408 CAPSINA. 



Species 3. APOCREMNUS VARIABILIS. 



PHYTOCORIS VARIABILIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 98, 43 (1829); Hahn, 

 Wanz. ii, 137, fi&. 224 (1834) ; Zett. Ins. 

 Lap. 275, 23 (1839). 



CAPSUS VARIABILIS, Meyer, Caps. 68, 38, tab. 3, fig. 4 (1843) ; Sahib. 

 Geoc. Fen. 115, 54 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 93, 

 129 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) VARIABILIS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 592, 74 (1860). 

 APOCREMNUS VARIABILIS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 304, 4 (1861). 



Pitchy brown, brownish-red, reddish-yellow or yellowish, clothed 

 with short, depressed, golden-yellow hairs. 



Head black. Antenna yellow; 1st joint at the base narrowly 

 black. Rostrum brownish or yellowish ; tip piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum black or brown-black. Scutellum black or 

 brownish-black. Elytra pitchy brown, brownish-red, reddish-yellow, 

 or yellowish; Corium ; anterior margin, in pitchy-brown examples, 

 broadly dark brown, widest next the apex, and with somewhat of a 

 reddish tinge ; between the 1st nerve and the anterior margin at the 

 apex reddish ; Ctmeus reddish-black or brown, with a narrow, pale, 

 triangular patch at the base ; Membrane fuscous, iridescent, darkest 

 from below the cells to the apex of the anterior margin ; in the middle 

 frequently an indistinct, pale, curved streak ; between the apex of the 

 cuneus and the cells a triangular, white patch ; inner marginal nerve 

 brown ; celLnerves brown, apex white ; basal half of the outer cell 

 white. Sternum pitchy brown or reddish-yellow. Legs blackish- 

 brown, brown-red or reddish ; thighs, in blackish brown examples, 1st 

 pair broadly, 2nd and 3rd narrowly yellowish or reddish-yellow ; tibia 

 yellow, with black spots and short, black, erect, spinose hairs; 

 tarsi yellowish ; 1st joint, sometimes, and 3rd, brown ; claws 

 brownish-red. 



Length, 1J line. 



A very abundant species at Darenth Wood and elsewhere, in 

 June, on oaks, &c. 



