450 CAPSINA. 



Species 1. — Liocoms tripustulatus. 



Lyg^us tripustulatus, Fab.'E. S. iv, 176, 145 (1797)'; S. R. 239, 182(1803). 

 Phytocoris — Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 90, 38 (1829); Hahn, 



Wanz. i, 215, fig. Ill (1832) ; Burm. Handb. 

 ii, 273, 25 (1835); Zett. Ins. Lap. 275, 

 21 (1839); Koleti. Mel. Ent. ii, 120, 101 

 (1845). 

 — PASTINAC^, Hahn, Wanz. i, 213, fig. 110 (1832). 

 Capsus TRIPUSTULATUS, H. ScJif. Nom. Ent. i, 52 (1835) ; Meyer, Caps. 

 106, 96 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Ten. 113, 

 49 (1848); Kirschb. Caps. 64, 65, & 1],2 

 (1855). 

 Capsus (Capsus) tripustulatus, Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 515, 27 (1860). 

 LiocoRis tripustulatus, Fieb. Enrop. Hem. 270 (1861). 



Oval. Black or brown, witli yellow or orange-yellow markings. 



Head. — Grown yellow, or orange-yellow ; sometimes with a trans- 

 verse black streak between tbe eyes ; Clypeus generally with a short 

 black or brown streak on each side of the centre; Face; central, and side 

 lobes black or brown. Antennce yellowish, or orange-yellow ; 1st joint 

 at the apex narrowly black, and on the underside generally with a black 

 streak ; 2nd more or less broadly brown at the base and apex ; 3rd 

 and 4th brownish, sometimes the base of the 3rd narrowly yellowish. 

 nostrum brownish yellow, tip black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum yellow, or orange-yellow, finely but remotely 

 punctured, the outer margin of the callosities and the hinder angles 

 with a black spot ; the posterior portion of the disk more or less 

 broadly black or brown, generally divided by a yellowish, longi- 

 tudinal, central line ; posterior margin yellow, or orange-yellow. 

 Scutellum yellow, greenish, or orange-yellow ; in the middle next the 

 transverse channel, a short, bifurcate black or brown patch. Elytra 

 very finely punctured ; Clavus black or brown, the apex more or less 

 broadly yellow, or orange-yellow; sometimes the disk is pale- 

 brownish, with a deeper shade in the middle, opposite to the scutel- 

 lar angle ; extreme apex black or brown ; Corium black or brown, 

 the base, and a broad band beyond the middle, yellow, or orange- 

 yellow ; sometimes the disk is pale brownish-green, or yellow, with 

 an irregular brown band at the apex ; or in black or brown examples, 

 the band beyond the middle is substituted by a yellow or orange 



