CAPSINA. 



white on the upper side, marbled with brown-red, and sparingly 

 covered with long, stout, black hairs ; extreme base red, apex 

 dusky ; 2nd and 3rd joints pale brownish-yellow ; base of the 2nd 

 pale yellowish, apex perceptibly thickened ; 4th piceous. Rostrum ; 

 basal joint red, 2nd, 3rd and 4th yellowish, apical half of the latter 

 piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides slightly concave ; behind the collar are 

 two callosities, joined in front by a narrow transverse keel ; posterior 

 margin narrowly reddish-yellow, with a short depression at the 

 hinder angles ; disk with a transverse, broad, pitchy -black or black 

 streak next the posterior margin. Scutellum frequently with a 

 piceous spot on each side the apex. Elytra of the $ longer than 

 the abdomen ; davits generally darker than the corium ; the ex- 

 treme apex black ; the nerve pink or brownish-pink, with 4 or 5 

 pale reddish-yellow spots, at irregular intervals, down its length ; 

 Corium; anterior margin reddish yellow, more or less thickly and 

 irregularly spotted with brown or brown-pink ; at its junction with 

 the cuneus brown ; disk reddish-yellow, with irregular patches of 

 brown or brown-pink, more or less confluent, sometimes terminating 

 (especially in the $ ) in a short, oblique, dark-brown line across 

 from the 1st nerve down to the basal angle of the membrane ; 

 Cuneus red or brown pink, darkest at the apex, broadly pale at the 

 base next the outer angle, and with a dark-brown spot at the inner 

 basal angle ; Membrane blackish, the inner margin as far as in a 

 line with the tip of the cuneus pitchy black ; on the anterior margin 

 are 2 short, curved, grayish-white streaks, the upper end at the tip 

 of the cuneus ; the outer cell, and the space below it to the apex, 

 thickly spotted with grayish-white, more or less confluent, and run 

 into little irregular streaks; cell-nerves red. Legs; thighs of the 

 1st and 2nd pairs reddish or brownish-yellow, or yellowish towards 

 the apex, with pale brown spots more or less confluent ; hinder 

 pair brown or dark brown-red for frds their length from the apex ; 

 thickly spotted on both sides with yellowish white, and always 

 with one irregular band of the same colour a little way from the 

 apex ; base yellowish ; extreme apex yellowish-white ; tibia pale 

 yellowish-white ; 1st pair with 2 rings and the apex broadly brown ; 

 2nd pair with a very narrow ring at the base below the knee ; apex 

 narrowly brown; hinder pair at the base broadly dark brown, 

 spotted with yellowish-white ; the knee on either side pale, extreme 

 apex often brown ; all the tibia3 with somewhat distant small brown 

 or blackish spots, in each of which is a stout, longish, black or brown 



