436 CAPSINA. 



Head. Antennae; 1st and 2nd joints black, clothed with short 

 black hairs, the latter stout, cylindrical-fusiform; 3rd and 4th 

 yellowish. Rostrum brown, tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum slightly deflected to the head. Elytra; 

 Clavus chestnut-brown, inner margin narrowly black ; Corium ; an- 

 terior margin dark brown, widest at the apex ; disk chestnut-brown ; 

 posterior margin very narrowly white ; Cuneus dark brown ; Mem- 

 brane blackish, along the inner margin of the cuneus narrowly 

 white ; cell-nerves whitish ; cells brownish. Legs ; thighs black ; 

 tibiae yellowish-white, with small black spots and short, somewhat 

 spinose, black hairs ; the base broadly, the apex narrowly, brown ; 

 tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint at the apex broadly, and claws, blackish. 



Length, 1 line. 



"We have only seen 2 ? examples of this insect, taken by Dr. Power, 

 one at Cowley, in July, and the other in Kew Gardens, in August. 



According to Flor, it is not uncommon on Pinus Abies, from 

 June to September. 



In form and size it closely resembles the Capsus magnicornis of 

 Hahn, ' Wanz.,' i, 130, fig. 67, and Meyer, Caps. 62, 29, t. 2, fig. 4, 

 but it is there described and figured as having black rings on the 

 hinder tibiae. 



Species 2. ATRACTOTOMUS PINI. 



Pitchy black or brown, clothed with very short, depressed, yellow 

 and white hairs intermixed, having a scale-like appearance, and 

 with longer and almost erect black ones. 



Head. ~ Antenna brownish-yellow or pitchy brown, apex of the 

 4th joint yellowish. Eyes large, dark brown, with a reddish-tinge. 

 Rostrum brownish-yellow ; 1st joint and base of the 2nd and 3rd 

 piceous ; 4th black. 



Thorax. Pronotum finely wrinkled transversely. Elytra ; Clavus 

 somewhat shagreened ; Corium ; anterior margin ciliate, the extreme 

 base generally, and sometimes a small portion of the anterior margin, 

 brownish-yellow ; Membrane diaphanous, iridescent, fuscous, darker 

 along the anterior margin ; below the apex of the outer cell a small 

 whitish spot, and along the inner margin of the cuneus narrowly 

 white ; cell-nerves piceous, apex of the outer cell-nerve yellowish ; 

 cells brown. Sternum black. Legs pitchy black or brown ; thighs 



