376 CAPSINA. 



Abdomen underneath black or brown in the <$ ; the 2 terminal and 

 margins of the other segments greenish yellow in the $ ; in both 

 sexes clothed with short yellowish hairs. 



Length, 1^ 1| lines. 



In immature examples the pronotum, with the exception of 2 

 piceous streaks between the callosities, the scutellum (sometimes 

 with a piceous central streak) and the elytra with the exception of 

 the pale brown tip of the cuneus, are entirely pale greenish-yellow, 

 changing after death to pale yellowish- white ; abdomen underneath 

 greenish-yellow ; the other characters as in mature specimens. 



This species bears a great resemblance to I. errans, but may 

 easily be separated from that insect by its smaller size, shorter 

 antennae and legs. 



Not uncommon at Plumstead, Darenth, and Tunbridge "Wells, in 

 June, July, and August, by searching between the leaves of the 

 common fox-glove, Digitali&purpurea. 



Species 2. IDOLOCORIS ANNULATUS. 



GERRIS ANNULATUS, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 162, tab. 16, fig. 156 (1802), 

 CAFSUS H.Schf. Wanz. iii, 52, 270 (1836); Meyer, Caps. 



58 (1843); Kirschb. Caps. 47, 33 (1855). 

 BKACHYCER^A ANNULATA, Fieb. Europ. Hem., 325, 3 (1861). 



Short, slightly oval. Pale greenish or reddish-gray ; Antenna short ; 

 3rd and 4th joints somewhat stout ; Pronotum very faintly 

 wrinkled transversely ; Gorium sparingly set with minute brown 

 punctures, in each of which is a stiff, somewhat erect, brown 

 hair. 



Head yellow, shining ; Grown with a black X-shaped patch, ex- 

 tending from the antenniferous processes to the hinder margin of the 

 eyes; sides of the neck broadly black. Antenna black; 1st joint 

 shorter than the head, base and apex narrowly white ; 2nd 2 times 

 as long as the 1st, with a yellow ring before or in the middle, apex 

 narrowly white ; 4th more than \ the length of the 3rd, brownish. 

 Eyes black. Hostrwit yellow; 1st joint black, base of the 2nd 

 black ; tip brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum brownish or reddish-brown ; collar white, or 



