466 CAPSINA. 



rowly brown ; tibice with short, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; apex 

 narrowly brown; tarsi yellow; 1st joint sometimes brownish or 

 brownish-yellow ; 3rd at the apex, and claivs, black. 



Abdomen. — Underside brown or black in the middle ; sides yel- 

 lowish or reddish-yellow, or entirely pale greenish, clothed with fine, 

 pale-yellowish hairs. 



Length, 3 — 3^ lines. 



Not an uncommon species by sweeping flowers in woods, in 

 July and August. It has been taken at Cobham Park, Tunbridge 

 Wells, &c. 



Genus 6. — Pceciloscytus, Fieb. 

 ^ Elongate, slightly oval ; $ more robust, oval. 



Head short, vertical in front, almost twice as broad across the 

 eyes as long ; hinder margin not keeled between the eyes ; Crown 

 flatter in the ^ than the $ , deflected to the base of the clypeus ; 

 Clypeus convex ; base in the ^ lower than the anterior margin of 

 the eyes, in the $ level with it ; apex in the $ a little more promi- 

 nent than in the ^ ; the short antenniferous processes in a line with 

 the middle of the lower half of the eyes ; Face ; central lobe long, 

 convex, somewhat pointed ; side lobes short, narrowish, rounded out- 

 wardly. Antennae shorter than the body ; 1st joint cylindrical, as 

 long as the head ; 2nd gradually thickened to the apex, 8-1 times as 

 long as the 1st ; 3rd and ith filiform, together as long as the 2nd, 

 3rd equal to the 4th. Fyes large, prominent, more so in the $ than 

 in the $ , viewed from above hemispherical, from the side long oval. 

 JRostrum free, reaching almost to the 2nd pair of coxae ; 1st joint 

 stout, reaching to the middle of the xyphus of the prosteruum. 



Thorax. — Pronotuin trapeziform, twice as broad on the pos- 

 terior margin as long, with a collar and 2 somewhat indistinct cal- 

 losities in front ; anterior margin constricted ; sides almost straight ; 

 hinder angles short, rounded, slightly raised ; posterior margin 

 convex ; disk convex, deflected to the head. Scutellum triangular, 

 equilateral, very convex, and considerably raised above the clavus 

 with a transverse channel near the base, the basal portion con- 

 cealed beneath the posterior margin of the pronotum. Elytra hori- 

 zontal in the $, considerably longer than the abdomen, in the $ 

 elevated posteriorly, as long as the abdomen ; cuueus and membrane 



