British Hemiptera-Hetero ptera. 271 
punctured and wrinkled, with two small round black 
spots in front. Elytra sometimes with one or two obscure 
brownish longitudinal lines near the apex; cuneus pale; 
membrane black, the nerves pale; antennz green, darker 
towards the apex. 
Length 34 lines. 
Very common by sweeping, &c. 
RHOPALOTOMUS. 
1. ater, Linn. Fig. Doug. & Scott, Brit. Hem. pl. xiv. 
fie. 7. 
Entirely black, or black with red legs, or with the 
thorax, and head at the base, also red. Thorax punc- 
tured, and transversely rugose posteriorly. Elytra covered 
with very fine depressed greyish hairs. Membrane dusky 
black. Antenne: second joint club-shaped, densely 
pubescent. 
Length 3 lines. 
Common by sweeping, &c. among nettles. 
CAPSsus. 
1. Cuneus red, with apex black.. Be ac - laniarius. 
2. Entire insect black, with the scutellum sometimes red .. sceutellaris. 
1. laniarius, Linn. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 
pl. xiv. fig. 8. 
= capillaris, Dougl. & Scott, &c. 
Black or reddish-ochreous, deeply punctured; the 
cuneus, with the exception of the black apex and interior 
basal angle, always red; in the black variety the corium is 
sometimes pale at the base, and the thorax round its mar- 
gins. Legs with the thighs black at the base, reddish at 
the apex; tibize red, hind pair with a dark-brown line 
exteriorly near the base. Antenne black, third and fourth 
joints paler, and sometimes the middle of second. 
Length 3—4 lines. 
Common by sweeping in summer. 
2. scutellaris, Fab. 
Entirely black, or with the scutellum bright red, very 
deeply and somewhat rugosely punctured. Scutellum 
shining and impunctate. 
Length 23 lines. 
Very rare; by beating and sweeping. Dartford, Rei- 
