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most abundant species amongst CJienopodium, Ononis sponosa, and 

 other plants growing by the waysides, or on the borders of fields, or 

 woods, and to be met with from July to September, by beating or 

 sweeping. 



Species 9. DER^EOCORIS FERRUGATUS. 



CIMEX ROSEOMACULATUS, Ds Geer, Gesch. Ins. iii, 193, 32 (1780). 

 CAPSUS CRUENTATUS, fillers, L. E. 533, 188 (1789). 



RIBIS and C. ROSATUS, Schrank, P. B. 1149 (1801). 



LYG^EUS FERRUGATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 173, 132|(1794) ; S.R. 236, 163 (1803). 



PHYTOCORIS Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 86,19 (1829) ; Hahn, Wanz. i, 

 204, tab. 104 (1831) ; Bum. Handb. ii, 270, 16 

 (1835); Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 111, 87 (1845). 



CAPSUS Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 104, 29 (1848) ; Meyer, Caps. 



52, 12 (1843). 



(DER/EOCORIS) FERRUGATUS, Kirschb. Caps. 57, 53 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) FERRUGATUS, Flor, Ehyn. Liv. i, 496, 16 (1860). 

 HOMODEMUS FERRUGATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 249, 1 (1861). 



$ somewhat elongate, narrowed at the membrane ; $ somewhat 

 oval. Yellowish-green, or green, clothed with short, black hairs. 



Head brownish or brownish-red, with a pale central line from 

 between the eyes to the apex of the convex clypeus, and another 

 on the inside of each eye, extending to the base of the antennse ; or 

 sometimes the head is black, with the lines yellow ; Face frequently 

 rosy, central lobe large, stout, convex, with a short channel at the 

 base ; side lobes short, stout. Antennce brown, extreme apex of the 

 1st, and the 3rd and 4th joints darker; 1st covered with short, fine, 

 black hairs. Eyes brown, with a yellowish streak behind. Hostrum 

 brownish or brownish-yellow ; the tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the collar, frequently 

 connected, and with 2 deep punctures in front; occasionally the 

 posterior margin of the callosities is piceous or black ; disk thickly 

 and coarsely punctured, more or less pale brownish, leaving a broad 

 central streak, and the sides yellowish-green or greenish. Seutettwn 

 thickly and coarsely punctured, with a central, and occasionally a 

 transverse basal line, piceous or black. Elytra ; Clavus reddish or 

 rosy, except the apex and the nerve, which are pale ; frequently the 



