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Species 3. — LiTosoMA nassatus. 



CiMEX NASSATUS, Fab. MauUss. ii, 301, 251 (1787). 



Lyceus nassatcs, Fab. E. S. iv, 171.-, 13G (179-1) ; S. E. 236, 167 (1803). 



PiiYTOCORis XASSAirs, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 80, 7 (1829) ; Koleii. Mel. 



Ent. ii, 117, 96 (1815); Zett. Ins. Lap. 272, 



4 (1839). 

 Lygus ictekocefhalus, Hahii, Waiiz, i, 119, (ig. 75 (1831). 



— xassatus, Hahn, Wanz. i, 153, fig. 78 (1831). 



Capsus — Me>/er, Caps. 50, 8 (1813); Sahib. Geoc. Feu. 102, 

 21 (1818); KirscJtb. Caps. 78, 98 (1855). 



— (Capsus) nassatus, Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 618, 91 (1860j. 

 Okthotylus xassatus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 289, 6 (1861). 



Elongate ; ^ somewhat parallel ; ? subelliptic. Green ; somewhat 

 sparingly clothed with long, fine, white hairs. Corium ciliate. 



Head. — AntenncG yellowish or brownish-yellow ; 1st joint fre- 

 quently brownish ; apex yellow, or yellow with the base piceous ; 

 apex of the 2nd sometimes brown ; 3rd and 4th brown. Eyes black ; 

 Rostrum greenish or yellowish-green ; tip piceous or black. 



Thorax. — Pronotuvi with 2 callosities behind the anterior margin ; 

 hinder angles somewhat raised, posterior margin almost straight; 

 disk convex, transversely wrinkled. Scidellum convex, raised above 

 the clavus. Elytra: Clavus ; inner margin and nerve dark green ; 

 suture somewhat yellowish ; disk pale green, deeply punctured, and 

 thickly covered with minute dark green spots, more or less confluent, 

 and sometimes forming small, irregular patches ; Corium ; anterior 

 margin generally yellowish ; disk somewhat shagreened ; flattish be- 

 tween the inner margin and the 1st nerve, then somewhat con- 

 vex, and abruptly deflected to the anterior margin ; the entire 

 disk pale green, thickly covered with minute dark green spots, more 

 or less confluent, especially between the 1st uerve and the anterior 

 margin ; 1st nerve and 'apex dark green ; Cuneiis green ; anterior 

 margin and apex darker ; Membrane pale gray, iridescent ; inner 

 marginal nerve brownish ; cell-nerves green or yellowish-green, 

 exteriorly margined with brown, broadest below the apex ; outer cell 

 with a short green streak near the middle of the outer nerve. J^eys 

 greenish or yellowish ; tibice with long, tine, pale brown, spinose 

 hairs ; apex brownish ; tarsi brownish or brownish-yellow ; apex of 

 the 3rd joint and claws black. 



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