344 CAPSINA. 



CAPSUS (CAPSUS) ERICETOEUM, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 587, 70 (1860). 

 LITOCORIS EfttCETORUM, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 287 (1861). 



Short, narrow, subelliptic. Green, clothed with somewhat erect, 

 brownish hairs. Head convex between the eyes, and without a 

 transverse keel at the hinder margin. Legs; 3rd pair of 

 thighs stout. 



Head. Antennae yellowish ; 3rd and 4th joints brownish. Eyes 

 large, black ; viewed from above somewhat hemispherical, from the 

 side oval. Rostrum reaching to beyond the 3rd pair of coxae ; yel- 

 lowish ; tip brown ; 1st joint stout, reaching to the end of the 

 xyphus of the prosternum. 



Thorax. Pronotum with a deep transverse channel behind the 

 anterior margin, indented in the middle ; hinder angles not raised ; 

 posterior margin convex, indented in the middle. Scutellwn convex, 

 level with the clavus, and with a faint central keel extending from 

 the transverse channel to the apex. Mytra; Clavus* sparingly 

 punctured; Corium; anterior margin yellowish, generally with a 

 idark green margin on the inside ; 1st nerve yellowish at the base ; 

 disk convex, slightly flattened in the middle, sparingly punctured ; 

 Cuneus ; apex ochreous ; Membrane pale brownish, iridescent, with 

 a dark triangular patch on the anterior margin below the apex of 

 the cuneus ; anterior margin piceous ; cell-nerves brownish-yellow. 

 Legs greenish or yellowish-green ; thighs ; 3rd pair stout ; tibia 

 yellowish, with brownish, somewhat spinose, hairs ; tarsi brownish- 

 yellow ; 3rd joint and claws blackish. 



Abdomen greenish. 



Length, 1 j 1J line. 



A very common species amongst heather, from July to September. 

 It has occurred at Shirley, Weybridge, and other places in the 

 London district. 



Species 11. LITOSOMA PRASINUS. 



CAPSUS PRASINDS (Pict. et Meyer), teste, Fieb. 

 HYPSITYLUS PRASINUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 286 (1861). 



Elongate. Darkish green ; thickly clothed with depressed yellowish 

 hairs. 



