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Species 1. — Campyloneura virgula. 



Capsus virgula, H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 51, fig. 268 (1836). 

 Campyloneura virgula, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 269 (ISGl). 



Pale yellow, sparingly clothed witli short, fine white hairs. 



Head black ; Crown on the inside of the hinder margin of the 

 eyes with a yellow spot. Antennce clothed with very short, fine 

 white hairs ; 1st joint yellow or red, apex brown ; 2nd black, apex 

 generally brownish-yellow ; 3rd yellow, basal 3rd brown or red ; 

 4th yellow. Rostrum yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; collar pale yellowish-white; callosities 

 orange-reddish, with a small puncture in the centre ; sides frequently 

 narrowly bright red from behind the callosities ; disk pale yellowish- 

 white, finely punctured and transversely wrinkled. Scictellum ; 

 from the base to the transverse channel orange-yellow ; sides brown ; 

 hinder portion pale yellow. Elytra diaphanous ; Clavus ; base red- 

 dish-brown ; inner margin and suture, except the base of the latter, 

 narrowly black ; nerve pale brownish-yellow ; disk pale pitchy 

 brown ; Corium ; anterior margin black, extreme base reddish or 

 reddish-brown ; disk wax-white ; between the apex of the clavus and 

 the posterior inner angle, a pale piceous, oval patch ; Cuneus ; base 

 bright lemon-yellow, generally paler next the anterior margin ; apex 

 bright carmine, frequently continued along the anterior margin for 

 about frds its length ; 2Iemhrane blackish, iridescent, with a broad, 

 clear, curved patch below the outer cell-nerve, and extending to the 

 apex of the cuneus ; cell-nerves bright-red. Legs pale yellow, 

 clothed witli short, fine, yellowish- white hairs; thighs; next the 

 apex orange-yellow ; tihice ; 1st and 2nd pairs somewhat stout ; 3rd 

 pair with a few longish, somewhat spinose, brownish-yellow hairs ; 

 tarsi ; extreme apex of the 3rd joint and claivs black. 



Abdomen. — (^ yellow, clothed with short, fine, yellow hairs ; $ , 

 apex of the ovipositor and a large round spot on the side of the 3rd 

 genital segment black. 



Length, If — 1^ line. 



Not an uncommon species by beating beech trees at Wickham, 

 also on palings at Bromley and Bexley, in August and September. 



