240 LYG^INA. 



close to end of the central lobe, in the at a short distance before it. 

 Antenna yellowish-brown, end of the last joint mostly brown. Eyes 

 black or piceous. Rostrum yellow-brown, end piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum subtrapezoidal ; the foliaceous sides beginning 

 very narrow before the hinder angles, moderately and gradually 

 widened to the front, their margin deeply concave, as if cut out in 

 the middle, narrowly reflexed ; anterior angles broadly rounded ; 

 disk dusky ochreous, usually with 3 broad, longitudinal, brown 

 stripes ; the anterior raised portion pale-ochreous, its base with a 

 blackish, foveate spot on each side, its surface with 2 short keels 

 arising within the anterior margin, and ceasing before the highest 

 part of the posterior convexity ; the punctures anteriorly small and 

 confluent, posteriorly larger and distinct. Scutellum black, apex 

 raised, obtuse. Elytra ; Clavus and Corium mostly ochreous-gray, 

 finely reticulate-punctate ; Clavus with a brown spot in the middle, 

 apex piceous ; Corium with a large, clear, whitish space at the base, 

 between the nerves dusky gray spots more or less distinct ; Mem- 

 brane ; the basal reticulated portion coloured like the corium, the 

 remainder white ; nerves yellow-brown, with a black spot on the 

 base. Legs concolorous with the antennae ; Claws black. 



Length, 1 1^ line. 



Pound on the ground, among thistles, &c. ; Bickley, May ; Bright- 

 hampton, April (Stone). 



Species 3. ZOSMERUS CAPITATUS. 



ACANTHIA CAPITATA, Wolff. Ic. Cim. 131, 125, t. 13, fig. 125 (1804). 

 TINGIS Fall. Mon. Cim. 40, 12 (1807); Hem. Suec. 150, 



14 (1829); H. Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 59 (1835); 

 Zett. Ins, Lap. 269, 6 (1840). 

 PEBICULARIS, H, Schf. Norn. Ent. i, 59 (1835) ; Panz. F. G. 



100, 19. 



ZOSMEKUS CAPITATUS, Burm. Handb. ii, 262, 1 (1835). 

 TINGIS COLLAUIS, Zett. Ins. Lap. 269, 7 (1840). 

 PIESMA CAPITATA, Am. et Serv. Hem. 301, 1 (1843). 

 ZOSMENUS CAPITATUS, Fieb. Ent. Mou. 34, 4, t. 2, fig. 18 (1844) ; Sahib. 

 Geoc. Fen. 128, 1 (1848) ; H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 

 193, t. 318, fig. 983 (1850) ; Flor. Rhyn. Liv. i, 

 315, 2 (1860) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 117, 5 (1861). 

 ANTICUS, Fieb. Ent. Mon. 34, 5, t. 2, fig. 19 (1844) ; Sahib. 

 Geoc. Fen. 128, 2 (1848) ; Kolen. Mel. Ent. vi, 6, 

 205 (1857) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 117, 6 (1861). 



