CAPSiD^. 423 



whitish ; base red ; apex narrowly black, with large brown spots 

 and longish, stout, erect, spinose, black hairs ; tarsi ; 1st joint 

 piceous ; 2nd pale ; 3rd and claas black. 



Abdomen ; upperside brownish-yellow, piceous or blackish in the 

 middle ; margin of the connexivum more or less, and genital seg- 

 ments bright red ; underside yellowisli, clothed with fine, silver- 

 white hairs ; centre, connexivum, and genital segments bright-red. 



Length, 1^ line. 



A common species on white poplars, at Blackheath, in the be- 

 ginning of July. 



Family 13— CAPSID^E. 



Genus 1. — Neocoris.* 

 Short, suboval. 



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

 eyes as long ; Crown slightly convex, almost level with the upper 

 margin of the eyes ; CJy2)eus slightly convex, very much deflected ; 

 base a little in front of the eyes ; apex projecting a little beyond, 

 and in a line with the middle of the eyes ; antenniferous processes 

 short, in a line with the middle of the lower half of the eyes ; Face 

 pointed, central lobe longish, convex, prominent ; side lobes short, 

 stout, rounded outwardly. Antennee shorter than the body ; 1st 

 joint shorter than the head, clavate ; 2nd, 3 times the length of the 

 1st, slightly thickened to the apex ; 3rd and -Ifch filiform, 3rd f rds 

 the length of the 2nd, 4th about i as long as the 3rd. JE^es very 

 large, prominent ; viewed from above almost spherical, from the 

 side, short oval. Hostrtun reaching to the 3rd pair of coxae ; 

 Ist joint stout, reaching to the middle of the xyphus of the pro- 

 sternum. 



Thorax. — Pronotum short, trapeziform, almost twice as broad across 

 the posterior margin as long, with 2 callosities in front ; anterior 

 margin straight, angles rounded ; sides straight ; hinder angles 

 acute ; posterior margin almost straight ; disk flattish convex, 

 slightly deflected to the head. ScufeUum triangular ; almost equi- 

 lateral, level with the clavus, with a transverse channel near the 



* ^tof, uew, KOfjig, a bug. 



