473 CAPSINA. 



one, and occupying the entire width of the pronotum ; anterior 

 margin straight, constricted ; sides straight to beyond the callosities, 

 then suddenly widening out to the hinder angles ; hinder angles 

 somewhat acute, reflexed in developed specimens, in undeveloped 

 ones somewhat overhanging the base of the elytra ; posterior margin 

 concave. Scutellmn triangular, equilateral, with a transverse channel 

 a little before the middle of the basal portion ; in developed 

 examples very convex, considerably raised above the clavus, and 

 deflected to the transverse channel ; hinder portion flattish convex, 

 constricted at the transverse channel, sides slightly convex. Elytra 

 longer than the abdomen, slightly elevated posteriorly, cuneus and 

 membrane slightly deflected ; Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; 

 Corium flattish convex ; anterior margin somewhat constricted 

 before the middle ; Cuneus triangular, anterior margin equal in 

 length to the base. Sternum : Prosternum ; xyphus triangular, sides 

 slightly convex ; Mesosternum short, convex, elevated posteriorly, 

 with a faint central channel ; posterior margin convex, indented in 

 the middle. Legs: thighs; 3rd pair slightly thickened before the 

 apex; tarsi; 3rd joint of the 3rd pair ^longest ; 1st and 2nd of 

 almost equal length. 



Abdomen of the ^ with the organ of generation exposed on the 

 left side. 



Species 1. — Eroticoris rufescens. 



Halticus rufescens, Burni. Handb. ii, 278, 4 (1835). 

 Capsus coiiizoiDES, H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 35, fig. 387 (1838), with deve- 

 loped elytra. 



— BKACHYPTERUS, Boh. Gott. Ins. Fauiia, 254 (1849) ; Kirschb. 



Caps. 71, 78, & 115 (1855). 



— (Capsus) rufescens, Flor, Rliyu. Liv. i, 543, 41 (1860). 

 AiLODAPUS* coRYZoiDES, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 262 (1861) 



— RUFESCENS, ScoU. Eut. Ami. 161, 1, tab. 1 fig. 4,? (1864). 



Brown-red, sparingly clothed throughout with fine, long, erect, 

 golden-yellow hairs. Botli sexes generally with undeveloped 

 elytra. 



Head pitchy brown ; Crown frequently, along the inner margin 

 of the eyes, and the antenniferous processes, reddish. Antennce ; 



* Allodape, a genus of Hymenoptera, Lepell. et Serv. 1825. 



