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Species 1. LYGUS PABULINUS. 



CIMEX PABULINUS, Lin. F. S. 974 (1761); S. N. 727, 83 (1767). 



Minis Fab. S. R. 254, 5 (1803). 



PHYTOCORIS PABULINUS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 79, 4 (1829); Zett. Ins. 



Lap. 272, 2 (1839). 



CAPSUS AFFINIS, Meyer, Caps. 48, 6, tab. i, fig. 5 (1843). 

 PHYTOCORIS AFFINIS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 116, 93 (1845). 

 CAPSUS PABULINUS, Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 101, 21 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 



57, 52 (1855). 



CAPSUS (CAPSUS) PABULINUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 507, 22 (1860). 

 LYGUS PABULINUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 276, 30 (1861). 



Elongate, somewhat oval. 



Pale green or greenish-yellow, clothed with fine, short, depressed, 

 white hairs. 



Head. Antenna as long as the body, green or greenish-yellow ; 

 apex of the 2nd joint, and 3rd and 4th, brown. Eyes black. Rostrum 

 greenish, tip brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; callosities joined in front by a short trans- 

 verse keel; disk thickly and finely punctured. Scutellum ; basal 

 portion coarsely, hinder portion finely, wrinkled transversely. 

 Elytra : Clavus and Corium finely punctured ; Membrane pale 

 fuscous, iridescent ; between the apex of the cuneus and inner cell- 

 nerve a somewhat curved streak, and below the cells a longitudinal 

 streak, brown ; inner marginal nerve brownish-yellow at the base ; 

 cell-nerves green ; apex of the outer cell generally with a small brown 

 spot. Sternum green. Legs greenish-yellow ; tibia with fine, short, 

 somewhat spinose, yellowish hairs ; tarsi brown ; 3rd joint blackish ; 

 claws brownish-yellow. 



Abdomen ; upper and underside green. 



Length, 2f 3 lines. 



An abundant species from June to September, on bushes generally, 

 and by sweeping amongst grass, &c. It has occurred at Sander- 

 stead, Tunbridge Wells, and other places in the London district. 

 New Forest (Marshall). 



