BRYOCORlDvE. 277 



Species 1. BRYOCORIS PTERIDIS. 



CAPSUS PTEUIDIS, Fall. Mon. Cim. 105, 20 (1807); Germ. Faun. Ins. 

 Eur. fasc. 10, 1. 13 (1813) ; Meyer D&r, Caps. 114, 109 

 (1843); Kirschb. Caps. 76, 70 (1855). 



BRYOCOKIS - Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 152, 1 (1829) ; Zett. lus. Lap. 266 

 1 (1840) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 124, 2 (1848) ; Kolen 

 Mel. Ent, ii, 129, 116 (1857); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 

 238 (1861). 



HALTICUS Burm. Handb. ii, 278, 6 (1835). 



CAPSUS PULCHEK, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 93, 4 (1848). 



PTEBJDIS, Flor, Rbyn. Liv. i, 540, 40 (1860). 



Developed form. (Capsus pulcher, Sahib.) 



Black, somewhat shining, thickly clothed with fine, depressed, golden 

 hairs. 



Head ; Crown with a narrow, pale-yellowish streak along the in- 

 side of each eye. Antenna; 1st and 2nd joints pale yellowish, apex 

 of the latter broadly black ; 3rd and 4th black, base of the 3rd 

 brownish-yellow. Eyes black. Rostrum yellowish ; tip piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum deeply wrinkled transversely. Scutellum 

 wrinkled transversely. Elytra; Clavus black; Corium pale yellowish ; 

 the anterior margin interiorly, a patch at its junction with the 

 cuneus and the 1st nerve pitchy-black ; Guneus pale yellowish ; the 

 interior margin brown ; apex narrowly piceous ; Membrane brown ; 

 below the apex of the cuiieus a pale, triangular patch, and below 

 the apex of the cell another pale patch extending to, and somewhat 

 widened as it approaches the apex; cell- nerve brown. Sternum 

 black. Legs pale yellow ; tarsi pale yellow, 3rd joint blackish ; claws 

 brownish-yellow. 



Length, 1J- line. 



Undeveloped form. Pale yellowish, thickly clothed with fine, 

 depressed, golden yellow hairs. 



Head, in the <$ , piceous ; Crown with a narrow, pale yellowish 

 streak along the inside of each eye; in the $ the head is pale 

 yellowish ; Crown with a round piceous spot ; Face ; base of the 

 central lobe piceous. Antenna ; 1st and 2nd joints pale yellowish, 

 apex of 4he latter pitchy- black, broader in the $ than the $ ; 3rd 

 and 4th pitchy-black, base of the 3rd brownish-yellow. Eyes and 

 Rostrum as in the developed form. 



