380 CAPSINA. 



nerves to the apex; inner marginal and cell-nerves brown. Legs 

 white, or pale yellowish-white, clothed with short, stiff, brown hairs ; 

 thighs with 2 longitudinal, somewhat irregular rows of brown 

 spots next the apex; tibiae with a few somewhat spinose brown 

 hairs; on the upperside of the knee a short brown streak; tarsi 

 yellowish ; base of the 1st joint narrowly, and 3rd brown ; claws 

 reddish. 



Abdomen underneath pitchy brown or yeDowish-brown, clothed 

 with yellowish hairs. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



In pale yellowish-white examples the spots on the corium are 

 not so distinct, and the apical spots, as well as that of the cuneus, 

 are red; frequently the $ has undeveloped elytra. 



This is a very abundant species, in June and July, on Stacliys 

 sylvatica, Epilobium, and other plants. We have met with it at 

 Lewisham, Eltham, Darenth, and other places in the London dis- 

 trict. Mr. "Wilkinson has also taken it at Scarborough. 



Species 5. IDOLOCORIS PALLIDUS. 



CAFSUS COLLARIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 125, 19 var. (3 (1829). 



PALLIDUS, H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 51, fig. 269 (1836) ; Meyer, Caps. 



64 (1843); Kirschb. Caps. 42, 25 (1855). 



CONSTRICTUS, Boh. Vet. Mad. Forh. 32 (1852). 

 DICYPHUS PALLIDUS, Heb. Europ. Hem. 325, 2 (1861). 



Elongate, parallel, narrow, shining. Pale yellowish-white, very 

 sparingly clothed with short, stiff, somewhat erect, brown hairs ; 

 Corium without brown spots ; anterior margin somewhat ciliate ; 

 3rd pair of legs very long. 



Head yellow, behind the eyes sometimes a large black spot; 

 Face; central lobe frequently brown at the base. Antenna yellow, 

 clothed with very short, brownish hairs; 1st joint as long as the 

 head, red, base broadly and apex narrowly white, or yellowish-white ; 

 2nd, base and apex narrowly white or yellowish-white, before the 

 apex narrowly brown ; 3rd and 4th brown, base of the 3rd white. 

 Eyes brown or red-brown. Eostrum yellow, extreme tip brownish. 



Thorax. Pronotum on the sides below the callosities with a brown 

 spot ; disk behind the callosities very faintly wrinkled transversely, 



