344 CAPSINA. 



Capsus (Capsus) ericetokum, Flor, Rliyu. Liv. i, 587, 70 (1S60). 

 LiTOCORis ERICETOKTJM, Fieb. Eui'op. Hem. 287 (ISGl). 



Short, narrow, subelliptic. Green, clothed with somewhat erect, 

 brownish hairs. Head convex between the eyes, and without a 

 transverse keel at the hinder margin. Legs; 3rd pair of 

 thighs stout. 



Head. — Antennce yellowish ; 3rd and 4-th joints brownish. Eyes 

 large, black ; viewed from above somewhat hemispherical, from the 

 side oval. Sostnan reaching to beyond the 3rd pair of coxa? ; yel- 

 lowish ; tip brown ; 1st joint stout, reaching to the end of the 

 xyphus of the presternum. 



Thorax. — Fronotum with a deep transverse channel behind the 

 anterior margin, indented in the middle ; hinder angles not raised ; 

 posterior margin convex, indented in the middle. Scittellum convex, 

 level with the clavus, and with a faint central keel extending from 

 the transverse channel to the apex. Elytra; CJavus sparingly 

 punctured; Corhim ; anterior margin yellowish^ generally with a 

 dark green margin on the inside ; 1st nerve yellowish at the base ; 

 disk convex, slightly flattened in the middle, sparingly punctured ; 

 Cuneus ; apex ochreous ; Memlrane pale brownish, iridescent, with 

 a dark triangular patch on the anterior margin below the apex of 

 the cuneus ; anterior margin piceous ; cell-nerves brownish-yellow. 

 Legs greenish or yellowish-green; fJiiyJis ; 3rd pair stout; tili(S 

 yellowish, with brownish, somewhat spinose, hairs ; farsi brownish- 

 yellow ; 3rd joint and chtics blackish. 



Abdomen greenisli. 



Length, 1^ — 1^ line. 



A very common species amongst heather, from July to September. 

 It has occurred at Shirley, "Weybridge, and otlier places in the 

 London district. 



/Species 11. — Litosoma prasinus. 



Capsus prasinus (PicL et Meyer), teste, Fieb. 

 HypsiTYLUs PRASINUS, Fieb. Europ. Ilem. 280 (ISGl). 



Elongate. Darkish green ; tliickly clothed witii depressed yellowisli 

 hairs. 



