412 CAPSINA. 



apex with a narrow brownish-black ring. Rostrum pale yellowish, 

 tip brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum frequently with brown spots on the sides 

 towards the hinder angles. Scutellum unspotted at the base. 

 Elytra ; Clavus grayish -yellow, irregularly spotted with brown ; 

 Corium thickly and irregularly spotted with brown ; the interme- 

 diate spaces of a somewhat round form ; Cuneus pale grayish- white ; 

 inner margin in the middle narrowly red ; Membrane pale brownish, 

 iridescent ; below the cells, and next the anterior margin a large, 

 whitish patch, divided by a broad, somewhat curved, transverse 

 brown-black streak immediately below the apex of the cuneus ; cell- 

 nerves white, basal half of the outer one generally brownish ; cells 

 at the apex brown black. Legs pale yellowish -white ; thighs with 

 brown spots at the apex ; 3rd pair broadly brown ; tibice with black- 

 brown spots set in pairs, and longish, erect, somewhat spinose 

 black hairs ; tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint at the apex, and claws, brown. 



Abdomen ; underside grayish- white ; sides with brownish spots. 



Length, If- line. 



Not uncommon by beating nut bushes, in August and September, 

 at Wickham, Darenth "Wood, and Tunbridge "Wells. 



Species 2. PSALLUS QUERCETI. 



PHYTOCORIS QUERCETI, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 102, 49 (1829). 

 CAPSTJS SANGUINEUS, Kirschb. Caps. 97, 140 (1855). 

 PSALLUS QUERCETI, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 305, 2 (1861). 



Grayish or greenish-white, clothed with fine depressed, yellowish 

 hairs, sparingly intermixed with black ones. Elytra more or 

 less spotted with red. 



Ulead. AntenncB pale yellowish-white ; 1st joint before the apex 

 on the inside with a brown spot, in which is set a stout, erect, black 

 hair. Rostrum yellowish, tip blackish. 



Thorax. Pronotum with a few scattered red spots in front, and a 

 row consisting of 4 to 6 spots across the centre of the disk, some- 

 times obsolete.; Scutellum more or less spotted with red at the 

 base. Elytra ; Clavus more or less spotted with red ; Corium more 

 or less spotted with red, frequently towards and at the apex between 

 the 1st nerve and claval suture reddish, the colouring between the 



