482 CAPSINA. 



margin straight, angles rounded ; sides convex ; hinder angles short, 

 somewhat acute, slightly raised ; posterior margin convex, straight 

 across the scutellum ; disk convex, deflected to the head. Scutellum 

 triangular, level with the clavus, with a transverse channel near the 

 base, the basal portion concealed beneath the posterior margin of 

 the pronotum. Elytra horizontal, in the ^ a little longer than the 

 abdomen, in the ? as long as the abdomen ; Clavus convex, deflected 

 to the corium ; Corium convex ; anterior margin reflexed for about 

 |-rd its length from the base ; Cmieus short, triangular ; anterior 

 margin rounded at the base, leaving a small but distinct notch. 

 Sternum .• Frosternwn ; xyphus short, triangular, sides keeled ; Me- 

 sosternum short, convex on the sides, flattish above, elevated pos- 

 teriorly ; posterior margin almost straight in the middle ; Meta- 

 sternum in the middle very short, somewhat convex. Legs somewhat 

 stout ; tibice ; 3rd pair slightly bent ; tarsi ; 3rd joint of the 3rd 

 pair longest ; 1st and 2nd of almost equal length. 



Species 1. — Stiphrosoma leucocephala. 



CiMEX LEUCOCEPHALUs, Lin. F. S. 940 (1761) j S. N. 723, 60 (1767); 



De Geer, Mem. iii, 290, 28 (1780); Fab. 



Mantiss. ii, 304, 255 (1787). 

 LiG^us — Wolff, Ic. Cim. 76, tab. 8, fig. 73 (1801); 



Fab. S. R. 237, 173 (1808) ; Panz. Ins! 



Ger. 92, 12 (1805). 

 Phytocoris — Zett. Ins. Lap. 276, 32 (1839); Fall. Hem. 



Suec. i, 111, 67 (1829); Hahn. Wanz. ii, 



88, fig. 174 (1834). 

 Atttjs — Burm. Handb. ii, 276, 1 (1835). 



Capsus — Meyer, Caps. 109, 100 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. 



Fen. 117, 59 (1848); Kirschb. Caps. 86, 



114 (1855). 

 — (Capsus) leucocephalus, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 558, 51 (1860), 

 Stipheosoma leucocephala, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 280, 1 (1861). 



Black, clothed with very fine, short, depressed, whitish hairs. 



Zf(?ac? ferruginous. Antennce ; 1st joint ferruginous ; 2nd, 3rd, and 

 4th, black ; apex of the last brown. 



Thorax. — Fronotum deeply and coarsely punctured. Scutellum 

 wrinkled transversely, with a short IcTtigitudinal keel at the apex. 

 Elytra finely and thickly punctured, almost shagreened ; Membrane 



