416 CAPSINA. 



Not uncommon at Newport, South Wales ; Croydon ; and Cob- 

 ham Park, on ash trees, in June and July. 



Species 6. — Psallus lepidus. 



PsALLUS LEPIDUS, Fieb. Wien. Eiit. Monats. ii, 337, 25 (185S); Europ. 

 Hem. 305, 7 (1861). 



Brownish-red, clothed with fine, depressed, golden-yellow hairs, 

 intermixed with black ones. 



Head dusky-yellowish or yellowish-white; Groivn with a trans- 

 verse row of minute brownish-black spots between the eyes. Antennce 

 yellowish ; 3rd and 4th joints darker ; Rostrum yellowish, 4th joint 

 brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotuni in front sometimes dusky yellowish-white, 

 posteriorly blackish, or entirely blackish, except the callosities, 

 which are then yellowish-white. Scutellum blackish-red, sometimes 

 greenish-red, basal angles red ; apex narrowly whitish. Elytra ; 

 Clavus yellowish ; disk with 2 or 3 longitudinal rows of red spots of 

 irregular size ; apex brown-red ; Corium ; anterior margin at the 

 apex brownish-black ; disk brownish-red, the colour becoming darker 

 as it approaches the apex ; extreme base and the nerves narrowly 

 yellowish, the former with 1 or 2 red spots ; Cuneiis brownish-red ; 

 apex red ; base narrowly dusky yellow ; Membrane brownish ; be- 

 tween the apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve a whitisli, 

 somewhat triangular, patch, followed by a lunate black patch, below 

 which is an almost round yellowish spot, joined to a transverse streak 

 of the same colour, extending for more than half-way across the 

 disk ; outer cell narrowly margined with yellowish ; cell-nerves red- 

 dish ; cells yelloTvish, apex blackish. Legs yellowish or reddish- 

 yellow ; tliiglis thickly spotted with black towards the apex ; 3rd 

 pair on the upperside generally with 4 or 5 black spots ; tihics 

 yellowish, frequently reddish at the base, with black spots, and long, 

 erect, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; tarsi yellowish ; apex of the 

 3rd joint and claws brownish. 



Length, \\ line. 



Dr. Fieber has seen and determined this species to be the P. lepidus 

 of his work. It is abundant on ash trees, at Croydon, in June and 

 July. 



