394 CAPSINA. 



Species 2. ONCOTYLUS TANACETI. 



PHYTOCORIS TANACETI, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 83, 13 (1829). 



MIRIS Germ. Eaun. Ins. Ear. fas. 16, tab. 15 (1813). 



CAPSUS H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 85, fig. 309 (1836); Kirschb. 



Caps. 80, 102 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) TANACETI, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 610, 87 (1860). 

 ONCOTYLUS TANACETI, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 299, 3 (1861). 



Green or yellowish-green, somewhat thickly clothed with black 

 hairs. 



Head. Crown with a black or brown spot near the hinder margin 

 of the eyes, frequently continued into a brown streak along their 

 inner margin; Face; basal angles of the central lobe sometimes 

 with a small black spot. Antennae yellow, clothed with very short 

 black hairs ; 1st joint sometimes greenish. Rostrum yellow ; 4th 

 joint black. 



Thorax. Pronotum frequently with an x -shaped patch between 

 the callosities. Scutellum sometimes with a short black streak on 

 each side the centre of the transverse channel. Elytra ; Cuneus pale 

 at the base ; Membrane brown, iridescent ; anterior margin and a 

 patch within the apex broadly darker ; inner marginal nerve brown ; 

 cell-nerves yellowish or yellowish -white ; cells black ; outer cell 

 paler at the base. Legs yellow, clothed with very short, fine, black 

 hairs ; thighs on the upperside, next the apex, with a few brown 

 spots, on the underside with a longitudinal row ; tibia with brown 

 spots, in each of which is set a stout, somewhat spinose, black 

 hair ; apex narrowly brown ; tarsi brown j 3rd joint and claivs 

 black. 



Length, If 2 lines. 



Abdomen. <$ above black, last segment and connexivum yel- 

 lowish-green ; underneath yellowish-green, clothed with fine, short, 

 yellow hairs ; $ entirely yellow or greenish-yellow. 



According to Fieber, and other authors, this is a common species 

 on the Continent, and taken in company with Macrocoleus molliculus 

 on Tanacetum vulgare. We have, however, only met with a few 

 examples by sweeping amongst flowers, &c., on a hedge bank be- 

 tween Leatherhead and Mickleham, in July, and at Newport, South 

 Wales, in August, by beating bramble bushes. 



