394 CAPSINA. 



Sj)ecies 2. — Oncotylus Tanaceti. 



Phytocokis Tanaceti, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 83, 18 (1829). 

 MiRis — Germ. Faun. Ins. Eur. fas. 16, tab. 15 (1813). 



Capsus — H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 85, fig. 309 (1836); Kirschb. 



Caps. 80, 102 (1855). 

 — (Capsus) Tanaceti, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 610, 87 (1860). 

 Oncotylus Tanaceti, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 299, 3 (1861). 



Green or yellowisli-green, somewhat thickly clothed with black 

 hairs. 



Head. — Crown with a black or brown spot near the hinder margin 

 of the eyes, frequently continued into a brown streak along their 

 inner margin; Face; basal angles of the central lobe sometimes 

 with a small black spot, Antennce yellow, clothed with very short 

 black hairs ; 1st joint sometimes greenish. 'Rostrum yellow ; 4th 

 joint black. 



TJiorax. — PronoUim frequently with an x -shaped patch between 

 the callosities. Scutellum sometimes with a short black streak on 

 each side the centre of the transverse channel. Elytra ; Cmieus pale 

 at the base ; Membrane brown, iridescent ; anterior margin and a 

 patch within the apex broadly darker ; inner marginal nerve brown ; 

 cell-nerves yellowish or yellowish-white ; cells black ; outer cell 

 paler at the base. Legs yellow, clothed with very short, fine, black 

 hairs; tliighs on the upperside, next the apex, with a few brown 

 spots, on the underside with a longitudinal row ; tihice Avith brown 

 spots, in each of which is set a stout, somewhat spinose, black 

 hair; apex narrowly brown; tarsi brown; 3rd joint and claws 

 black. 



Length, 1^ — 2 lines. 



Abdomen. — ^ above black, last segment and conuexivum yel- 

 lowish-green ; underneath yellowish-green, clothed with fine, short, 

 yellow hairs ; ^ entirely yellow or greenish-yellow. 



According to Fieber, and other authors, this is a common species 

 on the Continent, and taken in company with Macrocoleus mollicuhis 

 on Tanacetum vulgare. We have, however, only met with a few 

 examples by sweeping amongst flowers, &c., on a hedge bank be- 

 tween Loatherhead and Mickleham, in July, and at Newport, South 

 Wales, in August, by beating bramble bushes. 



