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together longer than the second; pronotum convex, trape- 
zitorm, shining, largely and remotely punctured, black, with 
the dorsal line, widening in front, pale yellow, varying to 
entirely testaceous with the hind angles black; scutellum 
yellow, its base sometimes with a black spot ; elytra finely 
punctured, black, with the extreme base, a central lateral 
band and a band across the cuneus pale yellow, varying 
to ochreous, with an apical band across the corium and the 
apex of the cuneus brown, membrane dusky with two clear 
pale spots in a transverse line ; femora pale, with two dark 
subapical rings; tibiae with the base, apex and a narrow 
ring below the base, brown or black ; beneath black or pale, 
orifice of sac much as in Camptobrochis. 
L. 5 mm. 
Very common, and generally distributed; occurs on 
nettles. 
CAPSUS, Fab. 
A genus of well-marked, mostly highly coloured species. 
Head without any carina or rounded margin posteriorly, 
eyes very prominent, their entire width projecting beyond 
the lateral margin of the pronotum, antenne with the 
second joint finely pilose, more or less thickened at the 
apex, especially in the 9, third and fourth joints much 
thinner than the second, and together much shorter than 
it; pronotum very narrow in front and wide behind, 
anterior collar very thin and raised; elytra and pronotum 
very strongly punctured ; posterior femora slender, spines 
of the tibiz very short, hardly noticeable ; orifice of sac 
large, with foliaceous plates. 
We have two British species of the eleven recorded as 
Palearctic by Puton. 
C. laniarius, Linn.—Rather short oval, shining, glab- 
rous, very strongly and rugosely punctured, ¢ and 9 
similar in outline. Head and pronotum black, varying 
to ferruginous yellow; antenne black, or with the centro 
