LYGID.E. 455 



Species 3. ORTHOPS PASTINAC^E. 



LYG^EUS PASTINAC^E, Fall. Mon. Cirn. 86, 57 (1807). 

 PHYTOCORIS PASTINAC^B, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 94, 35 (1829). 

 CAPSUS Sahib. Geoc. Een. 113, 48 (1848). 



LUCIDTJS Kirschb. Caps. 68, 71, & pp. 113 & 131 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) PASTINACJS, Flor, Bliyn. Liv. i, 523, 30 (1860). 

 ORTHOPS PASTINACJG, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 278, 3 (1861). 



Bluish or yellowish-green, clothed with short, fine, depressed, yellow 

 hairs ; thighs ; 3rd pair without black or brown rings, rarely 

 with 2 spots on the upperside. * 



Head. Antenna ; 1st joint green, the base and apex, or the apex 

 only, narrowly brown ; 2nd brownish-yellow, apex and 3rd and 4th 

 joints brown. Rostrum greenish or yellowish-green ; tip piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum thickly and deeply punctured ; callosities pale 

 brownish-yellow, their hinder margins brown, rarely with a small 

 round brown spot at the hinder angles. Scutellum yellowish-green, 

 finely wrinkled transversely. Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin pitchy 

 black ; disk pale brownish, more or less piceous between the scutellar 

 angle and the apex ; Corium ; anterior margin bluish or yellowish- 

 green ; at the apex, between the 1st nerve and the inner margin, a 

 large brown spot ; Cuneus green, somewhat paler at the base ; Mem- 

 brane iridescent, almost transparent ; below the apex of the outer 

 cell a narrow, longitudinal, pale-brown streak, extending to the 

 apex of the anterior margin ; cell-nerves greenish-yellow. Sternum ; 

 centre pitchy black. Legs bluish or yellowish-green ; thighs ; 3rd 

 pair rarely with 2 brown spots on the upperside next the apex ; 

 tibia narrowly brown at the apex, with short, stout, somewhat 

 spinose, black hairs ; 1st pair at the base generally with a short, 

 brown streak down the outside ; tarsi brownish-yellow ; apex of the 

 3rd joint, and claws, black. 



Abdomen ; upperside black ; connexivum bluish or yellowish- 

 green ; underside bluish or yellowish-green. 



Length, If 2 lines. 



A common species, from May to September, by beating or sweep- 

 ing herbage. It has been taken at Mickleham, Strood, Sauderstead, 

 and other places in the London district. Scarborough (Wilkinson). 



This insect rarely retains its colour after death, and generally 

 changes to yellow, grayish, or pale brownish-yellow. 



