346 CAPSINA. 



brown, iridescent ; cell-nerves and cells yellowisli. Legs green ; 

 thighs very stout ; tihice greenish-yellow, with stout, somewhat 

 spinose, black hairs ; towards the apex brownish-yellow ; tarsi 

 brownish-yellow ; 1st and 3rd joints and claws piceous. 



Ahdomen upperside green ; underside greenish-yellow, thickly 

 clothed with fine, short, white hairs. 



Length, 1^ — If line. 



Not an uncommon species, on broom, near Blackheath, and at 

 Charlton, in July. 



Family 7.— PHYLIDiE. 



Gemis 1. — yE'roRHiNUS, F'teb, 

 Elongate, narrow, somewhat delicate. 



Head vertical in front ; wider across the eyes tliau long, with a 

 distinct transverse keel behind the latter ; Crown convex, deflected ; 

 Clypens convex ; apex in a line with the base of the antennae ; an- 

 tenniferous processes short, in a line with the lower half of the eye ; 

 ^ace long, pointed ; central lobe long, convex, narrow ; side lobes 

 short, narrow. Antennce longer than the body; 1st joint nearly as 

 long as the head and pronotum together, perceptibly thickened on 

 the inside beyond the base, and curved ; 2nd more than twice as 

 long as the 1st; 3rd almost as long as the 2nd ; 4th one tliird the 

 length of the 3rd. Eges large, prominent ; viewed from above some- 

 what hemispherical, from tlie side oval. Hostrum reaching to the 

 3rd pair of coxa; ; 1st joint stout, reaching to the end of the xyphus 

 of the presternum . 



Thorax. — Pronotum somewhat campauulatc, broader than long ; 

 anterior ,'margiu almost straight, angles slightly rounded; hinder 

 angles raised ; posterior margin concave, rounded towards and at 

 the hinder angles. Scutellnm triangular, almost equilateral ; raised 

 above the clavus, with a transverse channel near the base, behind 

 which the disk is convex. Elijtra longer than the abdomen ; Clavus 

 nearly flat as far as the nerve, then suddenly deflected to the corium ; 

 Corium horizontal, flatfish ; very slightly deflected at the junction 

 with the cuneus and membrane ; Ciineus long, triangular. Sfernmn : 

 Prosfernum : xyphus triano:ular, sides rounded, disk concave. Aviih a 



