LITOSOMIDyE. 311 



JSpecies 7. LITOSOMA FLAVOSPARSUS. 



CAPSUS FLAVOSPARSUS, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 103, 26 (1848); Kirschb. 



Caps. 89, 120 (1855). 



PHYTOCORIS J1ohem.~Vet. Akad. Eorh. 13 5 18 (1852). 



CAPSUS (CAPSUS) FLAVOSPARSUS, Flor, llliyn. Liv. i, 582, 66 (1860). 

 ORTHOTYLUS FLAVOSPARSUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 288, 2 (1861). 



^ elongate, somewhat parallel ; $ subelliptic. Green, clothed with 

 short, fine, depressed, white hairs, intermixed with stoutish 

 somewhat erect, black ones. Elytra more or less spotted with 

 yellowish-white. 



Head. Antenna ; 1st joint greenish ; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, yel- 

 lowish or pale brownish-yellow. Eyes black. Rostrum green ; tip 

 black. 



Thorax. Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the anterior margin, 

 connected by a very short transverse keel ; hinder angles raised ; 

 posterior margin slightly convex, almost straight in the middle; disk 

 slightly convex, deeply punctured. Scuiellwn convex, flattish in the 

 centre, very slightly raised above the clavus. Elytra diaphanous ; 

 Clavus almost flat between the inner margin and the nerve, deflected 

 from thence to the suture ; inner margin and suture dark green ; 

 disk pale green, more or less spotted with yellowish- white, and with 

 minute dark green spots, in each of which is set a stoutish, somewhat 

 erect, black hair ; Corium very pale green, more or less spotted with 

 yellowish- white ; anterior margin and 1st nerve dark green; disk 

 with numerous minute dark green spots, in each of which is set a 

 stoutish, somewhat erect, black hair ; Cuneus ; anterior and inner 

 margins dark green ; apex of the latter and the anterior basal angle 

 pale ; Membrane very pale brown, iridescent ; inner marginal nerve 

 pale ; cell-nerves green, with a very narrow white margin exte- 

 riorly ; cells green. Legs green ; tibite with long, fine, somewhat 

 spinose, pale brown hairs ; apex very narrowly brownish-yellow ; 

 tarsi yellow ; apex of the 3rd joint and claws black. 



Abdomen greenish-yellow. 



Length, If 2 lines. 



After death. the head, anterior half of the pronotum, and scu- 

 tellura, generally become yellow, and the elytra more or less yellow- 

 ish-green. 



