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EaMILT 6. — LlTOSOMID^. 



'Genus 1. — Litosoma, Doug. & Scott. 

 Species 13. — Litosoma bicoloe, Doug. & Scott, pi. 2, fig. 3. 

 Elongate, narrow. Green, somewhat thickly clothed with fine, 

 short, depressed, whitish hairs, intermixed with longish erect black ones. 



Head — Crown generally brownish or fuscous. Antennm, 1st and 2ncl joints grcenisli, 

 apex of the latter brown ; 3rd and 4tli fuscous. Rostrum greenish, apex 

 piceous. 



Thorax — Pronotum brownish or fuscous, lateral margins green. Scutellum convex, 

 raised above the clavus, brownish or fuscous. Elytra — Clavus brownish 

 or fuscous. Corium green ; next the claval suture sometimes very narrowly, 

 and between the apex of the clavus and the inner posterior angle, brownish or 

 fuscous. Cuneus green, of the same colour as the corium. Membrane 

 blackish, iridescent; large cell nerve blackish, lesser cell nerve yellowish. 

 Sternum — Mesosternum blackish, anterior and posterior margins and a central 

 line yellow. Legs greenish-yellow, clothed with fine whitish hairs. Thighs, 

 1st pair with a row of fine, erect, longish brown hairs. Tibice with long, erect, 

 somewhat spinose brown hairs ; apex brown. Tarsi, 1st and 2nd joints 

 brownish-yellow, 3rd and claws black. 



Abdomen underneath green, clothed with fine depressed whitish hairs. 



Length— <? 2, ? If lines. 



In the ? the head and pronotum are green, and the brownish or 

 fuscous markings on the scutellum and elytra never so decided as in 

 the c?. 



Not uncommon by beating furze bushes at Esher in August. The 

 males are exceedingly active. 



Eamilt 11. — Oncottlid^. 

 Genus 2. — Macbocoleus, Eieb. 

 Species 1*. — Maceocoleus solitaeius, Meyer, pi. 2, fig. 4. 

 Capsus solitaeitis, Meyer, Caps., 83, 62, t. 5, fig. 4 (1843). 

 Capsus SELADONicus, Kirschb., Caps., 80, 103 (1855). 

 Maceocoleus solitaeius, Fieh., Europ. Hem., 321, 8. 



Elongate, grey-greenish or grey-yellowish, clothed with stout erect 

 black hairs ; the nerves of the elytra naked, pale. 



Head elongate, pointed, greenish-yellow. Crown convex. Antcnnoi dingy green, 



clothed yrith short black hairs ; 2nd joint at the apex narrowly, and 3rd and 



4th, brownish. Rostrum brown, apex piceous. 

 Thorax — Pronotum greenish-yellow ; callosities not divided, their hinder margin 



cinarginate ; posterior margin at least three times as wide as the anterior ; 



disc convex. Scutellum, raised above the clavus, with a transverse channtd 



