LYGTD.E. 463 



with a few minute, brownish-red spots ; tibicB with short, somewhat 

 spinose, yellowish hairs ; tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint black ; claws 

 brown. 



Abdo7)ien ; underside brown, clothed with fine, pale, yellowish- 

 white hairs ; sides with a broad red streak ; genital segments red or 

 yellowish. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Not an uncommon species at Shirley, on Piiius sylvestris, in 

 August. 



Species 7. — Lygus campestris. 



CiMEX CAMPESTRIS, Liti. F. S. 950 (1761) ; S. N. 728, 87 (1767). 

 LYG.EUS — Fah. Mautiss. ii, 303, 246 (1787) ; E. S. iv, 171, 125 



(1791) ; S. R. 234, 154 (1803). 

 PnYTOCORis CAMPESTRIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 91, 29 (1829) ; Halin, 



Wauz. i, 218, fig. 113 (1832) ; Zett. Ins. 



Lap. 273, 13 (1839) ; Kolen, Mel. Ent. ii, 



118, 97 (1845). 

 Capsus — Sahib. Geoc. Een. Ill, 44 (1848) ; Kirschb. 



Caps. 65, 67 (1855). 

 Capsus (Capsus) pratensis (in pars) Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 517, 28 



(1860). 

 Lygus campestris, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 273, 2 (1861). 



Oval. Grayish-green, grayish-yellow, or brown-reddish, thickly 

 clothed with long, silky, depressed, pale yellowish hairs ; thighs 

 with 2 brown or red-brown rings near the apex. 



Head. — Antennce yellowish ; 3rd and 4th joints brownish, 3rd pale 

 at the base. Ei/es black or brown-black. Bostvum yellow, tip 

 black. 



Thorax. — Fronotnm deeply and irregularly punctured ; greenish, 

 brownish, or reddish-brown ; in front to beyond the callosities 

 greenish-yellow or yellowish. ScuteUiim green, punctured, and 

 wrinkled transversely ; towards and at the transverse channel yel- 

 lowisli or brownish-yellow, with a short, black streak on each side 

 of the centre ; apex narrowly pale. Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin 

 piceous, slightly broadest at the base ; disk thickly and coarsely 

 punctured, the centre more or less clouded with brown ; Coriiim ; 

 anterior margin narrowly black ; disk thickly and somewhat coarsely 

 punctured ; between the 1st nerve and the claval suture more or less 



