284 CAP SIN A. 



Thorax. Pronotum short, the length equal to the width across 

 the posterior margin ; anterior margin concave ; sides almost straight 

 to before the hinder angles, then gently rounded; the latter slightly 

 raised ; posterior margin nearly straight ; disk convex posteriorly, 

 finely punctured, the anterior margin of the flat callosities channelled ; 

 central keel pale-yellowish ; a more or less broad black or piceous 

 streak extends across the disk in a line with each eye, and frequently 

 the callosities are entirely black or piceous. Scutellum finely punc- 

 tured ; central keel pale-yellowish, generally margined with piceous, 

 basal angles piceous. Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin narrowly 

 piceous, and with a more or less distinct piceous streak on each side 

 the pale nerve ; Corium ; anterior margin broadly pale-yellowish ; 

 from the centre of the disk a piceous streak extends through the 

 nerve of the inner cell to the apex of the anterior margin of the 

 membrane, generally interrupted as it crosses the posterior margin 

 of the corium ; Membrane gray, somewhat abbreviated, with a short 

 piceous streak on the anterior margin opposite the cuneus; Cell- 

 nerves reddish or yellowish; inner cell sometimes wanting. Legs 

 yellowish, brownish-yellow or green, clothed with short hairs, espe- 

 cially on the tibiae ; tMglis of nearly equal thickness ; 3rd pair with 

 2 rows of brownish or blackish spots on the upperside and 1 

 row on the underside, occasionally the spots are more or less con- 

 fluent; tibiae straight; tarsi; 1st joint longest, apex of the 3rd and 

 claws piceous. 



Length, 3 3| lines. 



Apparently a scarce species. Taken in lieadly Lane in Sep- 

 tember. "We have also received it from Mr. GK E.. Crotch, but 

 without date or locality. 



Species 2. MIRIS L^EVIGATUS. 



CIMEX L^VIGATUS, Lin. S. N. 730, 101 (1767); De G. Mem. iii, 192, 30 



(1780). 

 MIRIS Fab. S. R. 253, 2 (1803) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. i. 130, 4 



(1829); Burn. Handb. ii, 265, 1 (1835); H. Schf. 



Wanz. iii, 1-3, fig. 259 (1836) ; Am. et Serv. Hem. 



277, 1 (1843); Meyer Mr, Caps. 35, 3 (1843); 



Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 98, 70 (1845) ; Schitt. Arb. mid 



Verand. 52 (1845); Kirschb. Caps. 33, 5 (1855); 



Flor, Rbyn. Liv. i, 425, 3, & ii, 608 (1860) ; Fieb. 



Europ. Hem. 240, 1 (1861). 

 VIRENS, Eahn, Wanz. ii, 79, fig. 165 (1835). 



