4)12 CAPSINA. 



apex with a narrow browuish-black ring. Rostrum pale yellowish, 

 tip brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotmn frequently with brown spots on the sides 

 towards the hinder angles. Scutellum unspotted at the base. 

 Elytra ; Clavus grayish-yellow, irregularly spotted with brown ; 

 Cormm thickly and irregularly spotted with brown ; the interme- 

 diate spaces of a somewhat round form ; Cuneus pale grayish-white ; 

 inner margin in the middle narrowly red ; Memh^ane pale brownish, 

 iridescent ; below the cells, and next the anterior margin a large, 

 whitish patch, divided by a broad, somewhat curved, transverse 

 brown-black streak immediately below the apex of the cuneus ; cell- 

 nerves white, basal half of the outer one generally brownish ; cells 

 at the apex brown black. Zegs pale yellowish -white ; tliighs with 

 brown spots at the apex ; 3rd pair broadly brown ; tihice with black- 

 brown spots set in pairs, and longish, erect, somewhat spinose 

 black hairs ; tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint at the apes, and claws, brown. 



Abdomen ; underside grayish-white ; sides with brownish spots. 



Length, If line. 



Not uncommon by beating nut bushes, in August and September, 

 at Wickham, Darenth Wood, and Tunbridge "Wells. 



/Species 2. — Psallus Querceti. 



Phytocoris Querceti, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 102, 49 (1829). 

 Capsus sanguineus, Kirschb. Caps. 97, 140 (1855). 

 Psallus Querceti, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 305, 2 (18G1). 



Grayish or greenish-white, clothed with fine depressed, yellowish 

 hairs, sparingly intermixed with black ones. Elytra more or 

 less spotted with red. 



Sead. — Antenncs pale yellowish-white ; 1st joint before the apex 

 on the inside with a brown spot, in which is set a stout, erect, black 

 hair. Itostrum yellowish, tip blackish. 



Thorax. — Pronotwn with a few scattered red spots in front, and a 

 row consisting of 4 to 6 spots across the centre of the disk, some- 

 times obsolete. Scutellum more or less spotted with red at the 

 base. Elytra ; Clavus more or less spotted with I'ed ; Corinm more 

 or less spotted with red, frequently towards and at the apex between 

 the 1st nerve and claval suture reddish, the colouring between the 



