398 CAPSINA. 



eyes as long ; Crown flat ; Clypeus convex, apex and the short anten- 

 niferous processes in a line with the underside of the eyes ; side 

 lobes somewhat triangular, stout, convex ; Face obtuse, central lobe 

 convex, stout ; side lobes short, somewhat triangular, outwardly 

 slightly concave. Antenna shorter than the body ; 1st joint stout, 

 f ths as long as the head ; 2nd stout, thickened to the apex, 2J times 

 longer than the 1st ; 3rd and 4th thinner, 3rd about f ths as long as the 

 2nd, 4th somewhat fusiform, as long as the 1st. Eyes large, promi- 

 nent, their hinder margins resting on the anterior margin of the pro- 

 notum ; viewed from above almost spherical, from the side short oval. 

 Rostrum stout, reaching to the 3rd pair of coxae ; 1st joint almost 

 reaching to the end of the xyphus of the prosternum. 



Thorax. Pronotum short, trapeziform ; 2^ times as broad across 

 the posterior margin as long, with 2 callosities behind the concave 

 anterior margin, angles rounded ; sides concave ; hinder angles 

 short, acute, slightly raised ; posterior margin slightly concave, 

 rounded from the basal angles of the scutellum towards and at the 

 hinder angles; disk flattish in the middle, deflected to the head, 

 sides convex. Scutellum triangular, equilateral, slightly raised above 

 the clavus, with a transverse channel near the base ; anterior por- 

 tion flat, deflected to the transverse channel ; hinder portion flattish 

 in the middle; sides convex. Elytra longer than the abdomen; 

 Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Corium horizontal, convex, 

 flattish at the base between the claval suture and 1st nerve ; cuneus 

 and membrane slightly deflected ; Guneus long, narrow, triangular. 

 Sternum : Prosternum ; xyphus short, triangular, strongly margined ; 

 Mesosternum ; posterior margin notched in the centre, sides convex ; 

 Metasternum short, conical. Legs; tibice ; 3rd pair slightly bent 

 inwardly below the base; tarsi long; 2nd and 3rd joints almost of 

 equal length ; 1st very short ; claws long. 



Species 1. CONOSTETHUS ROSEUS. 



CAPSUS KOSETJS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 124, 17 (1829). 



(CAPSUS) ARIDELLUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 556, 50 (1860). 

 CONOSTETHUS ROSEUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 299 & 393, 394 (1861). 



^ brownish-pink, clothed with very short, fine, white hairs. 



'Head black, dull ; Grown with a small, shining, black spot near 

 the hinder margin of each eye ; Clypeus in front, with a w sna P e< l 

 patch, and side lobes yellowish- white ; Face; central lobe yellow, 



