460 CAPSINA. 



Head. — Crown with a longitudinal channel, deepest between the 

 eyes, and generally reaching to the apex of the clypeus. Anfenncs 

 greenish, or yellowish-green ; apex of the 2nd joint, and 3rd and 

 4th entirely, brown, base of the 3rd narrowly pale. E^es black, 

 in the (J larger than in the $ , and their inner margins considerably 

 more approximate. Itostnim yellowish-green, tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum somewhat coarsely wrinkled transversely. 

 Scutellum finely wrinkled transversely, l^depressed in the centre next 

 the transverse channel. Elytra somewhat diaphanous; Clavus ; 

 inner margin very narrowly pale brownish-yellow; disk finely 

 wrinkled transversely ; CoriuDi finely wrinkled transversely ; apical 

 inner angle, with a small brown spot, wanting in the $ ; Cuneus ; 

 apex very narrowly fringed with black hairs ; Membrane blackish, 

 iridescent ; between the apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve 

 a somewhat triangular black patch, immediately followed by a large, 

 oval, yellowish one, in the middle of which, at the anterior margin, 

 is a lunate blackish patch ; below the apex of the cells a large, some- 

 what triangular, black patch, its apex extending into the broadly 

 black apical margin ; exterior margin of the cells narrowly pale ; 

 inner marginal nerve brown at the base ; cell-nerves yellowish ; 

 cells yellowish ; base of the outer cell in the J" and apex of both 

 broadly black. Siernnm greenish-yellow. Le(/s greenish or greenish- 

 yellow; thighs; 3rd pair with 2 blackish bands before the apex, and 

 a few irregularly disposed black spots along the underside ; tihice 

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

 brownish-yellow spinose hairs ; tarsi yellowisli ; 3rd joint, sometimes 

 the apex only, black ; claios brownish -yellow. 



Abdomen; tipperside green, the centre more or less broadly 

 brown ; underside greenish-yellow, clothed with fine yellowish-white 

 hairs. 



Length, 2f— 3 lines. 



Kirschbaum's description has been drawn up from a single 

 (^ , and Fieber in the appendix tothe'Europ. Hem.,' p. 392 says, 

 that it is synonymous with L. contaminattts. We have, however, 

 several examples, and they all accord with Kirschbaum's description, 

 and possess many points of difference sufficient to separate them from 

 that species. The principal differences are its narrower form, 

 the closer proximity of the eyes in the ^ , the entirely gi*ecnish or 

 greenish-yellow clavus, the black patch in the outer cell of the mem- 

 brane, extending along the outer margin nearly to the base, which 



