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deflected, the latter frequently abbreviated ; Clavus convex, deflected 

 to the eorium ; Corium in the (^ almost flat, in tlie $ convex ; 

 Cmieus triangular, longer in the ^ than in the $ . Sternum : Pro- 

 sternum ; xyphus triangular; llesosternmii convex, with a faint 

 channel in the centre, anteriorly compressed into a triangle ; pos- 

 terior margin convex, distinctly keeled, indented in the middle 

 Metastermwi, ; centre small, with a callosity in the middle. 



Species 1. — Pceciloscytus unifasciatus. 



LvGiEus TTNIFASCIATUS, Fafj. E. S. iv, 17S, 153 (1794). 



Capsus — Fad. S. R. 2i3, 9 (1803); E. Sc//f. Nom. Ent. 



i, 51 (1835); Mei/er, Caps. 104, 93 (1843); 



&!/ild. Geoc. Fen. 108, 39 (1848) ; Kirschb. 



Caps. Gl, 59, & p. 112 (1855). 

 MiRis SEMIFLAVUS, TFolf, Ic. Cim. 154, tab. 15, fig. 148, a, t/ (1804). 

 PnYTOCOUis SEiiirLAVUs, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 86, 21, (1829); Hahn, 

 Wanz. i, 208, fig. 107 (1832). 



— LATERALIS & MAKGINATUS, Huhi, Waiiz. ii, 85, figs. 109 & 



170 (1834). 



— UNIFASCIATUS, Koloi. Mel. Ent. ii, 123, 105 (1857). 

 Capsus (Capsus) unifasciatus, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 544, 42 (1860). 

 Pceciloscytus — Fieb. Europ. Hem. 276, 1 (1861). 



$ Elongate ; ? robust, oval. Black with yellow markings, clothed 

 with fine, depressed, golden yellow hairs. Cuneus bright red, 

 on the anterior margin a somewhat half oval black patch. 

 ^ with abbreviated elytra. 



Head black ; Crown with a yellow spot on the inner margin of 

 each eye. AntenncB yellowish ; apex of the 2nd joint, and 3rd and 

 4th, black. Eostrum brown, tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum black, thickly and finely punctured, and 

 faintly wrinkled transversely ; posterior margin yellow. Scutellum 

 finely wrinkled transversely, apex yellow. Elytra of the ^ longer 

 than the ?, in the latter barely covering the abdomen; Clavus 

 black ; Corium black ; anterior margin yellow ; basal half of the disk 

 yellow, toothed at its apex ; between the 2nd nerve, and the apex of 

 the clavus, a triangular yellow patch, or the space between the 2nd 

 nerve and the claval suture yellow, and the apex between the 

 bifurcation of the 1st nerve yellow ; Cuneus bright red, on the 



