424 CAPSINA. 



base ; sides slightly convex ; disk flattish. Elytra a little longer 

 tlian tlie abdomen ; Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Corium 

 horizontal, flattish convex ; cuneus and membrane slightly deflected ; 

 Cuneus longish, triangular, broad at the base. Sternum ; Pro- 

 sternum ; xyphus triangular, convex ; Mesosternum convex in front, 

 compressed into a small triangle, with a short oblique channel on 

 each side ; posterior margin almost straight, faintly notched in the 

 middle ; Metasternum slightly convex ; centre prominent and an- 

 gular. Legs ; thighs somewhat stout ; 3rd pair flattened on the 

 sides ; tarsi ; 2nd and 3rd joints of the 3rd pair almost of equal 

 length. 



S^jecies 1. — Neocoris Bohemanni. 



Phytocokis Bohemanni, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 106, 58 (1829); Zett. Ins. 

 Lap. 276, 28 (1839). 

 — KUFicoLLis, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 107, 60 (1829). 



Capsus fubgaius, H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 79, figs. 408 and 409 (1839); 

 Mej/er, Caps. 70, 41 (1843); Kirschb. Caps. 95, 

 134 (1855). 

 — (Capsus) Bohemanni, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 625, 99 (1860). 

 Plagiognathtjs — Fleb. Europ. Hem. 303, 5 (1861). 



Black or brown, shining, clothed with very short, yellow hairs. 



Head. — Crown ; hinder margin generally, and a streak along the 

 inside of each eye, whitish or reddish-white. Antenn(S ; 1st and 2ud 

 joints black, apex of the 1st narrowly white ; 3rd and 4th blackish 

 or brownish. Rostrum brownish ; 1st and 4th joints piceous 



Thorax. — Pronotum very finely wrinkled transversely, and with a 

 small fovea on each side of the centre, between the callosities ; disk 

 frequently with a pale yellow or reddish-yellow central line. Scii- 

 tellum ; basal angles red; basal portion flattish, somewliat de- 

 pressed in the middle, almost in the same plane with the hinder 

 portion ; the latter very finely wrinkled transversely, sometimes 

 with a reddish or whitish central line. Elytra : Clavus ; inner 

 margin narrowly black ; suture at the base, as far as in a line with 

 the scutellar angle, pale ; disk black or pitchy brown, rather 

 coarsely wrinkled transversely ; Corium black or pitchy brown, very 

 thickly and minutely punctured ; at the base a large triangular pale 

 patch, continued into a narrow streak for some distance along the 

 claval suture and the outside of the 1st nerve ; extreme base some- 



