LYGlDiE. 459 



Bluish-green, somewhat shining, clothed with very fine, short, 

 depressed, pale yellowish- white hairs. Cuneics ; apex narrowly 

 black ; tibice ; 3rd pair bent a little below the base, and with 

 short, spinose, black hairs. 



Head. — Anfennce shorter than the body, greenish or yellowish- 

 green; apex of the 2ud joint, and 3rd and 4th, brown. Face; 

 central lobe black. E^es black. Rostrum greenish-yellow, tip 

 piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum finely crenate-punctate. Scutellum finely 

 wrinkled transversely, slightly depressed in the centre next the 

 transverse channel. Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; Clavus and Corium 

 thickly and finely punctured, almost wrinkled transversely ; Cuneus; 

 apex narrowly black ; Membrane pale fuscous, iridescent ; between 

 the apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve a brown spot ; next 

 the apex of the anterior margin a large triangular brown patch, and 

 below the apex of the outer cell a short brown streak; inner 

 marginal nerve pitchy brown ; cell-nerves greenish-j^ellow ; apex of 

 both cells brown. Sternum greenish-yellow. Le^s greenish-yellow ; 

 thighs ; 2nd pair, sometimes, and 3rd, with 2 brown rings before the 

 apex ; tibi<^ ; 3rd pair bent a little below the base, with short, 

 Bpinose, black hairs ; apex narrowly brownish ; tarsi yellowish ; 3rd 

 joint and claws black. 



Abdomen ; underside greenish-yellow, clothed with fine, pale, 

 golden-yellow hairs ; sides with a more or less defined, broad, brown 

 streak. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



This species has occurred, though sparingly, at Eltham, on 

 brambles in August. Dr. Power and Mr. Crotch have also met 

 with it. 



Species 4. — Lygus sulcifrons. 



Capsus suLCirnoNS, Kirschb, Caps. 130, 7, & 183, 56a (1855). 



Elongate. 



Greenish or yellowish-green, clothed with very fine, short, depressed, 



pale yellowish- white hairs. Crown with a longitudinal channel ; 



iihice slightly bent a little below the base, and with small black 



spots, and brownish-yellow spinose hairs. 



