320 CAPSIXA. 



angles very slightly raised ; posterior margin convex, indented in the 

 middle ; disk convex, much deflected, very finely punctured 

 and wrinkled transversely, with 2 black spots near the callosities, 

 placed closer together than in C. Cnenopodii. Elytra : Corium ; the 

 $ frequently with a small black spot on the membrane-suture, 

 about the middle of the outer cell ; Cuneus yellowish-green ; Mem- 

 brane blackish ; the inner margin as far as a line with the tip of the 

 cuneus and the anterior margin narrowly black ; cell- nerves green 

 or yellow ; apex of the outer nerve exteriorly margined with brown ; 

 in addition, the $ generally has a black spot at the outer angle of 

 the outer cell next the cuneus. Legs greenish or brownish-yellow, 

 clothed with very short, fine black hairs ; all the thighs with a few 

 stout, almost erect, black hairs ; 3rd pair with several brown 

 spots at the apex ; tibia piceous at the apex ; 3rd pair slightly bent, 

 with short, stout, spinose black hairs ; tarsi brownish ; apex of the 

 3rd joint and the claws piceous. 



Abdomen. Upperside black j conneximim brownish-yellow or yel- 

 lowish; underside clothed with fine, short, yellowish-white or 

 silvery hairs. 



Length, 3^ 3f lines. 



A common species, on the borders of fields and woods, and at 

 the bottom of hedge-banks, amongst nettles, &c., by beating and 

 sweeping, in June and July. 



Species 4. DEILEOCORIS STRIATUS. 



CIMEX STRIATUS, Lin. F. S. 960 (1761) ; Scop. Ent. Cam. 133, 387 (1763) ; 



Lin. S. N. 730, 105 (1767) ; De G. Mem. iii, 191, 29, 



t. 15, figs. 13-15 (1773) ; Schr. Enum. 284-, 547 



(1781). 



Minis Wolff, Ic. Cim. 37, t. 4, fig. 37, a, b (1800) ; Fab. S. R. 



255, 15 (1803) 

 CAPSUS Panz. F. G. 93, 22 (18011805) ; Meyer, Caps. 94, 



80 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 97, 11 (1848). 

 (DEILEOCORIS) STRIATUS, Kirschb. 49, 37 (1855). 

 PHYTOCORIS STRIATUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 83, 14 (1829) ; Hahn t Wauz. 

 ii, 134, fig. 219 (1833); Burnt. Handb. ii, 267, 

 4 (1835) ; Am. et Serv. Hem. 279, 1 (1843) ; 

 Zett. Ins. Lap. 272, 7 (1845). 

 POLYMERUS (CYLLECORIS) STRIATUS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 103, 76 (1845). 



