414 CAPSINA. 



narrow, slightly curved, transverse blackish streak immediately 

 below the apex of the cuneus, frequently joined to a short, narrow, 

 longitudinal, blackish streak below the apex of the cells ; cell-nerves 

 •whitish ; apex of both cells more or less broadly blackish. Legs 

 yellowish-white ; thighs more or less spotted with brown towards 

 the apex, esj)ecially on the underside ; 3rd pair generally reddish ; 

 on their upper margin, before the apex, a large black spot frequently 

 divided, in which is set a stout, somewhat spinose, black hair; 

 tihice whitish, with brown spots, and longish, erect, somewhat 

 spinose, black hairs ; tarsi yellowish-white ; 3rd joint at the apex, 

 and claivs, brownish. 



Abdomen ; underside white ; sides red, somewhat spotted with 

 white ; genital segments red. 



Length, 1| — If line. 



Not common. At Deal, by beating dwarf sallows, in August, in 

 company with P. Querceti. 



Species 4. — Psallus Alni. 



Carmine-red, thickly clothed with longish, golden-yellow hairs, some- 

 what disposed in irregular patches. Pronotum with 2 trans- 

 verse rows of minute black spots. Cuneus carmine-red. 



Head. — Antennae brownish-yellow ; 1st joint reddish-brown. 

 Mostruyn brow^nish-yellow ; tip brown. 



Thbrax. — Fronotmn with a transverse row of minute black spots 

 across the centre of the disk, and another across the posterior 

 margin of the callosities. Scutelluni ; apex generally brownish. 

 Elytra : Clavus ; apex narrowly blackish ; Cuneus carmine-red ; 

 base next the anterior margin narrowly white ; Membrane blackish ; 

 between the apex of the cuneus and the cells a triangular white 

 patch, immediately followed by a transverse black streak ; below the 

 latter and extending from the anterior margin to beyond the middle 

 of the disk a whitish patch ; cell-nerves reddish ; cells pale, apex 

 blackish. Sternum carmine-red ; Mesosternum ; anterior margin 

 narrowly, and centre broadly, brownish-black. Legs red; thighs 

 spotted with black towards the apex ; tihice with black spots, and 

 longish, erect, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; tarsi brownish-yellow ; 

 3rd joint and claws brown. 



