443 CAPSINA. 



Species 1. — Capsus capillaris. 



CiMEX CAPiLLAUis, Fab. Mantiss. ii, 305, 270 (1787). 



— TRICOLOR, Fab. Mantiss. ii, 306, 272 (1787). 

 Lyg^us capillaris, Fab. E. S. iv, 180, 161 (1794). 



— DANicus. Fab. E. S. iv, 181, 165 (1794); Fb//, Ic. Cim. 34, 



t. 4, fig. 34 (1800). 



— TRICOLOR, Fab. E. S. iv, 181, 167 (1794) ; Wolff, Ic. Cim. 35, 



t. 4, fig. 35, a—b (1800). 

 Phytocoris DANICUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 109, 64 (1829). 

 Capsus capillaris, Burm. Handb. ii, 274, 2 (1835) ; Am. et Sen. Hem. 



281, 3 (1843) J Fieb. Europ. Hem. 264, 10 



(1861). 



— tricolor, E. Schf. Nom. Ent. i, 51 (1835) ; Meyer., Caps. 108, 



98 (1843) ; Kirschb. Caps. 52, 41 (1855). 



— (Capsus) tricolor, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i. 509, 23 (I860). 



Varies in colour from black to reddisli or orange-yellow. Not 

 clothed with hairs. Cuneus red, apex broadly black or 

 brown. 



Head black or red ; Croion and Glypeus in the latter case frequently 

 with a brown or brownish-red central streak ; Face ; central lobe 

 black. Antennce ; 1st and 2nd joints black, clothed with fine 

 black hairs; 2ud in the middle, generally broadly yellowish ; 3rd and 

 4th yellowish. Bostrum brown ; tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronofnm black, reddish or orange-yellow ; disk, except 

 the callosities, thickly and deeply punctured ; in reddish or orange- 

 yellow examples the punctures and the posterior margin across the 

 scutellum, black. Scutellum deeply punctured, black, red, or orange- 

 yellow ; or the basal half of the hinder portion black ; apex brownish- 

 red. Elytra thickly and deeply punctured, in reddish or orange- 

 yellow examples the punctures black ; Claviis black, reddish, or 

 orange-yellow ; in the latter case the inner margin narrowly black ; 

 Corium black, reddish, or orange-yellow ; in the former case the disk 

 more or less suffused with brownish-red, especially the basal half; 

 Cuneus red, apex broadly black or brown, sometimes the base nar- 

 rowly yellowish ; Membrane blackish ; below the apex of the cuneus 

 a large yellowish-white patch ; cell-nerves brown ; cells yellowish- 

 white. Legs; tliighs black or brown, apical third yellowish; tibiae 

 yellow, below the ba.^e frequently with a broad brownish band, and a 



