422 CAPSINA. 



Species 1. STHENAKUS ROTERMUNDF. 



CAPSUS K.OTEKMUNDI, Scholtz, Arb. und Veraud. sp. 42 (1846). 



(CAPSUS) ROTERMTJNDI, Flor, RhyD. Liv. i, 594, 75 (1860). 

 STHENABUS ROTERMUNDI, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 310, 2 (1861). 



Gray or gray-greenish, thickly clothed with fine, depressed, silver 

 white hairs. 



Head yellowish ; Grown with a small black spot on each side of the 

 centre, between the eyes, or with a broad, dark-brown streak ex- 

 tending to the apex of the clypeus ; Face ; central and side lobes 

 black. Antennae yellowish or pale brownish-yellow. Eyes black. 

 Mostrum brownish ; 4th joint piceous, pale at the base. 



Thorax. Pronotum gray-yellowish or gray-greenish, with a black 

 or brown streak on the callosities ; sides narrowly pale or dark 

 gray ; anterior margin broadly yellowish ; across the callosities 

 a broad black streak generally divided in the centre by a short 

 narrow yellowish line. Scutellum ; anterior portion dark gray ; 

 basal angles narrowly brownish-yellow ; hinder portion yel- 

 lowish. Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin and suture, except the 

 base of the latter, narrowly black ; apex narrowly dark gray ; disk 

 generally pale brownish-yellow ; Corium ; anterior margin at the 

 apex dark gray ; disk pale grayish -yellow, 1st nerve reddish ; near 

 the claval suture a short pale streak about midway between the 

 apex and a line drawn to the scutellar angle ; or the 1st nerve 

 broadly pale, with a broad streak on either side, and a large, trian- 

 gular patch at the inner posterior angle, dark gray ; Cuneus bright 

 red, base more or less broadly white ; Membrane dark gray, irides- 

 cent ; below tbe apex of the cuneus a roundish white spot, and 

 below the apex of the outer cell a short blackish streak ; inner 

 marginal nerve brown ; cell-nerves white ; apical half of the outer 

 cell and the inner one blackish. Sternum ; Prosternum yellowish ; 

 Mesosternum ; sides reddish or reddish-yellow ; centre black ; Meta- 

 sternum yellowish. Legs whitish or pale yellowish-white; thighs 

 frequently reddish on the underside ; 1st and 2nd pairs with 1 

 row, 3rd with 2 rows of brown spots on the underside ; upper 

 margin with 2 brown spots, one a little before and the other at 

 the apex, in each of which, in the 1st and 2nd pairs is set a single, 

 stout, erect, spinose hair; 3rd pair with 2 hairs in each; tibia 



