316 CAPSINA. 



Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Coriitm ; anterior sides 

 margined, sometimes reflexed ; disk flat or slightly convex, horizontal 

 as far as the junction with the cuneus and membrane, which are 

 more or less deflected; Cuneus more or less long, triangular. Sternum : 

 prosternum ; xyphus triangular, concave, with an acute margin ; 

 Mesosternum convex, posterior margin notched in the middle ; Metct- 

 sternum convex, central angles prominent. Legs long, somewhat 

 slender ; 1st pair generally shorter than the 2nd, 3rd longest ; 

 thigh* of the 3rd pair thickened, frequently flattened on the sides ; 

 tibicB of the 3rd pair slightly bent ; tarsi short, sometimes stout ; 

 the joints of nearly equal length, or the basal joint shortest. 



Species 1. DER^OCORTS FULVOMACULATUS. 



CIMEX FULVOMACULATUS, De Cr. Mem. iii, 294, 33 (1773). 



PHYTOCORIS Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 88, 24 (1829) ; Zelt. Ins. 



Lap. 273, 10 (1839) ; Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 



109, 84 (1845). 

 CAPSUS H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 50, fig. 267, & 81, fig. 362 



(1836); Meyer, Caps. 96, 84 (1843); Sahib. 



Geoc. Fen. 109, 40 (1848). 



(DEIUEOCORIS) FULVOMACULATUS, Kirschb. Caps. 49, 36 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) Flor, Rhyn.Liv. i, 505, 21 (1860). 

 CALOCOUIS FULVOMACULATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 253, 5 (1861). 



elongate, narrow, slightly oval ; $ elongate, oval, slightly indented 

 in the middle of the anterior margin of the elytra. Brownish, or 

 yellowish-brown ; thickly clothed with fine golden-yellow hairs. 

 Antennae somewhat filiform; 2nd joint slightly thickest at theapex. 



Head black; Crown with a very short channel between the 

 eyes ; a more or less large spot on the inside of each eye, and the 

 base frequently yellowish ; Face vertical ; central lobe black or 

 brown, longish, convex, somewhat narrow ; side lobes black, short, 

 stoutish ; sides of the face yellowish. Antennce yellowish or brownish- 

 yellow ; 1st and 2nd joints clothed with fine, very short black hairs ; 

 base and apex of the 1st joint narrowly, and apex of the 2nd 

 broadly, black ; 3rd and 4th black or pitchy-black ; base of the 3rd 

 pale yellow. Rostrum yellowish, reaching to the 3rd pair of coxae ; 

 tip black. 



