360 CAPSINA. 



the posterior margin. Scutelliim black, callosity transversely 

 wrinkled ; sides flattened, with a narrow line of short, silver-white 

 hairs. Elytra very finely wrinkled transversely; Clavus ; inner 

 margin and apex piceous, within the latter narrowly brown ; Corium ; 

 anterior margin with the apex somewhat reddish ; disk with 2 very 

 narrow bands of silver- white hairs, the 1st about -3-rd from the base, 

 extending from the anterior margin to the elaval suture ; 2nd about 

 \v^ from the apex, extending from the anterior margin to the inner 

 margin of the clavus, the space between the latter and the apex 

 brown, convex, shining ; Cuneus brown, convex, longer than broad, 

 with a very small, snow-white spot at the basal inner angle ; Mem- 

 brane broad, pitchy black, iridescent, with a narrow white streak 

 extending through the inner cell to the apex of the cuneus ; disk 

 with a large, pale, lunate, indefinite patch between the base of the 

 inner margin and the outer cell-nerve ; inner marginal and cell- 

 nerves brown ; outer cell-nerve curved. Legs brown ; base of all 

 the tliiglis reddish-yellow ; tibicB with very short, somewhat spinose, 

 brown hairs ; apex of all the pairs narrowly piceous ; tan'si brownish- 

 yellow, 3rd joint and claws piceous. 



AMomen underneath, brown-black, shining, clothed with very short 

 white hairs. 



Length, 2 lines. 



After death the insect gradually becomes nude, and the position 

 of the bands can only be recognised by the paler streaks on the 

 corium. It is very closely allied to C clavatus, but may be distin- 

 guished from it by the wider pronotum, the differences in the 

 antennae, the length of the cuneus, and the small white spot at the 

 inner angle of the latter. One example beaten from Pinus sijlvestris 

 at Plumstead, in July, and two others oif oaks at Lewisham. In 

 the net it might easily be mistaken for a small specimen of the large 

 wood ant, Formica riifa. 



Species 2. — Camaronotus clavatus. 



CiMEX CLAVATUS, Lin. S. N. 729, 97 (17C7). 



Capsus bifasciatus, Fah. S. R. 242, 7 (1S03); Fall. Hem. Siiec. i, 118, 



6 (1829). 

 I'li.oi'noKUs bifasciatus, Eahn, Icon, i, t. 23 (1826). 

 i'lUTucojus CLAVATUS, Bum. Haiirlb. ii, 206, 1 (1835). 



