378 CAPSINA. 



Short, slightly oval. Pale brownish-yellow, very sparingly clothed 

 with short, stiff, somewhat erect, brown hairs ; Antenna short ; 

 Pronotum very coarsely punctured and transversely wrinkled. 



Head shining, black ; Crown with 2 yellow spots next the hinder 

 margin of the eyes, sometimes prolonged into a streak along the 

 inner margin of the latter. Antennae black or brown-black; 1st 

 joint shorter than the head ; base, and apex, especially the latter, 

 narrowly white ; 2nd 2-J- times longer than the 1st ; apex narrowly 

 white ; 3rd and 4th together as long as the 2nd, 4th ^ as long as 

 the 3rd. Eyes black or dark reddish-brown. Rostrum reaching to 

 the 2nd pair of coxa3, yellowish ; base of the 1st and 2nd joints and 

 tip brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; .callosities black, shining; disk very deeply 

 punctured and transversely wrinkled ; posterior margin concave, 

 sometimes broadly piceous. Scutellum black, deeply wrinkled trans- 

 versely in the middle from behind the transverse channel, sides not 

 wrinkled, with a triangular yellow streak, nearly extending to the 

 apex, the latter frequently narrowly reddish-brown. Elytra dia- 

 phanous ; Glavus deeply and coarsely punctured, inner margin 

 brown ; Corium less deeply and not so coarsely punctured as the 

 clavus; anterior margin pale yellowish-brown; Cuneus ; apex nar- 

 rowly brown ; Membrane pale, very faintly iridescent ; cell-nerves 

 brownish-yellow. Legs yellow, sparingly clothed with very short 

 brown hairs ; thighs with 2 short, longitudinal rows of large brown 

 spots near the apex; tibia with a few very short, somewhat 

 spinose, brown hairs ; tarsi ; apex of the 3rd joint brown ; claws 

 reddish-yellow. 



Abdomen underneath black or brown, sparingly clothed with very 

 short, yellowish hairs. 



Length, 1J line. 



Apparently not a common species, though widely distributed ; we 

 have taken it at Lewisham, Eltham, and Bexley, by sweeping the 

 flowers of Lychnis dioica, in May and July ; Scarborough in June 

 (Wilkinson) \ Wales (Wollaston). 



