463 CAPSTNA. 



An abundant species, in July and August, by beating various 

 bushes and trees, and also by sweeping. It has been taken at 

 Croydon, Shirley, Darenth, Mickleham, Esher, &e. 



Species 6. — Lygus rubricatus. 



Ly&^tjs rubricatus, Fall. Mon. Cim. 91, 70 (1S07). 



PnyiocoRis rubricatus, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 100, 45 (1829); ZeU. Ins. 



Lap. 275, 27 (1830). 

 Lygus — Hahn, Wanz. i, 156, fig. 80 (1832); Fieb. 



Europ. Hem. 274, 3 (1861). 

 Capsus rubicundus, 3Iei/er, Caps. 72, 44 (1843). 



— RUBRICATUS, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 106, 34 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 



58, 55, &111, 55 (1855). 



— (Capsus) rubricatus, Flor, Ehyn. Liv. i, 526, 32 (1860). 



Short, slightly oval ; reddish or brownish-yellow, clothed with fine, 

 short, depressed, pale yellowish-white hairs ; tibice straight, 

 unspotted. 



Sead. — AntenncB yellowish or reddish-yellow; apex of the 2nd 

 joint sometimes, and Brd and 4th, brownish. Eyes black or brown. 

 Rostrum yellowish, tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum deeply and thickly punctured ; sometimes the 

 entire disk is piceous, the anterior and posterior margins, and a 

 V-shaped patch between the callosities, reddish-yellow or yellowish. 

 ScuteUum faintly wrinkled transversely ; brownish-yellow, yellowish, 

 or brownish ; in the latter case, the apex is narrowly yellowish. 

 Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; Clavics very thickly and minutely 

 punctured ; inner margin, in brownish-yellow examples, between the 

 scutellar angle and the apex, brown ; apex of the nerve narrowly 

 brown ; Corium very thickly and minutely punctured ; anterior 

 margin in brownish-yellow examples, brown-red ; within the bifur- 

 cation of the first nerve at the apex, a brown spot ; Cuneus reddish- 

 yellow ; apex and inner basal angle frequently red or brownish-red, 

 or the former brown ; Membrane pale piceous, iridescent ; between 

 the apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve, a narrow blackish 

 streak, and a little below this, on the anterior margin, a triangular 

 blackish patch, its apex at the apex of the outer cell-nerve ; inner 

 marginal nerve at the base brown ; cell-nerves reddish or reddish- 

 yellow ; apex of both cells blackish. Legs yellowish; thighs; 3rd 

 pair, and sometimes the 2nd, at the apex broadly red, the former 



