476 CAPSINA. 



Species 2. — Lopus miles. 



Black, sparingly clothed with fine, short, depressed, yellowish hairs. 

 Thighs with a broad yellow ring in the middle ; tihioB with a 

 broad pale ring beyond the middle. 



Head. — Crown with a broad orange-yellow streak along the inner 

 margin of the eyes ; hinder margin frequently orange-yellow ; 

 Clypeus ; side lobes yellow, or orange-yellow. AntenncB black. Ros- 

 trum pitchy black ; apex of the 2nd and 3rd joints narrowly, and 

 base of the 4th broadly, brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotum >• sides red, broadest at the hinder angles ; 

 generally with a central line, a transverse streak across the anterior 

 margins of the callosities, and the centre of the collar, yellow. 

 Scutelhim red, basal angles black. Elytra ; $ > Corimn ; anterior 

 margin whitish, or yellowish -white ; ^ black, base somewhat pale ; 

 Ciineus red, apex and basal inner angle black ; Membrane blackish, 

 slightly iridescent ; below the apex of the cuneus, and along the 

 anterior margin a short narrow yellowish streak ; inner marginal and 

 cell-nerves pitchy brown, the outer cell narrowly margined with 

 black. Sternum : Prosternum ; sides red or orange-red ; xyphus 

 pale yellow ; Ilesosternum black, sides exteriorly narrowly reddish ; 

 Metastermim \Aa,c\i, sides exteriorly narrowly reddish. Legs; coxce 

 black, apex yellow ; fulcra yellow ; thighs black, with a broad yellow 

 ring in the middle ; tihioe black, with a broad brownish-yellow ring 

 beyond the middle, and with short, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; 

 tarsi and claws black. 



Abdomen underneath black ; Connexivum and sides of the segments 

 reddish. 



Length, 3 — 3^ lines. 



This insect closely resembles L. gothicus, from which it may be 

 distinguished by the pale ring on the thighs, and also from the 

 anterior margin of the corium of the ^ being black, the basal half 

 dusky white. 



Several specimens beaten from toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) in hedges, 

 in July, near Halfway Street. 



