426 CAPSINA. 



Head. Antenna black ; base and apex of the 1st joint and apex 

 of the 2nd narrowly white ; 4th piceous. Rostrum ; 1st joint pieeous ; 

 2nd and 3rd reddish-yellow ; apex of the 3rd and 4th piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum very thickly and finely punctured posteriorly? 

 sometimes with a short reddish central line, not reaching to the 

 posterior margin, and with a small fovea on each side of the centre 

 between the callosities. Scutellum ; basal angles and sometimes a 

 central line reddish ; hinder portion very finely punctured. Elytra 

 very finely shagreened ; Clavus ; inner margin narrowly black ; 

 disk pitchy brown ; Corium ; anterior margin blackish ; disk pitchy 

 brown ; extreme base, and a narrow line between the apex of the 

 clavus and the inner margin of the clavus, paler ; Cuneus pitchy 

 brown ; base next the anterior margin narrowly pale ; Membrane 

 very pale pitchy brown ; between the apex of the cuneus and the 

 inner cell a whitish, triangular patch ; inner marginal nerve pale 

 brown ; cell-nerves yellowish-white ; inner cell and both margins of 

 the outer one more or less broadly margined with brown. Sternum 

 black. Legs ; coxa black, apex yellow ; fulcra yellow ; thighs 

 pitchy black or reddish-brown, apex yellowish or reddish-yellow ; 

 underside of the 2nd and 3rd pairs with an indistinct, longitudinal 

 row of spots ; tibice yellow, with large black spots, in each of 

 which is set a stout, somewhat spinose, black hair ; apex narrowly 

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



Length, 1 1| line. 



This insect might at first sight be mistaken for N. Bohemanni, 

 but is easily separated from it by the absence of the pale triangular 

 patch at the base of the corium, and the sometimes almost obsolete 

 inner cell. 



Taken at Deal, in August, by sweeping amongst dwarf sallows, 

 &c., in company with N. Bohemanni. 



Genus 2. AGALLIASTES, Fieb. 



Minute ; <$ somewhat parallel 5 $ suboval ; sometimes both sexes 

 with undeveloped elytra. Legs saltatorial ; thighs ; 3rd pair 

 stout, flattened on the sides. 



Head short, broad, vertical in front ; 2-J times as broad across the 

 eyes as long ; Croivn flattish convex, level with the upper margin of 

 the eyes, very much deflected ; hinder margin with a very narrow 



