IG [June, 
longitudinal black streak, and by another finer one on the basal 
half close to the edge of the anterior marginal channel, to which 
latter only a few of the transverse black markings extend ; anterior 
marginal channel clear pale yellow, its inner margin with a black 
line, at the end of the embolium an indistinct dusky spot, and a 
larger and darker one towards the apex ; line of the membrane- 
suture indistinctly yellow ; Memhrane glossy, with somewhat broad, 
confused, hieroglyphic markings, more regular, straight, and trans- 
verse on the inner margin, the rest of the margins broadly black. 
Sternum black, side lobes pale yellow. Legs pale yellow ; 1st pair 
short, curved, in the ^ much swollen on the upper side ; palce, in 
the ^ short, broad-cultrate, rounded above but oblique at the 
base, on the under-side a little sub-angularly widened at the base ; 
in the 5 roundly-cultrate, narrow, regular ; 2nd pair, tibice indis- 
tinctly brownish at the apex ; 3rd pair, cilia of the tarsi black. 
Abdomen — beneath, dusky yellow ; in the $ the first three or four 
segments, in the $ the first two, except on the sides, black ; 
genital segments black at the sides. 
Length 2^ — 2| lines. 
A few examples taken by Dr. Power in Parkhurst Forest in July, 
and at Ditchingham, Norfolk, in August. 
This species comes next to C. semistriata, which it much resembles 
in many respects. 
[We observe in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for November 
that Mr. E. Parfitt has described an insect under the name of Capsus 
miniatus as new to science, and, as he says, returned to him by us as 
such. We certainly did examine it, and expressed an opinion that it 
might be extra-European from its having been found in the Nurseries 
of the Messrs. Veitch, at Exeter, but beyond this we said nothing. 
Had it remained with us a little longer it would have been forwarded 
to Dr. Fieber along with other insects we were aboiit to send, in order 
that he might, if possible, identify it. Capsus miniatus, although 
belonging to the Section Capsina, is not a Capsus, but stands near to, 
if not identical with, the Genus Dioncus of Fieber, Europ. Hemip- 
tera 268.] 
[It having been pointed out that the name Sphyracephalus has been 
previously used in a Genus of Dipterous insects, we propose to substi- 
tute for it that of Sphyrops.'] 
