LITOSOMID^l. 337 



Species 3. LITOSOMA NASSATUS. 



CIMEX NASSATUS, Fab. Mantiss. ii, 304, 251 (1787). 



LYG^EUS NASSATUS, Fab. E. S. iv, 174, 136 (1794) ; S. R. 236, 167 (1803). 



PHYTOCORIS NASSATUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 80, 7 (1829) ; Kolen. Mel. 



Ent. ii, 117, 96 (1845); Zett. Ins. Lap. 272, 



4 (1839). 

 LYGUS ICTEROCEPHALUS, Hahn, Wanz, i, 149, fig. 75 (1831). 



NASSATUS, Hahn, Wanz. i, 153, fig. 78 (1831). 



CAPSUS Meyer, Caps. 50, 8 (1843) ; Sahib. Geoc. Een. 102, 

 24 (1848); Kirschb. Caps. 78, 98 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) NASSATUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 618, 94 (I860). 

 ORTHOTYLUS NASSATUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 289, 6 (1861). 



Elongate ; < somewhat parallel ; <j> subelliptic. G-reen ; somewhat 

 sparingly clothed with long, fine, white hairs. Corium ciliate. 



Head. Antennae yellowish or brownish-yellow ; 1st joint fre- 

 quently brownish ; apex yellow, or yellow with the base piceous ; 

 apex of the 2nd sometimes brown ; 3rd and 4th brown. Eyes black ; 

 Hostrum greenish or yellowish-green ; tip piceous or black. 



Thorax. Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the anterior margin ; 

 hinder angles somewhat raised, posterior margin almost straight; 

 disk convex, transversely wrinkled. Scutelkm convex, raised above 

 the clavus. Mytra : Claws ; inner margin and nerve dark green ; 

 suture somewhat yellowish ; disk pale green, deeply punctured, and 

 thickly covered with minute dark green spots, more or less confluent, 

 and sometimes forming small, irregular patches ; Corium; anterior 

 margin generally yellowish ; disk somewhat shagreened ; flattish be- 

 tween the inner margin and the 1st nerve, then somewhat con- 

 vex, and abruptly deflected to the anterior margin ; the entire 

 disk pale green, thickly covered with minute dark green spots, more 

 or less confluent, especially between the 1st nerve and the anterior 

 margin ; 1st nerve and [apex dark green ; Cuneus green ; anterior 

 margin and apex darker ; Membrane pale gray, iridescent ; inner 

 marginal nerve brownish; cell-nerves green or yellowish-green, 

 exteriorly margined with brown, broadest below the apex ; outer cell 

 with a short green streak near the middle of the outer nerve. Legs 

 greenish or yellowish ; tibia with long, fine, r pale brown, spinose 

 hairs ; apex brownish ; tarsi brownish or brownish-yellow ; apex of 

 the 3rd joint and claws black. 



