I 



Provisional Description 



(with a ligurc) 



of a supposed new genus and species of the family Capsidœ 

 (Div. Laboparia Reut.?). 



By 



A. C. Jensen-Haarup. 



Silkeborç;, Denmark. 



Genus Balticola n. gen. 



Ç: Habitually like females of the genera Orthocephalus 

 FlEB. and P achy to me 11a Reut., but remarkably differing 

 by the want of aroliœ (according to O. 

 M. Reuter and B. Poppius i litt.). Body 

 and extremities with fine, adpressed, sil- 

 very gre\' pubesccns; surface (in the spe- 

 cies rather dull) moreover with semierect, 

 stift" hairs, and also with scattered, scale 

 like, adpressed, golden hairs on elj'tra and 

 hindermost part of thorax etc. Eyes pro- 

 jecting, semigiobular, touching thorax. An- 

 tenn re comparatively short; ist and 2nd 

 joints equally thickened, 3rd and 4th joints 

 thin and slender. Hind femora much thick- 



., ,^„, ened; hind tibiae long and slender, with about 



a. Upper side (and ' » 



extremities) of 9; 5 spines in each external row. Body small. 



b. Apex of abdomen ^ Vnowxx (most probably full- 



(with genitalia) of sa- O . 



me, seen from below, winged, much prolonged and habituall}- 

 quite unlike the female). 

 Balticola Wahlgiml n. sp. Ç: Apterous; brachypterous; 

 membrane wanting. Oblong oval (see figure). Colour dull 



