418 CAPSINA. 



Head yellowish. Antenna yellowish. Rostrum yellowish ; tip 

 pieeous. 



Thorax. Pronotum entirely, or the anterior portion to behind the 

 callosities, yellowish, or ochreous yellow. Scutellum anteriorly, as 

 far as the transverse channel, reddish-yellow ; posterior portion 

 yellowish, or brownish-yellow. Elytra ; Clavus ochreous-red, or 

 reddish-yellow, or yellowish with several red spots more or less con- 

 fluent ; Corium ciliate ; ochreous-red or reddish -yellow, the colour 

 gradually becoming dark red as it approaches the apex, or the entire 

 disk red ; posterior margin very narrowly white ; Cuneus red ; base 

 next the anterior margin and apex narrowly white ; Meinbrane 

 blackish, iridescent ; between the apex of the cuneus and the inner 

 cell-nerve a triangular whitish patch, below which is a somewhat 

 W-shaped black streak ; cell-nerves reddish -yellow ; apex of both 

 cells black. Legs ; yellowish ; thighs next the apex frequently red- 

 dish-yellow, and with a few brown spots; tibice with black spots, 

 and longish, erect, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; apex narrowly 

 brownish ; tarsi pale brownish-yellow ; 3rd joint and claws brown. 



Length, 1^ line. 



Not very common. Taken at Dartford and Mickleham, in July, 

 by beating Acer campestre ? 



Species 9. PSALLUS VARIANS. 



CAPSUS VARIANS, H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 45, fig. 603 (1841). 



Meyer, Cap. 39 (1843). 

 PSALLUS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 309, 14 (1861). 



Reddish-yellow or yellowish-white, clothed with fine, depressed, 

 golden-yellow hairs, intermixed with black ones. 



Head, pale reddish-yellow ; Crown with a whitish central line. 

 Antennce yellowish ; 1st joint generally blackish at the base. Eyes 

 brownish-black. Rostrum pale brownish-yellow ; tip black. 



Thorax. J?ronotum pale yellowish-white, or reddish ; the anterior 

 margin, sides, and a central line pale yellowish- white. Scutellum red ; 

 a central line extending from the transverse channel to the apex, 

 and frequently the sides pale yellowish-white ; in yellowish-white 

 examples the basal portion orange-yellow, and 4 black spots along 

 the anterior margin. Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; Clavus ; inner 

 margin yellowish; disk very pale yellowish; Corium; anterior 



