LYGID^E. 455 



Species 3. — Orthops pastinac^. 



Lyg^us pastinac^. Fall. Mon. Cira. 86, 57 (1807). 

 Phttocokis pastinactE, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 94, 35 (1829). 

 Capsus — Sahib. Geoc. Pen. 113, 48 (1848). 



— LuciDUS KirscJib. Caps. 68, 71, & pp. 113 & 131 (1855). 



— (Capsus) pastinac.^, Flor, Rliyu. Liv. i, 523, 30 (1860). 

 Ojrthops pastinac^, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 278, 3 (1861). 



Bluish or yellowish-green, clothed with short, fine, depressed, yellow 

 hairs ; tliighs ; 3rd pair without black or brown rings, rarely 

 with 2 spots on the upperside. 



Head. — Antennce ; 1st joint green, the base and apex, or the apex 

 only, narrowly brown ; 2nd brownish-yellow, apex and 3rd and Ith 

 joints brown. Bostrum greenish or yellowish-green ; tip piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotuvi thickly and deeply punctured ; callosities pale 

 brownish-yellow, their hinder margins brown, rarely with a small 

 round brown spot at the hinder angles. Scutellum yellowish-green, 

 finely w^rinkled transversely. EJi/tra : Clavus ; inner margin pitchy 

 black ; disk pale brownish, more or less piceous between the scutellar 

 angle and the apex ; Corium ; anterior margin bluish or yellowish- 

 green ; at the apex, between the 1st nerve and the inner margin, a 

 large brown spot ; Cuneus green, somewhat paler at the base ; Mem- 

 brane iridescent, almost transparent ; below the apex of the outer 

 cell a narrow, longitudinal, pale-brown streak, extending to the 

 apex of the anterior margin ; cell-nerves greenish-yellow. Sternum ; 

 centre pitchy black. Legs bluish or yellowish-green ; tliiglis ; 3rd 

 pair rarely with 2 brown spots on the upperside next the apex ; 

 tibiGB narrowly brown at the apex, with short, stout, somewhat 

 spinose, black hairs ; 1st pair at the base generally with a short, 

 brown streak down the outside ; tarsi brownish-yeUow ; apex of the 

 3rd joint, and claws, black. 



Abdomen; upperside black ; connexivum bluish or yellowish- 

 green ; underside bluish or yellowish-green. 



Length, 1| — 2 lines. 



A common species, from May to September, by beating or sweep- 

 ing herbage. It has been taken at Mickleham, Strood, Sanderstead, 

 and other places in the London district. Scarborough {WilJcinson). 



This insect rarely retains its colour after death, and generally 

 changes to yellow, grayish, or pale brownish-yellow. 



