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Species 1 . PSALLUS DTLUTUS. 



PSALLUS DILUTUS (Meyer], Wien. Ent. Monats. ii, 338, 28 (1858); 

 Fieb. Europ. Hera. 305, 10 (1861). 



Very pale whitish-yellow, clothed with depressed, white hairs, inter- 

 mixed with somewhat erect, black ones. 



.Head yellowish. Antenna yellowish. Rostrum yellowish; tip 

 brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum in front yellowish. Elytra ; Membrane pale 

 fuscous ; a little below the apex of the cuneus a transverse brown 

 streak, sometimes interrupted, extending from in a line with the 

 apex of the outer cell to the anterior margin ; the latter narrowly 

 brown ; cell-nerves whitish ; cells yellowish ; apex of the outer 

 broadly and the inner entirely blackish. Legs; thighs very pale 

 whitish-yellow ; apex yellowish, spotted with black on the upper 

 and undersides, the upper margin with 3 or 4 black spots ; tibia 

 with black spots, and long, erect, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; 

 tarsi yellowish ; apex of the 3rd joint, and claws, brown. 



Abdomen underneath yellowish, with minute blackish spots along 

 the margin. 



Length, 1| 2 lines. 



We have only seen 2 examples, taken near Cobham "Wood, in 

 July, and supposed to have been beaten from oaks. 



Species 8. PSALLUS ROSEUS. 



LTG^EUS ROSEUS, Fab. S. R. 238, 178 (1803). 



PHYTOCORJS ROSEUS, Fall Hem. Suec. i, 101, 47 (1829) ; Zett. Ins. Lap. 



275, 26 (1839). 

 CAPSUS H. Scfif. Norn. Ent. i. 49 (1835); Wanz. iii, 71, 



fig. 287 (1836); Meyer, Caps. 67, 37 (1843); 



Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 107, 35 (1848) ; -Kinchb. Caps. 



96, 135 (1855) ? 



(CAPSUS) ROSETJS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 591, 73 (1860). 

 PSALLUS ROSEUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 305, 12 (1861). 



Eed, ochreous-red, or reddish-yellow, clothed with fine, depressed, 

 golden yellow hairs. 



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