356 



CAPSINA. 



Head black. Antenna pale yellow ; 1st joint black at the base. 

 Eyes black. Rostrum; 1st joint and apex blackish. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides narrowly black, sometimes with an 

 oval brownish spot between the anterior margin of the callosities 

 and the basal angles of the scutellum. Elytra somewhat diapha- 

 nous ; inner margin and nerve of the clavus, and the anterior and 

 posterior margins of the corium darker than the disk ; Membrane 

 pale, iridescent ; the entire margin, except a pale patch between the 

 cells and the apex of the cuneus, broadly black, narrowed towards 

 and along the inner margin ; inner marginal nerve black ; cell- nerves 

 yellow or reddish-yellow ; inner cell black ; outer cell more or less 

 clouded with black towards the apex. Legs yellow ; thighs some- 

 times reddish-orange towards the apex ; tibiae with short, somewhat 

 spinose, yellowish hairs; tarsi; apex of the 3rd joint and claivs 

 pale brown. 



Abdomen black, or brown-black. 



Length, 2J lines. 



Not an uncommon species at Darenth, &c., on nut-bushes, in 

 June. 



Species 3. PHYLUS CORYLI. 



CIMEX CORYLI, Lin. F. S. 974 (1761) ; S. N. 733, 121 (1767). 

 LYG^US Fab. E. S. iv. 171, 126 (1794) ; S. K. 234, 150 (1803). 

 PHYTOCORIS CORYLI, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 90, 27 (1829) ; Burm. Handb. 



ii, 268, 8 (1835). 



PHYLUS PALLIPES, Hahn, Wanz. i, 26, fig. 16 (1831). 

 CAPSUS CORYLI, Meyer, Caps. 54, 15 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 99, 16 



(1848); Kirschb. Caps. 74, 85 (1855). 

 (CAPSUS) CORYLI, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 620, 96 (1860). 

 PHYLUS CORYLI, Fieb. Europ. Hera. 314, 4, (1861). 



Black, brownish-black, or grayish, shining, clothed with fine, yel- 

 lowish hairs. Pronotum with a small puncture within the ante- 

 rior angles. Membrane entirely black, excepting a white, trian- 

 gular patch between the apex of the cuneus and the cells ; cells 

 black. 



Head. Antennae yellow ; base of the 1st joint black. Eyes 

 brownish-black. Hostrum yellow ; 1st joint black or brown ; tip 

 brown. 



