LITOSOMIDiE. 345 



Sead yellow. Antenna yellow, clothed with very fine, pale hairs ; 

 3rd and -Itli joints bi-ownisli. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; callosities joined iu front by a short trans- 

 verse keel, with a short transverse channel in the middle, behind 

 the latter. Elyfra : Cuneus ; margin and the suture bluish-green ; 

 Memhrane blackish ; cell-nerves bluish-green. Legs yellow-greenisb, 

 thickly clothed with very fine, pale hairs; fJiir/Iis not punctured; 

 tihice ; apex yellow ; /«;•«?' yellow, apex brown. 



Abdomen underside pale. 



Length, 2 lines. 



AYe took 2 specimens of this insect at Southend, in September, 

 by sweeping herbage. They were sent to Dr. Fieber for determina- 

 tion, but, having received much injury in the journey home, wo have 

 been obliged to quote Dr. Fieber's description. 



Sj)ecics 1.2. — LrrosoMA ciiloroptkrus. 



Capsits culoroptekus, Kirschh. Caps. SO, 121, & 15G, 21 (1S55), 

 PACiii'Lors — Tieb. Europ. Hem. 285 (ISGl). 



^ somewhat elongate ; ? subelliptic. Green, somewhat thickly 

 clothed with fine, short, \Ahite hairs, intermixed with longish, 

 po'newhat erect, black ones. Legs; 3rd pair of thighs very 

 stout. 



Head yellowish-green, very wide between the eyes ; Pace ; central 

 lobe convex, somewhat prominent. Anienn^e ; 1st joint greenish or 

 yellowish-green, with a few erect black hairs ; 2ud 4 times as long 

 as the 1st, yellowish or pale brownish-yellow ; 3rd and -4th brownish. 

 Bostncni short, scarcely reaching to the middle coxse, greenish or 

 yellowish-green ; tip blackish. 



Thorax.— Pronotvm with 2 more or less distinct callosities behind 

 the anterior margin ; hinder angles very slightly raised ; posterior 

 margin convex, slightly indented in the middle, and somewhat 

 depressed next the basal angles of the scutellum ; disk flattish ; the 

 anterior portion to behind the callosities frequently yellowish-green. 

 Scutelhnn convex, flattish in the centre, almost level with the 

 clavus ; base as far as the transverse channel and the sides some- 

 times yellowish. Elytra ; Clavus transversely wrinkled ; Cerium 

 somewhat flattish in the centre, convex on the sides; Memhrane 



