(54 lAugust, 



Species 1. — Loxops cocciij'eus, Westerli. 

 Cci^jsus coccineus, Meyer, Caps., 75, 48, t. iv, fig. 5. 

 Loxops coccineus, Fieb., Euroj). Hem., 287. 



Clear oclireous-yellow, tliickly clotlied with white or very pale 

 yellow semi-depressed hairs. Eh/tra wnth numerous pale roundish 

 spots. Cuneus : apex broadly orauge-red. Memhrane : cell nerves red. 



Head pale oclireous-jellow. Antennm yellow, 1st joint red, clothed with erect black 

 hairs. Eyes red. Rostrum yellow, apex brown. 



Thorax : pronotum pale ochreous-yellow, lateral margins from in front to behind 

 the callosities broadly blackish, from thence to the posterior angles broadly 

 reddish and somewhat sparingly and coarsely brown-punctured, posterior margin 

 slightly concave across the base of the scutellum. Seutellum pale yellow, with 

 a somewhat indistinct darker streak on either side, extending downwards from 

 the faint transverse channel ; apex narrowly fuscous. Elytra clear ochreous- 

 yellow, thickly clothed with white or very pale yellow semi-depressed hairs. 

 Claims pale ochreous-yellow, with a few minute somewhat indistinct orange- 

 reddish punctures. Cerium inclined to orange-reddish, with several roundish 

 ochreous-yellow spots disposed somewhat symmetrically, the spots irregular in 

 in size ; anterior margin fuscous-black, the colour becoming somewhat wider 

 towards the apex, where it joins an irregidar, transverse, fuscous-black band, 

 having its upper margin in a line with the apex of the clavus : this band is 

 distinctly black-punctured. Cuneus pale yellow, base narrowly and somewhat 

 irregularly, and apex broadly, Orange-red. Membrane pale fuscous, iridescent, 

 cells pale ; cell nerves red, greater cell nerve exteriorly with a narrow faint 

 reddish margin. Sternum pale yellow. Legs yellow ; thighs — 3rd pair at the 

 apex reddish ; tibicB and tarsi yellow, apex of the 3rd joint of the latter black. 



Abdomen beneath, yellow. Length, 2 lines. 



The insect from which this description has been made is not so 

 bright in coloring as that described by Fieber, and much less so than that 

 of the figure given by Meyer in his ' Capsina.' This I attribute to the 

 capture of the creature shortly after its exit from the pupa state, and 

 before it had acquired the full richness of its attire. There is also a 

 V-shaped band extending across the clavus to the apex of the scutellum ; 

 but, on raising the elytra, I find that this is merely caused by the shining 

 through of a portion of the upper part of the body. 



A single specimen of this pretty species was taken at St. Albans 

 last year, by the Eev. T. A. Marshall (as he believes, by sweeping). It 

 seems to be exceedingly scarce on the continent, occurring singly, and, 

 according to a notice of its capture recorded in the Mittheil. der 

 Schweiz. Eut. Ges., vol. ii, p. 27, its time of appearance is about 

 the middle of July. 



As I cannot find any description by Westerhauser, I suppose 

 Meyer, who quotes him, must have received the insect from him with 

 the name in M.S. 



37, Manor Park, Lee, S.E. : July, 1873. 



