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species 1. — Biiyocoris pteriuis. 



Capsus PTEiviDis, Fall. Mou. Ciin. 105, 20 (1S07) ; Gvrm. Faun. Ins. 



Eur. fasc. 10, 1. 13 (1S13) ; Meyer Bib-, Caps. lU, lU'J 



(1843); Kirschb. Caps. 7(5, 70 (1855). 

 Bkyocokis — Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 152, 1 (1829) ; Zetl. Ins. Lap. 266 



1 (1840); Sahib. Gcoc. Fen. 124, 2 (1848); Koleu. 



Mel. Ent, ii, 129, 116 (1857); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 



238 (1861). 

 Halticus — Bunn. Haudb. ii, 278, 6 (1835). 

 Cai'sus PULCHEii, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 93, 4 (1848). 

 — (Cafsus) ptekidis, Flor, Rliyu. Liv. i, 540, 40 (1860). 



Developed form. — {Capsus pulcher, Sahib.) 

 Black, somewhat shining, thickly clothed with fine, depressed, goldeu 

 hairs. 



Head ; Crown with a narrow, pale-yellowish streak along the in- 

 side of each eye. AiiteniKs ; 1st and 2nd joints pale yellowish, apex 

 of the latter broadly black ; 3rd and 4th black, base of the 3rd 

 browuisll-yellow^ Eijes black. Eostrum yellowish ; tip piceous. 



Thorax. — Proiiotum deeply wrinkled transversely. Scutelliun 

 wrinkled transversely. Elytra; Clavus\)\a.c^ ; Co;Tw?rt pale yellowish ; 

 the anterior margin interiorly, a patch at its junction with the 

 cuneus and the 1st nerve pitchy-black ; Cuneus pale yellowish ; the 

 interior margin brown ; apex narrowly piceous ; Membrane brown ; 

 below the apex of the cuneus a pale, triangular patch, and below 

 the apex of the cell another pale patch extending to, and somewhat 

 widened as it approaches the apex ; cell-nerve brown. Sternum 

 black. Legs pale yellow ; tarsi pale yellow, 3rd joint blackish ; claws 

 brownish-yellow. 



Length, IJ line. 



Undeveloped form. — Pale yellowish, thickly clothed with fine, 

 depressed, golden yellow hairs. 



Head, in the ^, piceous; Grown with a narrow, pale yellowish 

 streak along the inside of each eje ; in the ? the head is pale 

 yellowish; Crown with a round {)iceous spot; Face; base of the 

 central lobe piceous. Anteniice ; 1st and 2nd joints pale yellowish, 

 apex of the latter pitchy- black, broader in the ^ than the ? ; ord 

 and 4th pitchy-black, base of the 3rd brownish-yellow. Fyes and 

 Rostrum as in the developed form. 



