448 CAPSINA. 



deflected to the head. Scutellum triangular, almost equilateral ; raised 

 above the clavus with a transverse channel near the base, the basal 

 portion concealed beneath the posterior margin of the pronotum ; 

 sides slightly convex. Elytra horizontal ; cuneus and membrane 

 considerably 4 deflected ; Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; 

 Corium flattish convex ; Cuneus triangular, the base almost equal in 

 length to the anterior margin. Sternum : Prosternum ; xyphus trian- 

 gular ; flattish convex ; somewhat pointed ; the sides margined ; 

 Mesosternum short, very broad in front, convex ; posterior margin 

 keeled, almost straight ; Metasternum obtuse angled ; somewhat 

 prominent. Legs ; tarsi of the 3rd pair of almost equal length. 



Species 1. CAMPTOBROCHIS PUNCTULATUS. 



PHYTOCORIS PUNCTULATUS, Fall. Mon. Cim. 87, 58 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. i, 



95, 36 (1829) ; Meyer, Caps. 103, 92, tab. 

 4, fig. 2 (1843). 



CAPSUS H. Schf. Nora. Ent. i, 52 (1835) ; Kirschb. 



Caps. 67, 70 (1855). 



CAPSUS (CAPSUS) PUNCTULATUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 532, 35 (1860). 



CAMPTOBHOCHIS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 248, 2 (1861). 



Brownish ochreous -yellow, deeply but remotely punctured, the 

 punctures brown ; tibiae with 2 brown rings. 



Head. Crown; hinder margin yellowish- white. AntenncB pale 

 brownish-yellow, apex of the 2nd joint brown. Rostrum, brownish- 

 yellow, tip brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum sometimes pale pitchy brown ; callosities 

 anteriorly yellowish- white, posteriorly brown. Scutellum pitchy 

 brown ; a central line, the basal angles, and sometimes the sides, 

 narrowly yellowish-white. Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; Corium ; 

 anterior margin yellowish ; disk with a more or less large and dis- 

 tinct brown spot in the middle, opposite to the scutellar angle ; 

 Cuneus punctured ; anterior margin yellowish ; before the apex 

 a broad, transverse, brown patch, not reaching across the anterior 

 margin ; base pale yellowish- white ; Membrane very pale gray, almost 

 transparent; cell-nerves brown. Legs yellowish; thighs; 3rd pair 

 with a brown or black spot on the upperside, a little before the 

 apex ; tibice with 2 brown rings, one near the base, the other before 

 the middle ; frequently in the 1st pair these are indistinct or entirely 



