468 CAPSINA. 



anterior margin a somewhat half oval black patch ; base, and apex, 

 narrowly yellow ; Memhrane black ; the cells exteriorly more or less 

 broadly margined with pale yellowish ; inner marginal nerve black ; 

 cell-nerves yellow ; cells pale yellowish, the inner margin of the 

 outer and the inner cell black. Sternum black. Legs ; coxce and 

 fulcra black, the latter yellow on the upperside ; thighs brown 

 or black, more or less red at the apex, sometimes spotted ; 3rd pair 

 next the base with a broad yellow ring ; tihi<s yellowish, with stout, 

 somewhat spinose, black hairs ; apex of all the pairs, and base of the 

 3rd, brown or black ; tarsi brownish yellow ; 1st joint brown ; 3rd, 

 sometimes the apex of the 2nd, and clatvs, black. 



Abdomen ; upper and underside black ; margin of the connexivum 

 yellow. 



Length, (J 3— 3| ; ? , 2| lines. 



Somewhat common. It has occurred at Lee, Mickleham, Cowley, 

 Folkestone, in June, July, and August. 



Family 15.— HARPOCERID^. 



Genus 1. — Harpocera, Curt. 



^ Elongate, somewhat parallel ; $ broad, slightly oval. 



Sead vertical in front, broader across the eyes tlian long ; Crown 

 convex, slightly deflected to the base of the clypeus, vphich is almost 

 in a line with the anterior margin of the eyes ; Clypeus convex ; 

 Face ; central lobe broad, convex, prominent ; side lobes short, 

 narrow, somewhat parallel ; antenniferous processes in a line with 

 the middle of the lower half of the eyes. Antennce shorter than the 

 body ; 1st joint longer than the head, stouter in the ^ than in the 

 $ , somewhat cylindrical, and narrowed towards the apex ; 2nd in 

 the ^ , -i^ as long as the 3rd ; on the underside, at the apex, produced 

 into a flattish triangular lobe ; in the $ , nearly | the length of the 

 2nd, thickened at the apex, but not produced into a lobe ; 3rd 

 straight in the ^ , curved in the $ ; 4th as long as the 1st. Eyes 

 large, viewed from above almost hemispherical ; from the side long 

 oval. Rostrum reaching to the end of the raesosternum ; 1st joint 

 reaching to the end of the xyphus of the prosternura. 



Thorax. — Pronotum trapeziform, with 2 callosities in front, 1-| 

 time as broad on the posterior margin as long ; anterior margin 

 straight, angles rounded ; sides concave ; hinder angles rounded ; 



