446 CAPSINA. 



pair of coxae ; 1st joint stout, reaching to the middle of the xyphus 

 of the prosternum. 



Thorax. — Pronotmn short, trapeziform, l^ times as broad on the 

 posterior margin as long, with a collar in front ; anterior margin 

 straight, angles acute; sides convex ; hinder angles short, rounded; 

 posterior margins convex, slightly indented in the middle ; disk very 

 convex, deflected to the head. Scutellum convex, triangular, almost 

 equilateral, raised above the clavus, with a transverse channel near 

 the base, the basal portion concealed beneath the posterior 

 margin of the pronotum. Elytra horizontal as far as the junction 

 with the cuneus and membrane, which are very much deflected; 

 Clavus flattish, deflected to the corium ; Corium convex, flattened at 

 the base between the claval suture and the 1st nerve ; Cuneus short, 

 triangular, the base about as long as the anterior margin, the latter 

 convex. Sternum : Prordernum ; xyphus triangular ; Mesosternvm 

 short, broad, compressed into a triangle in front, with a broad 

 channel posteriorly. Legs somewhat short and stout; tarsi; 2nd 

 and 3rd joints of almost equal length. 



Species 1. — Chauagochilus Gyllenhalii. 



PuYTOCOKis Gyllenhalii, Fall. Mon. Cim. 83, 61 (1S07) ; Hem. Suec. i, 

 97,40 (1829); Zdt. Ins. Lap. 275, 22(1839). 



Capsus — H.Schf. Norn. Eut. i, 52(1835); Wanz. iii, 



86, fig. 310 (1835); Mei/er, Caps. 61, 28 

 (1813) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 116, 57 (1848) ; 

 Kirschb. Caps. 69, 75, & 114 (1855). 



Charagochilus Gyllenhali, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 271 (1861). 



Black, thickly and deeply punctured throughout, densely clothed 

 with short, depressed, golden-yellow hairs, somewhat disposed 

 in small, irregular patches upon the elytra. 



Head. — Antennee yellowish ; 1st joint at the base, 2nd at the apex, 

 apical half of the 3rd and 4th entirely brown. Bostrum pitchy 

 black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; posterior margin narrowly ferruginous red. 

 Scutellum ; apex ferruginous red. Elytra : Corium ; anterior margin 

 brownish-red, base within the 1st nerve with a short reddish streak ; 

 apex of the 1st nerve with a small yellowish-white spot ; pos- 

 terior margin reddish ; Cuneus brownish-red, darkest in the middle 



