3.28 CAPSINA, 



extreme apex is pi(3eous ; Corium witli a streak extending from the 

 apex about half- way along the 1st nerve, a somewhat longish trian- 

 gular patch between the latter and the 2nd nerve, reddish or rosy ; 

 Cuneiis ; anterior margin somewhat piceous ; Memhrane pale smoky- 

 gray ; the inner margin, from the base to a little beyond a line with 

 the tip of the euneus, piceous ; cell-nerves yellowish, witli a small 

 brown spot at the base of the outer cell next the outer angle, and 

 occasionally a piceous streak below the apex. Legs yellowish , apex 

 oi aWihe tliiglis broadly brown or reddish-brown; occasionally tlie 

 3rd pair have a row of pitchy black spots on each side along the centre, 

 and carried in an oblique direction to the upperside as they approach 

 the apex ; tibiae reddish-brown, or piceous at the base and apex, 

 and with short, stout, black hairs ; tarsi and claws black. 



Length, 3J — 4< lines. 



A common species, taken at Mickleham, Darenth, Folkestone, 

 aud other places, by sweeping amongst grass, &c., in June and 

 July. 



8]3ecie8 10.^ — DERiEOcoiiis marginellus. 



MiEis MAiiGiNELLiis, Tah. S. R. 255, 14 (1S03). 

 PiiYTOcouis SCRIPTUS, Hahi, Wanz. ii, 120, fig. 203 (1S33). 

 Capsus (Dek.eocokis) marginellus, K'u-schb. Caps. 50, 38 (1855). 

 HoMODEMUS MARGiNELLiTs, Fieb. Europ. Ileui. 250, 2 (ISGl). 



Somewhat elongate. Elack, clothed with fine, short, yellow hairs. 



Head with a yellow streak on the inside of each eye ; Face ver- 

 tical ; central lobe large, stout, convex ; side lobes short, somewhat 

 stout. Antenna ; 1st and 2nd joints reddish ; base and apex of the 

 1st, and apex of the 2nd, black ; 3rd and 4th pitchy black, or black ; 

 base of the 3rd yellowish-white. Hostriim pitchy brown; tip 

 black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the collar, joined in 

 front by a short, transverse keel ; sides straight ; hinder angles 

 slightly raised ; posterior margin convex ; disk convex, thickly and 

 deeply punctured ; collar, a central line, and a line on each side 

 extending from the outside of the callosities to the posterior margin, 

 within the hinder angles, yellow. ScuteUum black. Elytra; Clavus, 

 from the suture to beyond the nerve, yellow ; Corium within the 



