300 CAPSINA. 



rounded ; Mesosternum long, sides flattish, convex above, and with 

 a deep central channel ; posterior margin rounded, indented in 

 the middle ; Metasternum in the centre almost semicircular, margin 

 somewhat keeled. Legs long, stout ; tarsi short ; 3rd joint of the 

 3rd pair longer than the 2nd ; 1st half as long as the 2nd. 



Species 1. MIRIDIUS QUADRIVIRGATUS. 



Minis 4-viRGATUS, Costct, Cent. (1852). 



MIRIDIUS QUADRIVIRGATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 258 (1861). 



Yellowish, or yellowish -white, clothed with short, fine, golden-yellow 

 hairs. 



Head ; Crown with a brownish, or brownish-pink streak on each 

 side the centre, extending over its entire length ; occasionally the 

 base of the antenniferous processes, a short streak on the middle of 

 the central lobe, and another under each eye, going to the base, 

 brownish, or brownish-pink. Antennce yellowish ; 1st joint frequently 

 brownish, with longitudinal rows of brownish or pink spots, more or 

 less confluent, and somewhat thickly clothed with almost erect, 

 stoutish, yellow or brown hairs ; beyond the base gently curved on 

 the inside for about ird its length, then parallel to the apex ; 2nd 

 and 3rd pale brownish; apex of the 3rd narrowly, and the 4th 

 entirely pale piceous. Rostrum piceous ; 1st joint and base of the 

 2nd yellow. 



Thorax. Pronotwn in front with a transverse channel forming 

 a somewhat raised collar ; a little behind this is a second channel, 

 to which the disk is deflected ; the space between the 2 channels 

 somewhat deeply and transversely wrinkled; on each side the centre, 

 and in a line with those on the head, is a brownish or brownish-pink 

 streak, carried over the entire disk ; sides with a brownish or brownish- 

 pink streak widening or dividing in two as it reaches the posterior 

 margin ; disk thickly and finely punctured. Scutellum with a 

 brownish, or brownish-pink line on each side the centre. Elytra : 

 Clavus ; inner margin, suture, and a streak on the inside of the nerve 

 brownish or brownish-pink ; Corium ; anterior margin pale through- 

 out its entire length ; 1st nerve pale yellowish-white ; towards the 

 apex the colouring spreads on either side into along, narrow triangle, 



