382 CAPSINA. 



straight ; hinder angles rounded, somewhat raised ; posterior margin 

 concave, rounded toward and at the hinder angles ; disk convex, 

 deflected to the head, with a central channel extending throughout 

 its entire length. Scutelliim convex, slightly raised above the clavus, 

 with a transverse channel near the base. Elytra longer than the 

 ahdomen ; Clamis almost flat ; Corium horizontal, flat between the 

 claval suture and the 1st nerve, convex between the latter and the 

 anterior margin ; cuueus and membrane very slightly deflected ; 

 Cimeus long, triangular. Sternum : Prosternum ; xyphus triangular ; 

 equilateral ; llesosternutn somewhat convex ; posterior margin con- 

 vex ; Metasternum flattish convex ; centre raised into a callosity. 

 Legs longish; tarsi; 2nd joint of the 3rd pair longer than the 3rd. 



Species 1. — Macrolophus nubilds. 



Capsus nubilus {H. Schf.) Panz. E. G. 135, & (1805); Meyer, Cap. 



73,'(1S43). 

 Maceolophus nubilus, Fieh. Europ. Hem. 322, 2 (1861). 



Bright green, clothed with yellow hairs. Elytra ciliate. 



Head with a narrow black streak behind the eyes. Antennce 

 yellow; 1st joint black. .E'ye* black or brown. Bostrum je^owf . 



Thorax. — Fronotum with a central channel extending throughout 

 its entire length. Elytra ; Cuneus pale green ; Membrane pale, iri- 

 descent, with an irregular, wavy, black, transverse band nearly midway 

 between the cells and the apex, dividing the membrane into four 

 somewhat oval patches of irregular size ; the 1st and smallest, below 

 the cuneus ; the 2nd, somewhat larger, at the apex ; the 3rd, at the 

 inner posterior angle ; and the 4th, and largest, between the outer 

 cell-nerve and the 3rd patch ; cells pale ; cell-nerves briglit green 

 or yellow. Leys greenish or yellowish ; tihia with very short, stout, 

 somewhat spinose, yellow hairs ; tarsi, apex of the 3rd joint brown ; 

 claws paler. 



Ahdomen green, or yellowish-green. 



Length, If line. 



After death this insect generally becomes entirely yelloAv, except 

 the basal joint of the antennae and the last joint of the tarsi, which 

 retain their natural colour. 



We have met with this pretty species in some numbers, by sweep- 

 ing Stachys sylvatica, &c., in a wood near Lewisham, in June. 



