342 CAPSINA. 



Several specimens were taken at Soutliampton in September, 1862, 

 amongst Chenopodium. Found also at Lee. 



Species 8. — Litosoma ociirotrichus. 



Okthotylus ociikoteichus, Fieb. (M.S.), 1SG4. 



J elongate, narrow, somewhat parallel. Dark green, clothed with 

 fine, longish, yellow hairs. Mijtra with minute yellow spots. 



Head. — AntenncE ; 1st joint pale green, apex narrowly darker, 

 with a few erect, stout, brownish hairs ; 2nd yellowish, clothed with 

 short brownish hairs ; 3rd and 4ith yellowish or pale brownish-yellow. 

 nostrum yellowish, base greenish ; tip piceous. 



Thorax. — JPronoftim Avith 2 callosities behind the anterior margin, 

 joined in front by a short, convex, triangular keel ; sides slightly 

 concave in the middle, widening towards the hinder angles ; disk 

 convex, transversely wrinkled, with a small, round, yellow spot, nearly 

 opposite to the basal angles of the scutellum. Scutellum slightly 

 raised above the clavus, convex from the base to the transverse 

 channel ; apical portion convex, on the sides somewhat flattened in 

 the middle, towards the transverse channel. Eltjtra somewhat 

 diaphanous ; Clavus transversely wrinkled ; nerve dark green ; suture 

 yellow ; disk with a few minute, iri'egular, yellow spots ; C'orium 

 transversely wrinkled ; anterior margin narrowly dark green ; disk 

 Avith a few minute yellow spots, placed at irregular intervals ; 

 Cnneiis; anterior and interior margins dark green ; Memhrane very 

 pale brown,- iridescent ; inner marginal nerve pale piceous ; cell- 

 nerves green ; outer cell with a small black spot near the middle of 

 the outer nerve. Ler/s greenish-yellow, sparingly clothed Avith pale, 

 depressed, brownish-yellow hairs, intermixed with a few longer, almost 

 erect ones ; iilice with short, somewhat spinose, brown hairs ; iarsi 

 yellow ; 3rd joint and claws brown. 



Abdomen; underside greenish yellow, clothed Avith short yellowisli- 

 white hairs. 



Length, 2 lines. 



After death the following parts become more or less yellow: — The 

 basal joint of the antennae, except the apex ; the head, anterior por- 

 tion of the thorax to behind the callosities, base of the scutellum as 

 far as the transA'erse channel, elytra, so that the spots bec.*me indis- 

 tinct, and also the thighs, except their tips. 



