434 CAPSINA. 



Species 3. HETEROCORDYLUS TIBIALIS. 



CAPSTJS TIBIALIS, Hahn, Wanz. i, 128, Eg. 66 (1831) ; Kirschb. Caps. 



85, 113 (1855). 



SPAETH, Boh. in lit. (Eieber). 

 HETEROCOKDYLTJS TIBIALIS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 290, 2 (1861). 



Black, thickly covered with whitish scales and short, fine, depressed, 

 yellowish-hairs; tibice reddish -yellow, base and apex black- 

 brown. 



Head. Grown with a fovea near each eye, adjoining the hinder 

 marginal keel. Antennae ; 2nd joint slightly clavate, 4th frequently 

 reddish-brown. Rostrum piceous, 4th joint black. 



Thorax. Pronotum finely wrinkled transversely ; callosities 

 prominent. Scutellum finely wrinkled transversely. Elytra finely 

 shagreened ; Membrane piceous ; between the apex of the cuneua 

 and the inner cell-nerve a whitish patch ; below the latter, and 

 extending to the apex of the anterior margin a brown patch ; cell- 

 nerves brown, apex of the inner one whitish ; outer cell, and some- 

 times the whole or a portion of the inner one brown. Sternum in 

 the middle brownish-yellow. Legs ; coxce and fulcra dusky-yel- 

 lowish ; ihigJis black ; tibia reddish-yellow, base and apex black- 

 brown ; tarsi and claws black. 



Length, 2-J lines. 



Not uncommon on broom, at Croydon, Shirley, Dartford Heath, 

 Birch Wood, Wimbledon, &c., in June and July. 



Genus 5. ATRACTOTOMUS, Fieb. 



Short, somewhat narrow, sides in the $ almost parallel, in the ? 

 slightly oval. 



Head pointed, short, almost vertical in front, 2 to 2 times as 

 broad across the eyes as long ; Crown convex ; Clypeus convex, very 

 much deflected, apex almost level with the anterior margin of the 

 eyes ; antenniferous processes very short, in a line with the lower 

 margin of the eyes ; Face pointed ; central lobe long, convex, slightly 

 prominent ; side lobes short, narrow. Antennas shorter than the 



