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Species 1. CAMPYLONEURA VIRGULA. 



CAPSUS VIRGULA, H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 51, fig. 268 (1836). 

 CAMPYLONEURA VIRGULA, lieb. Europ. Hem. 269 (1861). 



Pale yellow, sparingly clothed with short, fine white hairs. 



Head black ; Crown on the inside of the hinder margin of the 

 eyes with a yellow spot. Antennae clothed with very short, fine 

 white hairs; 1st joint yellow or red, apex brown ; 2nd black, apex 

 generally brownish-yellow ; 3rd yellow, basal 3rd brown or red ; 

 4th yellow. Rostrum yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; collar pale yellowish- white ; callosities 

 orange-reddish, with a small puncture in the centre ; sides frequently 

 narrowly bright red from behind the callosities ; disk pale yellowish- 

 white, finely punctured and transversely wrinkled. Scutellum ; 

 from the base to the transverse channel orange-yellow ; sides brown ; 

 hinder portion pale yellow. Elytra diaphanous ; Clavus ; base red- 

 dish-brown ; inner margin and suture, except the base of the latter, 

 narrowly black ; nerve pale brownish-yellow ; disk pale pitchy 

 brown; Gorium ; anterior margin black, extreme base reddish or 

 reddish-brown ; disk wax-white ; between the apex of the clavus and 

 the posterior inner angle, a pale piceous, oval patch ; Cuneus ; base 

 bright lemon-yellow, generally paler next the anterior margin ; apex 

 bright carmine, frequently continued along the anterior margin for 

 about f rds its length ; Membrane blackish, iridescent, with a broad, 

 clear, curved patch below the outer cell-nerve, and extending to the 

 apex of the cuneus; cell-nerves bright-red. Legs pale yellow, 

 clothed with short, fine, yellowish- white hairs; thighs; next the 

 apex orange-yellow ; tibice ; 1st and 2nd pairs somewhat stout ; 3rd 

 pair with a few longish, somewhat spinose, brownish-yellow hairs ; 

 tarsi; extreme apex of the 3rd joint and claws black. 



Abdomen. $ yellow, clothed with short, fine, yellow hairs ; $ , 

 apex of the ovipositor and a large round spot on the side of the 3rd 

 genital segment black. 



Length, If If line. 



Not an uncommon species by beating beech trees at Wickham, 

 also on palings at Bromley and Bexley, in August and September. 



