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Sjjecies 7. — Litosoma FLAYOsrxViisus. 



Capsus flavosparsus, S(//ild. Geoc. Fen, 103, 2G (1848) ; Kirschb. 



Caps. 89, 120 (1855). 

 PiiYTOcoRis — Bokem.Xet. Akad. Porh. 13, IS (1852). 



Capsus (Capsus) flavospausus, Flor, Khyu. Liv. i, 582, GO (ISGO). 

 Oktiiotvlus flavospaksus, Fieb, Europ. Hem. 288, 2 (1861). 



(^ elongate, somewhat parallel ; $ siibelliptie. Green, clothed with 

 short, fine, depi'essed, white hairs, intermixed with stoutish 

 somewdiat erect, black ones. Ulytra more or less spotted witli 

 yellowish-white. 



Head. — Antennce ; 1st joint greenish ; 2ud, .^rd, and 4th, yel- 

 lowish or pale brownish-yellow. Eijes black. Bostrum green ; tip 

 black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the anterior margin, 

 connected by a very short transverse keel ; hinder angles raised ; 

 posterior margin slightly convex, almost straight in the middle; disk 

 slightly convex, deeply punctnred. ScuteUum convex, flattish in the 

 centre, very slightly raised above the clavus. Elytra diaphanons ; 

 Chiviis almost flat between the inner margin and the nerve, deflected 

 from thence to the suture ; inner margin and suture darlc green ; 

 disk pale green, more or less spotted with yellow-ish-white, and with 

 minute dark green spots, in each of which is set a stoutish, somewhat 

 erect, black hair ; Corinm very pale green, more or less spotted with 

 yellowish-white ; anterior margin and 1st nerve dark green ; disk 

 with numerous minute dark green spots, in each of which is set a 

 stoutish, somewhat erect, black hair ; Cuneus ; anterior and inner 

 margins dark green ; apex of the latter and the anterior basal angle 

 pale ; Memhrane very pale brown, iridescent ; inner marginal nerve 

 pale ; cell-nerves green, with a very narrow^ white margin exte- 

 riorly ; cells green. Legs green ; tihice with long, fine, somewhat 

 spinose, pale brown hairs ; apex very narrowly brownish -yellow ; 

 tarsi yellow ; apex of the 3rd joint and claws black. 



Abdomen greenish-yellow. 



Length, If — 2 lines. 



After death the head, anterior iialf of the pronotum, and scu- 

 tellura, generally become yellow, and the elytra more or less ycllow- 

 ish-"reeu. 



