364 CAPSINA. 



$ Head shining ; Crown convex, raised above the upper margin of 

 the eyes. Antennce ; 1st joint reddish or brownish, base narrowly 

 bhick ; 3rd and 4th reddish or brownish-red. Rostrum as in the (^ . 



Thorax. — Pronotum with 2 very convex callosities behind the 

 constricted portion of the anterior margin ; sides to behind the 

 callosities convex, from thence slightly concave. JElytra not covering 

 the abdomen ; disk of the Corium wdth a broad pitchy-brown band 

 at the apex, darkest between the 1st nerve and the inner angle ; 

 Cicneus short, pale yellowish- white, rounded at the apex, on which is 

 a small piceous spot ; Memhrane very short, pitchy black, with one 

 cell ; inner marginal and cell-nerve blackish, apex of the latter 

 wliite ; all the otlier characters as in the $ . 



Length, 2^ — 2^ lines. 



A very abundant species at Eltham, AVeybridge, Sandei'stead, 

 and other places in the London district. Tlie $ is frequently to be 

 met with by sweeping and beating Vmhellifercs, but we took both 

 sexes most commonly by searching amongst grass at the roots of 

 broom and other bushes, in July. 



Species 2. — Globiceps flavomaculatus. 



CiMEX FULViPEs, Scop. Eiit. Cam. 134, 388 (1703). 



Catsus flavomaculatus, Pauz. F. G. 92, 16 (1791); Fub. S. 11. 247, 



30 (1803); Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 120, 9 



(1829); Zeti. Ins. Lap. 278, 5 (1839); 



Mei/er, Caps. 91, 76 (1813) ; Sahib. Geoc. 



Fen. 96, 10 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 46, 31 



(1855). 

 Phytocokis — Burm. Haudb. ii, 207, 3 (1835). 



POLYMEKUS (KeLIDOCOKIS) FLAVOMACULATUS, Koleti. Mcl. Eut. ii, 103, 



75 (lSi5). 

 Capsus (Cafsus) FLAVOMACULATUS, Flur, Rlijii. Liv. i, 469, 2 (1860) 

 Globiceps flavomaculatus, Flor, Europ. Hem. 284, (1861). 



Black, sparingly clothed with very sliort silver- white hairs on the 

 lyronotum, and pale yellow ones on the elytra; Cuneus, apex 

 black. $ long oval, with undeveloped elytra. 



J Head shining ; Crown a little below the upper margin of the 

 eyes. Antennce ; Ist joint brownish-yellow, base and apex narrowly 



