LITOSOMID^E. 345 



Head yellow. Antenna yellow, clothed with very fine, pale hairs ; 

 3rd and 4th joints brownish. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; callosities joined in front by a short trans- 

 verse keel, with a short transverse channel in the middle, behind 

 the latter. Mytra : Cuneus ; margin and the suture bluish-green ; 

 Membrane blackish ; cell-nerves bluish-green. Legs yellow- greenish, 

 thickly clothed with very fine, pale hairs ; thighs not punctured ; 

 tibicB ; apex yellow ; tarsi yellow, apex brown. 



Abdomen underside pale. 



Length, 2 lines. 



We took 2 specimens of this insect at Southend, in September, 

 by sweeping herbage. They were sent to Dr. Fieber for determina- 

 tion, but, having received much injury in the journey home, we have 

 been obliged to quote Dr. Pieber's description, 



Species 12. LITOSOMA CHLOROPTERUS. 



CAPSUS CHLOHOPTERUS, Kirschb. Caps. 89, 121, & 156, 21 (1855). 

 PACHYLOPS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 285 (1861). 



$ somewhat elongate; ? subelliptic. Green, somewhat thickly 

 clothed with fine, short, white hairs, intermixed with longish, 

 somewhat erect, black ones. Legs; 3rd pair of thighs very 

 stout. 



Head yellowish-green, very wide between the eyes ; Face ; central 

 lobe convex, somewhat prominent. Antenna ; 1st joint greenish or 

 yellowish-green, with a few erect black hairs ; 2nd 4 times as long 

 as the 1st, yellowish or pale brownish-yellow ; 3rd and 4th brownish. 

 Mostrum short, scarcely reaching to the middle coxae, greenish or 

 yellowish-green ; tip blackish. 



Thorax. ^Pronotum with 2 more or less distinct callosities behind 

 the anterior margin ; hinder angles very slightly raised ; posterior 

 margin convex, slightly indented in the middle, and somewhat 

 depressed next the basal angles of the scutellum ; disk flattish ; the 

 anterior portion to behind the callosities frequently yellowish-green. 

 Scutellum convex, flattish in the centre, almost level with the 

 clavus ; base as far as the transverse channel and the sides some- 

 times yellowish. Elytra; Clavus transversely wrinkled; Corium 

 somewhat flattish in the centre, convex on the sides; Membrane 



