304 CAPSINA. 



Pale-greeu or whitisl), with dark-gray or black markings, and thickly 

 clothed \Yith irregular patches of white aud black hair^^ inter- 

 mixed ; 2nd joint of the antoiiue and all the tihicc with black 

 bands. 



Head ; Crown aud Face whitish, covered with long wliite hairs ; 

 antennifcrous pi'ocesses black. Antennce hlixok ; 1st joint sparingly 

 clotlied with stout, longish, brown or black, erect hairs ; with 3 or 4 

 oblong white spots on the upper side, and the apex sometimes uar- 

 rowdy piceous ; 2nd with a white band at the base, and another in 

 the middle of almost equal width ; 3rd narrowly white at the base. 

 Mostrum pale yellowish-white, the tip piceous or black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; sides black ; hinder angles raised ; posterior 

 margin with an interrupted black line and 4 to 6 tufts of black hairs ; 

 generally as the line approaches the hinder angles it curves round 

 and joins on to the inside of the side line along which it extends 

 about midway ; or the entire disk is black, with the collar and a 

 U-sliaped patch attached to it yellowish-white, or greenish. Scu- 

 teUnm with, a slight central keel; centre of the disk slightly flattened ; 

 sides very steep ; apex deflected ; on each side the base of the 

 deflection a short oblique black streak, generally continued up the 

 sides of the central keel ; basal angle piceous or black. Elytra : 

 Clavus ; apex black ; disk frequently with 2 large black spots 

 placed immediately above and below the scutellar angle, and 2 lesser 

 ones between the latter aud the black apex ; or, the entire disk is 

 pale, the apex alone black, or the 2 large spots are joined by a wider 

 or narrow'er streak, or the 2 lesser ones are joined ; Cor mm ; anterior 

 margin spotted with black, more or less confluent ; the apex black ; 

 disk with a large irregular shaped black patch (sometimes divided) 

 immediately opposite or joined to the 2 large spots on the clavu,-:, 

 and forming, with them and some of the spots on the anterior margin, 

 a band ; apex more or less clouded with black, always leaving 

 a large pale triangular spot next the cuneus ; or frequently the 

 entire disk is devoid of markings except a small black, triangular spot 

 next the anterior margin, a little below the apex of thescutellum and 

 a black A-shaped piece at the apex bordering the pale triangle ; 

 Cuneus; apex and a short streak at the base of the inner margin 

 black ; Mcmhrane hyaline ; the inner margin to a little beyond a 

 line with the tip of the cuneus narrowdy, and the nerve of the inner 

 cell broadly black ; base aud apex of the outer cell, the inner one 



