306 CAPSINA. 



margin of the sides to the centre. Scidellum brown, with a few 

 irregular white spots ; basal angles, and a spot on each side before 

 the apex, black ; a narrow central line, and a small rhomboidal patch 

 at the apex, white. Elytra ; Clavus pale at the base ; iuner margin 

 very narrowly brown, with a few small, darker spots ; apex narrowly 

 black ; suture pale from the apex almost as far as in a line with the 

 scutellar angle ; disk with an irregular, broad, black streak on 

 either side the pale nerve, extending nearly for an equal distance 

 below and above the scutellar augle ; the nerve with 2 or 3 

 brown spots joining the streaks, next the base a few small, black 

 spots ; Corkim ; anterior margin, with 2 large, and 5 to 6 smaller, 

 somewhat square, spots, and apex, broadly black ; along the inner 

 margin of the 1st nerve an interrupted black line ; base with a large 

 triangular black patch, extending as far as in a line with the scutellar 

 angle, interrupted by a large, somewhat square, and several small 

 white spots ; next the claval suture a more or less interrupted broad 

 black patch ; the bifurcation of the Ist nerve at the apex exteriorly 

 margined with black, the space between white; Cunexis broadly 

 gray at the base ; inner angle, apex, and the inner margin through- 

 out half its length, black ; Membrane pale ; disk, especially towards 

 the apex, thickly covered with more or less confluent black spots 

 and patches of irregular size ; a little below the apex of the cuneus 

 a large triangular black patch, its apex joined to a short black line 

 below the inner cell-nerve ; inner margiual nerve piceous ; cell- 

 nerves ; outer one and apex white ; inner one broadly black ; base 

 and apex of the outer cell black ; disk with several minute black 

 spots ; apex of the inner cell interiorly margined with black. Leya 

 grayish- white, clothed with fine, somewhat erect, white hairs ; ihi(jlis 

 pale at the base ; 1st and 2nd pairs along the centre of the inner 

 and otiter sides narrowly, and along the upperside with a broad, more 

 or less interrupted, black streak ; 3rd, along the upper and underside 

 and apex, black, more or less spotted with white ; before the apex a 

 pale diagonal band : tihite with short, fine, somewhat spinose, wliite 

 hairs ; 1st and 2nd pairs with 3 black bands, 1st below the base, 2nd 

 in the middle, 3rd at the apex ; 3rd with a broad blackish-gray baud 

 at the base, another beyond the middle, and a 3rd before the apex ; 

 anterior margin thickly covered with minute black spots throughout 

 its entire length; tarsi ; 1st joint brown, 2ud yellowish, 3rd black ; 

 daws brown. 



Ahdomen. — Upperside brown ; margin of the segments yellowish- 



