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deflected to the head. Scutellum triangular, almost level with the 

 clavus, with a transverse channel near the base ; sides very slightly 

 convex. Elytra longer than the abdomen ; Clavus convex, deflected 

 to the corium ; Corium horizontal, flattish between the claval suture 

 and the 1st nerve, from the latter to the anterior margin convex ; 

 cuneus and membrane deflected ; Cuneus long, triangular. Sternum : 

 Prosfenmm ; xyphus triangular, apex acute ; Jilesostermcm ; posterior 

 margin convex, faintly notched ; Metasternum slightly convex ; angle 

 prominent. Legs: tarsi; 2nd joint longer than the 3rd ; 1st f rds of 

 the 2nd. 



Species 1. — Macrocoleus molliculus. 



Phytocoris jiolliculus, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 82, 12 (1829). 



Capsus — H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 32, 589 (1842) ; Meyer, 



Caps. 78, 54 (1813); SaJilb. Geoc. Fen. 



103, 25 (1818); Kirschb. Caps. 80, 101 



(1855). 



— ociTROLEUCUS, Kirsclib. Caps. 88, 117 (1855) ? 



— (Capsus) molliculus, Flor., Rhyn Liv. i, 611, 88 (1860). 

 Macrocoleus — i^/ei. Europ. Hem. 321, 7 (1801). 



Yellowish, greenish-yellow, or grayish-green, clothed with black or 

 brownish-black hairs, which have a yellow appearance in certain 

 lights. 



Head. — Antennce yellowish, sometimes yellowish-brown, clothed 

 vdth very short blackish hairs. Eyes dark brown. Hostrum 

 greenish-yellow, tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum slightly convex. Scutellum deflected to the 

 transverse channel, flattish ; hinder portion convex. Elytra ; Clavus 

 pale brownish, suture pale ; Corium ; anterior margin brown ; disk 

 next the apex with an irregular transverse, brown baud divided by 

 the pale nerve, between the band and the inner angle of the cuneus a 

 triangular pale patch ; Cuneus brown, base pale; Ilemhi^ane brown- 

 ish, iridescent ; entire margin and a spot near the apex of the 

 anterior margin darker ; between the apex of the cuneus and the 

 inner cell-nerve a triangular whitish spot, immediately below which is 

 a square black spot ; cell-nerves yellowish ; cells yellowish brown, 

 inner cell black. Leys pale yellow ; tliiylis on the underside with a 

 longitudinal row of minute brown spots, on the upperside next the 

 apex with a few scattered brown spots ; tihio; with long, somewhat 

 spinose, blackish or brownish hairs ; ^om brownish-yellow, Brd joint 

 and claios black. 



