PHYLID^E. 355 



Species 1. PHYLUS PALLICEPS. 



PHYLUS PALLICEPS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 315, 2 (1861). 



Reddish or ochreous-yellow, clothed with fine, yellowish-white hairs ; 

 Membrane entirely pale. 



Head reddish or ochreous-yellow. Antenna pale yellow ; 1st 

 joint at the base sometimes narrowly brown. Eyes brown. Rostrum 

 pale yellow ; tip brown. 



Thorax. Elytra ; Membrane entirely pale, iridescent ; cell-nerves 

 pale "yellowish or reddish-yellow. Legs pale yellow ; tibia with 

 short, somewhat spinose, pale hairs ; tarsi pale yellow ; apex of the 

 3rd joint and claws brown. 



Abdomen above brown, connexivum yellowish ; underneath yel- 

 lowish, clothed with fine, yellowish hairs ; the middle frequently more 

 or less brown. 



Length, 2f lines. 



This insect is closely allied to P. melanocephalus, but may at once 

 be distinguished from it by its pale head and abdomen. 



Sparingly at Darenth Wood, on nut-bushes, in June. 



8pecies 2. PHYLUS MELANOCEPHALUS. 



CIMEX MELANOCEPHALUS, Lin. E. S. 974 (1761) ; S. N. 728, 88 (1767). 



Minis PALLENS, Fab. S. R. 254, 8 (1803). 



PHYTOCORIS REVESTITUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 89, 26 (1829). 



LYGUS MELANOCEPHALUS, Hahn, Wanz. i, 155, fig. 79 (1831). 



PHYTOCORIS Burm. Handb. ii, 268, 7 (1835). 



CAPSUS Meyer, Caps. 55, 17 (1843); Sahib., Geoc. 



Een. 99, 17 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 74, 84 



(1855). 



CAPSUS (CAPSUS) MELANOCEPHALUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 621, 96 (1860). 

 PHYLUS MELANOCEPHALUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 314, 3 (1861). 



Bright red, orange-red, orange-yellow, or pale ochreous-yellow, 

 clothed with fine, yellow hairs. Membrane, with the entire 

 margin, except a clear patch between the cells and the apex of 

 the cuneus, broadly black, narrowed towards and along the 

 inner margin ; inner cell black. 



