422 CAPSINA. 



Species 1. — Sthenaiius Rotermundi. 



Cafsus Rotermuxdi, Scholtz, Arb. uud Veraud. sp. 42 (1846). 



— (Capsus) Rotekmundi, Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 594, 75 (1860). 

 Sthenarus Rotermundi, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 810, 2 (1861). 



Gray or gray-greenish, thickly clothed with fine, depressed, silver 

 white hairs. 



Head yellowish ; Croivn with a small black spot on each side of the 

 centre, between the eyes, or with a broad, dark-brown streak ex- 

 tending to the apex of the clypeus ; Face ; central and side lobes 

 black. AnteniKB yellowish or pale brownish-yellow. Eyes black. 

 nostrum brownish ; 4th joint pieeous, pale at the base. 



Thorax, — Pronotum gray-yellowish or gray-greenish, with a black 

 or brown streak on the callosities ; sides narrowly pale or dark 

 gray ; anterior margin broadly yellowish ; across the callosities 

 a broad black streak generally divided in the centre by a short 

 nai'row yellowish line. Scufellum ; anterior portion dark gray ; 

 bas^al angles narrowly brownish-yellow ; hinder portion yel- 

 lowish. Elytra : Claims ; inner margin and suture, except the 

 base of the latter, narrowly black ; apex narrowly dark gray ; disk 

 generally pale brownish-yellow ; Corlum ; anterior margin at the 

 apex dark gray ; disk pale grayish-yellow, 1st nerve reddish ; near 

 the claval suture a short pale streak about midway between the 

 apex and a line drawn to the scutellar angle ; or the 1st nerve 

 broadly pale, with a broad streak on either side, and a large, trian- 

 gular patch at the inner posterior angle, dark gray ; Cuneus bright 

 red, base more or less broadly white ; Membrane dark gray, irides- 

 cent ; below the apex of the cuneus a roundish white spot, and 

 below the apex of the outer cell a short blackish streak ; inner 

 marginal nerve brown ; cell-nerves white ; apical half of the outer 

 cell and the inner one blackish. Sternum ; Prosterniim yellowish ; 

 Mesosternum ; sides reddish or reddish-yellow ; centre black ; Meta- 

 sternum yellowish. Legs whitish or pale yellowish-white; tliifjhs 

 frequently reddish on the underside ; 1st and 2nd pairs with 1 

 row, 3rd with 2 rows of brown spots on the underside ; upper 

 margin with 2 brown spots, one a little before and the otlicr at 

 the apex, in each of wliich, in the 1st and 2nd pairs is set a single, 

 stout, erect, spinose hair ; 3rd pair with 2 hairs in each ; iib'ue 



