388 CAPSINA. 



Abdomen underneath greenish or yellowish. 



Length, 2 2 lines. 



A very abundant and widely distributed species on Tanacetum 

 vulgar e, in July. At Folkestone, "Weybridge, Lee, and other places 

 in the London district. 



Species 2. MACROCOLEUS PAYKULLII. 



PHYTOCORIS PAYKULLII, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 106, 57 (1829). 



CAPSUS MACULIPENNIS, Meyer, Caps. 81, 60 tab. 5, fig. 1 (1843) ; Kirschb. 



Caps. 81, 104 (1855). 

 MACROCOLEUS PAYKULI, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 319, 2 (1861). 



Green or whitish-green, clothed with short black hairs disposed in 

 small irregular patches. 



Head brown. Antenna greenish ; 1st joint in the middle black, 

 apex narrowly pale ; 2nd brown, black at the base ; 3rd and 4th 

 yellowish-brown. Rostrum brownish, tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum in front to behind the callosities sometimes 

 brown. Scutellum between the base and the transverse channel gene- 

 rally brownish or yellowish-brown. Elytra clothed with short black 

 hairs disposed in small irregular patches ; membrane blackish, faintly 

 iridescent ; between the apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve 

 a triangular white spot and from the latter to the anterior margin a 

 curved white streak ; immediately below the apex of the cuneus a 

 square black patch, underneath which is a roundish white spot ; 

 inner marginal nerve black ; cell-nerves white, inner cell black ; 

 Legs greenish ; thighs very sparingly clothed with short, fine, black 

 hairs ; tibiae with fine, short, black, erect hairs ; tarsi and claws 

 brown. 



Length, 1J 1= line. 



An exceedingly abundant species, on Ononis spinosa, at Folkestone, 

 in July. Scarborough, in September (Wilkinson). 



Genus 3. AMBLYTYLUS, Fieb. 



Elongate, slightly oval. 



Head long, very much deflected; length about equal to the 

 breadth across the eyes ; Crown convex ; Clypeus convex, and 

 forming a continuous curve with the crown, apex considerably in 



