish-lurid, nails blackish. 



licugth 6 lines. 



Hah. — Mexico? The specimen described is in the collection of the 

 Society. 



