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Species 7. — Psallus dtlutus. 



PsALLUS DiLUTUS {Mei/er\ Wieu. Eat. Monats. ii, 338, 28 (1858); 

 Fleb. Europ. Hem. 305, 10 (ISGl). 



Very pale whitish-yellow, clothed with depressed, white hairs, inter- 

 mixed with somewhat erect, black ones. 



Sead yellowish. Antennce yellowish. Rostrum yellowish ; tip 

 brown. 



Thorax. — Tronotum in front yellowish. Elytra; Membrane ^pale 

 fnscous ; a little below the apex of the cuneus a transverse brown 

 streak, sometimes interrupted, extending from in a line with the 

 apex of the outer cell to the anterior margin ; the latter narrowly 

 brown ; cell-nerves whitish ; cells yellowish ; apex of the outer 

 broadly and the inner entirely blackish. Legs; thighs very pale 

 whitish-yellow ; apex yellowish, spotted with black on the upper 

 and undersides, the upper margin with 3 or 4 black spots ; tihi<s 

 with black spots, and long, erect, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; 

 tarsi yellowish ; apex of the 3rd joint, and claws, brown. 



Abdomen underneath yellowish, with minute blackish spots along 

 the margin. 



Length, if — 2 lines. 



We have only seen 2 examples, taken near Cobham Wood, in 

 July, and supposed to have been beaten from oaks. 



Species 8. — Psallus roskus. 



Lyg^us koseus, Fab. S. R. 238, 178 (1803). 



Phytocoris roseus, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 101, 47 (1829) ; Zell. Ins. Lap. 



275, 26 (1839). 

 Capsus — H. Schf. Nom. Ent. i. 49 (1835); Wanz. iii, 71. 



fig. 287 (1S3G); Mei^er, Caps. 67, 37 (1843); 



Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 107, 35 (1S4S) ; KirsM. Caps. 



96, 135 (1855) ? 

 — (Capsus) roseus, Flor, Hhyn. Liv. i, 59], 73 (1860). 

 Psallus roseus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 305, 12 (1861). 



Eed, ochreous-red, or reddish-yellow, clothed with fine, depressed, 



golden-yellow hairs. 



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