380 CAPSINA. 



nerves to the apex ; inner marginal and cell-nerves brown. Legs 

 white, or pale yellowish- white, clothed with short, stiff, brown hairs ; 

 thighs with 2 longitudinal, somewhat irregular rows of brown 

 ^spots next the apex ; tihice with a few somewhat spinose brown 

 hairs ; on the upperside of the knee a short brown streak ; tarsi 

 yellowish ; base of the 1st joint narrowly, and 3rd brown ; claws 

 reddish. 



Abdomen underneath pitchy brown or yellowish-brown, clothed 

 with yellowish hairs. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



In pale yellowish-white examples the spots on the corium are 

 not so distinct, and the apical spots, as well as that of the cuneus, 

 are red ; frequently the ? has undeveloped elytra. 



This is a very abundant species, in June and July, on Stachys 

 sylvatica, Epilobium, and other plants. We have met with it at 

 Lewisham, Eltham, Darenth, and other places in the Loudon dis- 

 trict. Mr. Wilkinson has also taken it at Scarborough. 



Species 5. — Idolocoris pallidus. 



Capsus coLLAiiis, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 125, 19 var. /3 (1829). 



— PALLIDUS, H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 51, fig. 269 (1836); Meyer., Caps. 



C4 (1843); Kirschb. Caj^s. 42, 25 (1855). 



— CONSTRICTUS, Boh. Vet. Akad. Forb. 32 (1852). 

 DiCYPHUS PALLIDUS, Fieh. Europ. Hem. 325, 2 (1861). 



Elongate, parallel, narrow, shining. Pale yellowish-white, very 

 sparingly clothed with short, stiff, somewhat erect, brown hairs ; 

 Corium without brown spots ; anterior margin somewhat ciliate ; 

 3rd pair of legs very long. 



Head yellow, behind the eyes sometimes a large black spot ; 

 jK^ce ; central lobe frequently brown at the base. Antenncs yellow, 

 clothed with very short, brownish hairs ; 1st joint as long as the 

 head, red, base broadly and apex narrowly white, or yellowish-white ; 

 2nd, base and apex narrowly white or yellowish-white, before the 

 apex narrowly brown ; 3rd and 4th brown, base of the 3rd white. 

 TLyes brown or red-brown. Bostrum yellow, extreme tip brownish. 



Thorax. — Pronotnm on the sides below the callosities with a brown 

 spot ; disk behind the callosities very faintly wrinkled transversely. 



