358 CAPSJNA. 



Head. — Antennce yellow ; base of the 1st joint generally blackish. 

 Rostrum yellow ; 1st joint sometimes brown ; tip brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; anterior margin narrowly, and angles more 

 or less broadly, piceous. Scutellum ; transverse channel concave in the 

 middle ; basal angles frequently brown ; hinder portion finely 

 wrinkled transversely, occasionally brown, the centre more or less 

 pale. Elytra : Glaviis ; base narrowly red ; Corium ; base narrowly 

 red ; anterior margin in brownish-red examples blackish, the colour 

 spreading as it reaches the apex ; S2:)ace between the 1st nerve and 

 the anterior margin piceous ; Cimeus reddish or orange- red, some- 

 times the apex and the anterior margin narrowly brown ; Mem- 

 hrane pale pitchy brow]i, iridescent, with a pale streak extending 

 from below the apex of the cuneus to the base of the inner cell ; 

 anterior margin frequently narrowly brown ; cell-nerves gray or 

 grayish-white ; inner cell-nerve and apex of both the cell-nerves red. 

 Lec/s yellow ; tlhiai with short, fine, somewhat spiuose, pale brownish 

 yellow hairs; tarsi ; apex of the 3rd joint pale brown; claivs reddish- 

 yellow. 



Jhdomen underneath, dark brown or reddish-brown. 



Length, 2| lines. 



AVe have met with this insect abundantly, on nut- bushes, at 

 Croydon, Mickleham, and Darenth, in July. 



Family b.— CAMARONOTID^. 



Genus 1. — Camaronotus, Flcb. 



Elongate ; Corium widened from behind the middle towards the 

 cuneus. 



Head long, triangular, very considerably deflected ; wider aei-oss 

 the eyes than long, with a distinct transverse keel almost in a line 

 with the hinder margin of the latter ; CIi/pcus slightly convex, apex 

 in a line with the base of the antenna; ; antenniferous processes 

 short, in a line with the underside of the eyes ; Face pointed ; 

 central lobe longish, broad, slightly convex ; side lobes very short 

 and narrow. Antennce shorter than the body ; 1st joint short, some- 

 what stout, about ^ as long as the head ; 2nd stout, thickened to the 

 apex, 4J times as long as the 1st ; 3rd and 4th somewhat filiform ; 

 3rd longer than the Kli, sometiiiies a little stouter. Eyes large, pro- 



