326 CAPSINA. 



CAPSUS (DEftyEOCoius) CIIENOPODII, Kirschb. Caps. 57, 51 (1855). 

 (CAPSUS) CHENOPODII, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 501, 19 (I860). 

 CALOCORIS CHENOPODII, Fiel. Europ. Hem. 255, 12 (1861). 



(J elongate, wide ; somewhat oval. Gray-greenish, or pale yel- 

 lowish-green, thickly clothed with very pale golden-yellow hairs ; 

 3rd and 4th joints of the antennae thickened. 



Head. Antenna; 1st joint clothed with short, black hairs, with 

 a few scattered black spots, in each of which is set a short, stout, 

 almost erect, black hair ; 1st and 2nd pale brownish-yellow ; 3rd 

 and 4th, and the apex of the 2nd, reddish ; base of the 3rd pale. 

 Rostrum reaching to the 2nd abdominal segment, pale brownish- 

 yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the collar; disk 

 somewhat thickly and finely punctured, with 2 black spots near the 

 hinder margin, almost in a line with the basal angles of the 

 scutellum ; frequently the spots are wanting. Scutellum finely 

 wrinkled transversely, with a piceous or blackish streak down each 

 side of the centre. Elytra : Clavus ; the whole, or the apical half of 

 the inner margin, the nerve, and frequently the space between the 

 nerve and the inner margin piceous ; Corium ; anterior margin and 

 basal half of the 1st nerve black or pitchy black ; frequently the 1st 

 nerve broadly, and a somewhat longish triangular patch at the apex 

 between the 1st and 2nd nerves piceous ; Cuneus pale greenish- 

 white ; extreme apex frequently piceous ; Memlrane hyaline or 

 pale gray ; cell nerves yellowish or brownish, narrowly margined 

 on both sides with pale yellow; inner margin to a little beyond 

 the tip of the cuneus and the apex of the inner cell-nerve, piceous. 

 Legs pale brownish-yellow ; all the thighs with black spots, 

 thickest on the 3rd pair next the apex, with a few scattered, fine, 

 almost erect, black hairs ; tibiae with black spots, in each of which is 

 set a short, stout, black, spinose hair j 3rd pair slightly bent ; tarsi 

 brownish-yellow ; apex of the 3rd joint piceous or black ; claws 

 brown. 



Abdomen ; upperside brown or black ; apex frequently, and the 

 connexivum, greenish. 



Length, 3^ 4 lines. 



After death, the insect generally changes in colour to brownish- 

 yellow, or yellowish, the markings becoming more or less decided ; 

 the cuneus, as in life, remaining always distinctly palest. It is a 



