PSALLID^. 401 



Species 1. — Plagiognathus viridulus, 



PiiYTOCOKis VIRIDULUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 105, 51 (1829). 



Capsus — ■ Ealin. Wanz. ii, 136, fig. 221 (1831); Meyer, 



Caps. 11, 51, tab. 1, fig. 2 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. 



Fen. 103, 27 (1848) ; Eirschh. Caps. 98, 



142 (1855). 

 — (Capsus) viridulus, Ihr, Rhju. Liv. i, 595, 76 (1860) . 

 Plagiognathus — Fieb. Europ. Hem. 302, 4 (1861), 



Greenish or grayisli-green, thickly clothed with black hairs. 

 Corium ; anterior margin ciliate. 



Head. — AntenncB yellowish ; 1st joint at the base and before the 

 apex with a narrow black ring, or the base only black, apex narrowly 

 pale ; 2nd narrowly black at the base. Ei/es brown. Rostrum 

 yellow, tip brown. 



TJiorax. — Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; Clavus ; apex very nar- 

 rowly blackish ; Membrane blackish, iridescent ; between the apex 

 of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve a white, triangular patch, 

 immediately below which is a somewhat square black patch, followed 

 by a paler spot ; under the apex of the inner cell-nerve a black spot, 

 frequently continued into a short streak ; inner marginal nerve 

 piceous ; cell-nerves whitish or yellowish ; inner cell black. Leys 

 greenish or yellowish ; thighs underneath, with 3 longitudinal rows 

 of black spots, largest on the 3rd pair ; upperside next the apex 

 irregularly spotted with black ; tihice with large black spots, and 

 stout, somewhat spiuose, black hairs ; knees and apex blackish or 

 brown ; tarsi and claivs blackish. 



Abdomen underneath yellowish, clothed with very short yellowish 

 hairs. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Dr. i'lor, in ' Rhyn. Liv.,' i, 596, states that " generally the upper- 

 side of the abdomen of the $ is black, but in the J" , as a rule, and 

 sometimes in the ? , the entire abdomen and the underside of the 

 sternum is brown or blackish ; sometimes the head also is blackish," 

 but we have not met with any examples wherein these exceptions 

 occur. This species is very common amongst herbage and on plants 

 by waysides, from June to September. It has occurred at Charlton, 

 Sanderstead, Dareuth, Mickleham, and Folkestone. 



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