THE FOUR-LIN Rl) LRAF-BUG : ITS DKSCllIPTION. 273 



was given,* and as there are many who may not have convenient ac- 

 cess to the volume, it is herewitli reproduced : — 



" This bug is of an oval form, more than twice as long as wide, flat- 

 tened, moderately convex both on the back and on the under side, with 

 the surface on the upper side smooth and shining 

 and destitute of any hairiness. . 



Tlie head is small, more broad than the an- 

 terior end of the thorax, but scarcely half as wide 

 as its broadest part, four times as broad as long. 

 Viewed in front it is triangular. In the male it 

 is orange-red, in the female orange-yellow. The 

 nose is represented by an elevated oblong black 

 FiG78.-Thefour-]inedieaf-sp t to the lower end of which the beak or 



bugP(ECILOCAPSUSLINEATUS, >■ ' 



three times the uatuiai size, truuk is joined. This reaches slightly beyond 

 the base of the first pair of legs. It is tapering, four-jointed, orange- 

 yellow, the first joint black in front, the second joint black on the sides, 

 and the last half of the fourth joint black. The eyes occupy the outer 

 corners of the head, and are smallish, protuberant, oval, and blackish- 

 brown. The antennfe almost equal the body in length. They are 

 slender, tapering, bearded with fine, short, inclined hairs, black, with 

 their basal part pale yellow. They are four-jointed, the first joint 

 thickest and slightly longer than the width of the head, thicker toward 

 its tip, its surface glossy and uneven ; second joint more slender than 

 the first and double its length, scarcely thicker in and beyond its mid- 

 dle than toward its base; third and fourth joints quite slender and 

 thread-like, the third rather longer than the first, the fourth but half 

 the length of the third. 



" The thorax is more broad than long, its sides straight and strongly 

 converging, its base twice as broad as its apex, the basal edge straight 

 in the middle and curving forward on each side with the outer corners 

 bluntly rounded ; the apex margined by a roundly elevated line of a 

 lemon-yellow color, the surface convex and inclining obliquely down- 

 ward and forward. Across its anterior third it is roundly elevated, 

 smooth and polished, and of the same color as the head, this elevation 

 having on its anterior face n6ar its middle two shallow punctures, and 

 commonly a similar puncture on each shoulder ; and in (he middle of 

 its hind edge is a slight depression in which two shallow punctures 

 close together may usually be seen. The remainder of the surface is 

 minutely punctured and lemon-yellow, with four black stripes, which 

 are larger in the males, the middle ones often as broad as long, more 

 broad than the space between them, widening backward and almost 

 twice as broad at their hind as at their fore ends, with their hind ends 



* Trans. X Y. St. Agricul. Soc. for 1869, xxix, 1870, pp. 517, 518. 



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