334 CAPSINA. 



yellow, base and apex red ; Membrane gray or blackish, with a pale 

 patch below the cells and the tip of the cuneus, and a darker trian- 

 gular patch on the anterior margin, extending to the apex ; inner 

 marginal nerve piceous ; cell-nerves red. Legs yellowish or greenish- 

 yellow, clothed with short, black hairs ; all the tliiglis with brown 

 spots, more or less disposed in longitudinal rows; all the tibicz 

 reddish at the apex ; tarsi yellowish or brownish-red ; apex of the 

 3rd joint and claws darker. 



Abdomen; upperside brown or black; underside yellowish or 

 greenish-yellow ; connexivum yellow ; stigmata black. 

 Length, 4 4J- lines. 



A common species on nut-bushes and alders, at Darenth Wood, 

 Mickleham, and other places in the London District, in August and 

 September. 



FAMILY 6. LITOSOMID^E. 



Genus 1. LITOSOMA.* 

 Somewhat elongate ; slightly elliptic, 



Head almost vertical in front ; wider across the eyes than long ; 

 with a more or less distinct, narrow, transverse keel behind the 

 eyes ; Crown somewhat flat ; Clypeus convex ; apex almost in a line 

 with the base of the antennae ; antenniferous processes very short, 

 in a line with the lower half of the eyes ; Face ; central lobe loiigish, 

 narrow, convex, projecting beyond the clypeus ; side lobes short, 

 somewhat stout, rounded outwardly. Antennce shorter than the 

 body ; 1st joint stout, as long as or a little longer than the head ; 

 2nd slightly thickened to the apex, 3 to 4 times as long as the 1st ; 

 3rd and 4th about \ as long as the 2nd. Eyes large, somewhat 

 prominent; viewed from above almost hemispherical; from the 

 side, oval. Rostrum reaching to the 2nd or 3rd pair of coxae ; 1st 

 joint stout, as long as the head, or reaching to the middle of the 

 xyphus of the prosternum. 



Thorax. Pronotwn short, trapeziform ; 1|- to 2 times broader 

 across the posterior margin than long ; anterior margin generally 

 concave, angles rounded ; sides nearly straight, or somewhat con- 

 cave ; hinder angles frequently raised ; posterior margin concave or 



* AITOS, plain, crctyia, body. 



