318 CAPSINA. 



S^jecies 2. — DekyEocoris striatellus. 



Lyg.*;us siruATELLUs, Fub. S. 11. 230, 161 (1803j ; l\iaz. F. G. 93, 17 



(ISOl — 1S05). 

 MiRis — WoJjf, Ic. Cim. 156, t. 15, fig. 150, «, h a«01). 



Phytocokis — Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 84, 15 (1829) ; Halm, Wauz. 



ii, 133, Cg. 218 (1833); Zett. lus. Lap. 272, 8 



(1839j; Koleii. Mel. Ent. ii, 113, 89 (1845). 

 Capsus — Meyer, Caps. 91, 81 (184-3) ; Sahib. Geoc Een. 



105, 30 (1848). 



— (DEKii;ocoius) STRIATELLUS, Kirsclib. Caps. 56, 50 (1855). 



— (Capsus) — Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 492, 14 I ISGO). 

 Calocoeis stkiatellus, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 251, 1 (1861). 



Lougish oval; yellow; clotlied with very short, pale yellowish- 

 white hairs. Antennce somewhat filiform. 



Head with a black, piceous, or red-browu central streak, extendiug 

 from between the eyes to the apex of the clypeus, and a reddish or 

 reddish-brown streak on each side the central one, curving round, 

 and generally uniting immediately behind it ; anteuniferous pro- 

 cesses margined with black ; Face vertical ; central lobe convex 

 longish, somewhat stout ; base and a central streak piceous ; 

 side lobes short, somewhat stout, blackish at the base. Antenncc 

 yellowish ; 3rd and 4th joints and the apex of the 2ud brownish 

 or piceous. Rostrum reaching to the 1st or 2nd abdominal segment ; 

 yellowish or reddish-yellow ; tip black. 



Tliorax. — Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the collar; hinder 

 angles very slightly raised ; posterior margin convex, almost straight 

 in the middle ; disk convex, very finely punctured, much deflected ; 

 posterior margin of the collar generally 2 spots behind each cal- 

 losity, and a posterior band (within the margin) broadly black ; 

 sometimes the spots are united, and the posterior band more or less 

 interrupted. Scutellum finely wrinkled transversely, black at the 

 base as far as the transverse channel. Elytra: Claviis ; inner 

 margin and a streak on each side the nerve black ; Corium ; anterior 

 margin and a streak on both sides of the 1st and 2ud nerves black ; 

 apex of the anterior margin, a triangular patch between the fur- 

 cation within the end of the 1st nerve, and the inner angle, black ; 

 CuHcus yellow ; apex bhick ; anterior margin rounded at the base, 



