286 



CAPSINA. 



widely distributed from June to October. It is to be met with by 

 searching and sweeping amongst herbage and grass. It has occurred 

 at New Forest, Folkestone, Lee, Bexley and Scarborough. 



Species 3. Minis CALCARATUS. 



MIRIS CALCARATUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 131, 5 (1829) ; Burm. Handb. ii, 

 265, V 2 (1835) ; //. Schf. Wanz. iii, 39 (1836) ; 

 Zett. Ins. Lap. 280, 3 (1840); Am. et Serv. 278, 2 

 (1843); Meyer Dur, Caps. 34, 1 (1843); Schill. 

 Arb. und Verand. 52 (1845) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 86, 

 1 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 33, 4 (1855) ; Flor, 

 Rhyn. Liv. i, 421, 1 (1860). 

 DENTATA, Hahn, Wanz. i, 15, fig. 8 (1831). 



BRACHYTROPIS CALCARATA, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 241 (1861). 



Greenish or brownish-yellow, sometimes with a very pale rosy tinge. 

 Pronotum ; sides narrowly margined / thighs ; 3rd pair toothed 

 underneath. 



Head finely punctured, and clothed with short hairs, especially in 

 front ; Crown with a central channel extending to the apex of the 

 clypeus, deepest between the eyes ; sometimes the channel and a 

 line along the inner margin of each eye pitchy-brown. Antennce in 

 the $ shorter than in the ? ; brownish, or green ; in the latter 

 case the 3rd and 4th joints are frequently reddish ; 1st and 2nd 

 thickly clothed with longish, somewhat depressed, yellowish hairs ; 

 2nd thinnest at its apex ; 3rd and 4th somewhat filiform. Rostrum 

 brownish-yellow, reaching to the 2nd pair of COXSB ; tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum thickly and finely punctured, crenate in front ; 

 sides narrowly margined, and with a deep fovea a little behind the 

 anterior angles ; central keel very flat, and with the side margins 

 pale yellowish ; disk with a more or less distinct pitchy streak in a 

 line with each eye ; hinder angles somewhat raised and widened. 

 Scutellum finely punctured, the anterior portion almost concealed 

 beneath the posterior margin of the pronotum ; in brown examples 

 the sides and central keel are pale. Elytra; Clavus, inner margin 

 frequently, narrowly rosy ; Corium very finely punctured, and 

 clothed with extremely short, depressed yellow hairs ; anterior 

 margin broadly, and nerves, pale yellowish ; disk between the 1st 



