436 CAPSINA, 



Head. — Antennce ; Ist aud 2 ud joints black, clothed with short 

 black hairs, the latter stout, cylindrical-fusiform ; 3rd and 4tli 

 yellowish. Bostrum brown, tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum slightly deflected to the head. Elytra; 

 Clavus chestnut-brown, inner margin narrowly black ; Corium ; an- 

 terior margin dark brown, widest at the apex ; disk chestnut-brown ; 

 posterior margin very narrowly white ; Cimeiis dark brown ; Mem- 

 brane blackish, along the inner margin of the cuneus narrowly 

 white; cell-nerves whitish; cells brownish. Ler/s ; thiijlis black; 

 tibice yellowish-white, with small black spots and short, somewhat 

 spinose, black hairs ; the base broadly, the apex narrowly, brown ; 

 tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint at the apex broadly, and claws, blackish. 



Length, 1\ line. 



"We have only seen 2 5 examples of this insect, taken by Dr. Power, 

 one at Cowley, in Jidy, and the other in Kew Grardens, in August. 



According to Flor, it is not uncommon on JPinus Abies, from 

 June to September. 



In form and size it closely resembles the Capstis magnicornis of 

 Hahn, ' Wanz.,' i, 130, fig. 67, and Meyer, Caps. 62, 29, t. 2, fig. 4, 

 but it is there described and figured as having black rings on the 

 hinder tibiae. 



Species 2. — Atractotomus Pini. 



Pitchy black or brown, clothed with very short, depressed, yellow 

 and white hairs intermixed, having a scale-like appearance, and 

 with longer and almost erect black ones. 



Head. — Antennce brownish-yellow or pitchy brown, apex of the 

 4th joint yellowish. Eyes large, dark brown, with a reddish-tinge. 

 nostrum brownish-yellow ; 1st joint and base of the 2nd and 3rd 

 piceous ; 4th black. 



Thorax. — Fronotum finely wrinkled transversely. Elytra ; Clavus 

 somewhat shagreened ; Corium ; anterior margin ciliate, the extreme 

 base generally, and sometimes a small portion of the anterior margin, 

 brownish-yellow ; Membrane diaphanouy, iridescent, fuscous, darJvcr 

 along the anterior margin ; below the apex of the outer cell a small 

 whitish spot, and along the inner margin of the cuneus narrowly 

 white ; cell-nerves piceous, apex of the outer cell-nerve yellowish ; 

 cells brown. Sternum black. Legs pitchy black or brown ; thighs 



