458 CAPSINA. 



Species ,2. LYGUS LUCOEUM. 



CAPSUS LUCOEUM, Meyer, Caps. 46, 3, tab. 6, fig. 2 (1843). 



CONTAMINATUS, Kirschb. Caps. 65, 66 (1855). 

 LYGUS LUCOEUM, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 275, 9 (1861). 



Bluish or yellowish-green, clothed with very fine, depressed, pale 

 yellowish- white hairs. TiUce ; 3rd pair bent, and with short, 

 somewhat spinose, black hairs. 



Head. Antennae yellowish or greenish-yellow ; apex of the 2nd 

 joint, and 3rd and 4th, brown ; 3rd at the base narrowly pale. Eyes 

 black. . Hostrum yellowish or greenish-yellow, tip piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum thickly punctured, and somewhat finely wrinkled 

 transversely ; disk frequently with 2 to 4 blackish, longitudinal 

 spots. Scutellum wrinkled transversely, somewhat depressed in the 

 centre next the transverse channel. Elytra somewhat diaphanous, 

 thickly punctured and finely wrinkled transversely ; near the base 

 and between the 1st nerve and claval suture frequently a short 

 brown streak ; Cuneus; basal inner angle generally with a small brown 

 spot ; Membrane pale ; between the apex of the cuneus and the inner 

 cell-nerve a curved, brown streak, and below the apex of the outer 

 cell-nerve a longitudinal, brown streak; inner marginal nerve 

 piceous at the base ; cell-nerves whitish, outer cell-nerve exteriorly 

 margined with brown; cells yellowish-brown, their apex brown. 

 Sternum greenish. Legs greenish or yellowish-green ; tibia ; 3rd pair 

 bent, and with short, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; tarsi yellowish ; 

 apex of the 3rd pair brown ; claws brownish-yellow. 



Abdomen; upper and underside greenish. 



Length, 2J lines. 



Apparently somewhat scarce. A few specimens have been 

 taken at West Cowes, Isle of "Wight, on Eupatoria cannabinum, in 

 September. 



Species 2. LYGUS SPINOL.E. 



CAPSUS SPINDLY, Meyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 86 (1841) ; Caps. 45, 2, tab. 



1, fig. 2 (1843). 

 LYGUS Fieb. Europ. Hera, 275, 8 (1861). 



