454 CAPSINA. 



Species 2. ORTHOPS CERVINUS. 



CAPSUS CERVINUS, H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 57, fig. 617 (1841) ; Meyer, Caps. 



103, 91 (1843) ; Kirschb. Caps. 61, 60 (1855). 

 ORTHOPS CERVINUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 278, 5 (1861). 



Grayish-yellow,*generally with a faint reddish tinge ; clothed with 

 fine, short, depressed yellow hairs. Thighs mostly with 2 

 brownish or reddish rings next the apex. 



Head. Antennae greenish or yellowish ; 2nd joint at the apex, 

 and 3rd and 4th, blackish ; base of the 3rd yellowish. Rostrum 

 yellowish, tip brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum thickly and finely punctured ; hinder angles 

 generally brown. Scutellum frequently reddish or brownish-red ; 

 apex yellowish white, on each side of the centre a longitudinal blackish 

 streak joined together next the transverse channel. Elytra : Clavus; 

 inner margin as far as the apex of the scutellar angle, and the apex 

 narrowly blackish. Corium; anterior margin narrowly blackish; disk 

 at the apex thickly spotted with brown or reddish, more or less con- 

 fluent ; Cuneus pale yellowish or grayish-yellow ; apex brown or red 5 

 Membrane pale gray, iridescent ; below the apex of the cuneus a 

 blackish streak and another curved one extending from below the 

 apex of the outer cell to the middle of the anterior margin, the 

 latter streak is generally divided in the centre ; cell-nerves yellowish ; 

 apex of the cells blackish. Sternum yellowish. Legs yellowish ; 

 thighs, 3rd pair with 2 red or brownish rings next the apex ; tibice 

 with short, somewhat spinose, brown hairs ; apex frequently narrowly 

 pale brownish or reddish ; tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint brown ; claws 

 red-brown. 



Abdomen yellowish underneath. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Very abundant from July to September by sweeping and beating 

 herbage. It has occurred at Mickleham, Strood, and other places in 

 the London District. Scarborough (Wilkinson). 



