350 CAPSINA. 



Cmeus; anterior and inner margins brown; disk pale brownish- 

 yellow, apex pitchy-black ; Membrane gray, iridescent, with a pale 

 triangular patch between the apex of the cuneus and the underside 

 of the inner cell ; inner marginal and cell-nerves brown, except the 

 apex of the inner cell-nerve, which is pale ; outer cell-nerve very 

 narrowly margined with brown exteriorly, and with a small spot of 

 the same colour in the cell about midway down and touching the 

 outer nerve. Legs yellowish or brownish-yellow, clothed with short, 

 fine, white hairs; tibia with a few long, erect, fine hairs; tarsi 

 yellowish, 1st joint darker, 3rd blackish ; claws brown. 



Abdomen. Upper and undersides black, the latter sparingly clothed 

 with short, fine, white hairs. 



Length, 2| lines. 



$ longish oval or somewhat pyriform. Black, clothed with fine 

 white hairs. Elytra undeveloped. 



Head larger than in the <. Antennas; 2nd joint stouter; basal 

 half of the 3rd yellow. , 



Thorax. Pronotum short, trapeziform, behind the callosities finely 

 wrinkled transversely ; anterior margin convex, angles rounded ; sides 

 almost straight ; hinder angles not raised ; posterior margin as in the 

 $ . Scutellwn in the centre next the transverse channel transversely 

 wrinkled. Elytra short, without a claval suture ; Corium ; anterior 

 margin somewhat thickened, rounded at the apex, base with a short 

 longitudinal channel ; disk convex, thickly and coarsely punctured ; 

 Cuneus and Membrane wanting. 



Abdomen shining, very convex; Connexivum broad, nearly hori- 

 zontal above ; all other characters as in the $ . 



Length, If line. 



Developed examples of the ? have not occurred in this country, 

 so far as we know ; and Flor, in the ' Ehyncoten Livlands,' i, 378, 

 says that it is also unknown in Lapland, Sweden, and Finland ; 

 H. Sch., however, says, in ' Wanz.,' iii, p. 109, "the ? is long oval ; 

 elytra dark brown, with a paler, almost diaphanous, cuneus. Deve- 

 loped ? 's are scarce.' 1 



We have never met with this insect abundantly, although it seems 

 to be widely distributed, as it has occurred in South "Wales, at 

 Plumstead, and other places in the London district, by beating and 

 sweeping, amongst grass, &c., in July. 



