358 CAPSINA. 



Head. Antenna yellow ; base of the 1st joint generally blackish. 

 Hostrum yellow ; 1st joint sometimes brown ; tip brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; anterior margin narrowly, and angles more 

 or less broadly, piceous. Scutellum ; transverse channel concave in the 

 middle ; basal angles frequently brown ; hinder portion finely 

 wrinkled transversely, occasionally brown, the centre more or less 

 pale, Elytra : Clavus ; base narrowly red ; Corium ; base narrowly 

 red ; anterior margin in brownish-red examples blackish, the colour 

 spreading as it reaches the apex ; space between the 1st nerve and 

 the anterior margin piceous ; Cimeus reddish or orange-red, some- 

 times the apex and the anterior margin narrowly brown ; Mem- 

 brane pale pitchy-brown, iridescent, with a pale streak extending 

 from below the apex of the cuneus to the base of the inner cell ; 

 anterior margin frequently narrowly brown ; cell-nerves gray or 

 grayish-white ; inner cell-nerve and apex of both the cell-nerves red. 

 Legs yellow ; tibiae with short, fine, somewhat spinose, pale brownish 

 yellow hairs ; tarsi; apex of the 3rd joint pale brown ; claws reddish- 

 yellow. 



Abdomen underneath, dark brown or reddish-brown. 



Length, 2| lines. 



"We have met with this insect abundantly, on nut- bushes, at 

 Croydon, Micklehain, and Darenth, in July. 



FAMILY 8. C AHARON OTTO^E. 



Genus 1. CAMARONOTUS, Fieb. 



Elongate; Corium widened from behind the middle towards the 

 cuneus. 



Head long, triangular, very considerably deflected ; wider across 

 the eyes than long, with a distinct transverse keel almost in a line 

 with the hinder margin of the latter ; Clypeus slightly convex, apex 

 in a line with the base of the antennae ; antenniferous processes 

 short, in a line with the underside of the eyes ; Face pointed ; 

 central lobe longish, broad, slightly convex ; side lobes very short 

 and narrow. Antennae shorter than the body ; 1st joint short, some- 

 what stout, about \ as long as the head ; 2nd stout, thickened to the 

 apex, 4| times as long as the 1st ; 3rd and 4th somewhat filiform ; 

 3rd longer than the 4th, sometimes a little stouter. Eyes large, pro- 



