318 CAPSINA. 



Species 2. DEE^OCORIS STRIATELLUS. 



LYG^US STRIATELLUS, Fab. S. 11. 236, 164 (1803) ; Panz. F. G. 93, 17 



(18011805). 



Minis Wolff, Ic. Cim. 156, t. 15, fig. 150, a, b (1801). 



PHYTOCORIS Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 84, 15 (1829) ; Halm, Wanz. 



ii, 133, fig. 218 (1833); Zett. Ins. Lap. 272, 8 



(1839) ; Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 113, 89 (1845). 

 CAPSUS Meyer, Caps. 94, 81 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 



105,30(1848). 



(DERJEOCOBIS) STRIATELLUS, Kirsehb. Caps. 56, 50 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 492, 14 (1860). 

 CALOCORIS STRIATELLUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 251, 1 (1861). 



Longish oval; yellow; clothed with very short, pale yellowish- 

 white hairs. Antennae somewhat filiform. 



Head with a black, piceous, or red-brown central streak, extending 

 from between the eyes to the apex of the clypeus, and a reddish or 

 reddish-brown streak on each side the central one, curving round, 

 and generally uniting immediately behind it ; antenuiferous pro- 

 cesses margined with black; Face vertical; central lobe convex ? 

 longish, somewhat stout ; base and a central streak piceous ; 

 side lobes short, somewhat stout, blackish at the base. Antenna 

 yellowish ; 3rd and 4th joints and the apex of the 2nd brownish 

 or piceous. Rostrum reaching to the 1st or 2nd abdominal segment ; 

 yellowish or reddish -yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the collar; hinder 

 angles very slightly raised ; posterior margin convex, almost straight 

 in the middle ; disk convex, very finely punctured, much deflected ; 

 posterior margin of the collar generally 2 spots behind each cal- 

 losity, and a posterior band (within the margin) broadly black ; 

 sometimes the spots are united, and the posterior band more or less 

 interrupted. Scutellum finely wrinkled transversely, black at the 

 base as far as the transverse channel. Elytra: Clavus ; inner 

 margin and a streak on each side the nerve black ; Corium ; anterior 

 margin and a streak on both sides of the 1st and 2nd nerves black ; 

 apex of the anterior margin, a triangular patch between the fur- 

 cation within the end of the 1st nerve, and the inner angle, black ; 

 Cunei's yellow ; apex black; anterior margin rounded. at the base. 



