334 CAPSINA. 



yellow, base and apex red ; Memlrane gray or blackisli, with a pale 

 patch below the cells and the tip of the cuneus, and a darker trian- 

 gular patch on the anterior margin, extending to the apex ; inner 

 marginal nerve piceous ; cell-nerves red. Ler/s jellov>'ish. or greenish- 

 yellow, clothed with short, black hairs ; all the tM^Jis with brown 

 spots, more or less disposed in longitudinal rows ; all the tibice 

 reddish at the apex ; farsi yellowish or brownish-red ; apex of the 

 3rd joint and claws darker. 



Abdomen ; upperside brown or black ; underside yellowish or 

 greenish-yellow ; connexivum yellow ; stigmata black. 

 Length, 4 — 41 lines. 



A common species on nut-bushes and alders, at Darenth "Wood, 

 Mickleham, and other places in the London District, in August and 

 September. 



Family 6.— LITOSOMID^E. 

 Ge?ius 1. — LiTOsoMA.* 



Somewhat elongate ; slightly elliptic. 



Head almost vertical in front ; wider across the eyes than long ; 

 with a more or less distinct, narrow, transver.se keel behind the 

 eyes ; Crown somewhat flat ; Clypeus convex ; apex almost in a line 

 with the base of the antennae ; antenniferous processes very short, 

 in a line with the lower half of the eyes ; Face ; central lobe longish, 

 narrow, convex, projecting beyond the clypeus ; side lobes short, 

 somewhat stout, rounded outwardly. Antenna shorter than the 

 body ; 1st joint stout, as long as or a little longer than the head ; 

 2nd slightly thickened to the apex, 3 to 4 times as long as the 1st ; 

 3rd and 4th about -i as long as the 2ud. Eyes large, somewhat 

 prominent ; viewed from above almost hemispherical ; from the 

 side, oval. Hostrum reaching to the 2nd or 3rd pair of coxse ; 1st 

 joint stout, as long as the head, or reaching to the middle of the 

 xyphus of the presternum. 



Tliorax. — Pronotum short, trapeziform ; 1\ to 2 times broader 

 across the posterior margin than long ; anterior margin generally 

 concave, angles rounded ; sides nearly straight, or somewhat con- 

 cave ; hinder angles frequently raised ; posterior margin concave or 



* Airof, plain, aw/m, body. 



