434 CAPSINA. 



Species 3. — Heterocordylus tibialis. 



Capsus tibialis, HaJm, Wauz. i, 128, fig. 66 (1831) ; Kirschb. Caps. 

 85, 113 (1855). 

 — Spaktii, Boh. iu lit. (Fieber). 

 Hetebocordylus tibialis, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 290, 2 (1861). 



Black, thickly covered with whitish scales and short, fine, depressed, 

 yellowish-hairs ; tibice reddish-yellow, base and apex black- 

 brown. 



Head. — Grown with a fovea near each eye, adjoining the hinder 

 marginal keel. Antenna ; 2nd joint slightly clavate, 4th frequently 

 reddish-brown. Bostrmn piceous, 4th joint black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum finely wrinkled transversely ; callosities 

 prominent. ScuteUum finely wrinkled transversely. Elytra finely 

 shagreened ; Menibrane piceous ; between the apex of the cuneus 

 and the inner cell-nerve a whitish patch ; below the latter, and 

 extending to the apex of the anterior margin a brown patch ; cell- 

 nerves brown, apex of the inner one whitish ; outer cell, and some- 

 times the whole or a portion of the inner one brown. Stermmi in 

 the middle brownish-yellow. Legs; coxce and fulcra dusky-yel- 

 lowish ; thiglis black ; tibics reddish-yellow, base and apex black- 

 brown ; tarsi and claws black. 



Length, 1\ lines. 



Not imcommon on broom, at Croydon, Shirley, Dartford Heath, 

 Birch Wood, Wimbledon, &c., in June and July. 



Genus 5. — Atractotomus, Fieh. 



Short, somewhat narrow, sides in the ^ almost parallel, in tlie ? 

 slightly oval. 



Head pointed, short, almost vertical in front, 2 to 1\ times as 

 broad across the eyes as long ; Grown convex ; Clypeus convex, very 

 much deflected, apex almost level with the anterior margin of the 

 eyes ; antenniferous processes very short, in a line with the lower 

 margin of the eyes ; Face pointed ; central lobe long, convex, slightly 

 prominent ; side lobes short, narrow. Antenncc shorter than the 



