460 CAPSINA. 



Head.- Crown with a longitudinal channel, deepest between the 

 eyes, and generally reaching to the apex of the clypeus. Antenna 

 greenish, or yellowish-green ; apex of the 2nd joint, and 3rd and 

 4th entirely, brown, base of the 3rd narrowly pale. Eyes black, 

 in the $ larger than in the $ , and their inner margins considerably 

 more approximate. Rostrum yellowish-green, tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum somewhat coarsely wrinkled transversely. 

 Scutellum finely wrinkled transversely, 'depressed in the centre next 

 the transverse channel. Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; Clavus ; 

 inner margin very narrowly pale brownish-yellow; disk finely 

 wrinkled transversely ; Corium finely wrinkled transversely ; apical 

 inner angle, with a small brown spot, wanting in the $ ; Cuneus ; 

 apex very narrowly fringed with black hairs ; Membrane blackish, 

 iridescent ; between the apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve 

 a somewhat triangular black patch, immediately followed by a large, 

 oval, yellowish one, in the middle of which, at the anterior margin, 

 is a lunate blackish patch ; below the apex of the cells a large, some- 

 what triangular, black patch, its apex extending into the broadly 

 black apical margin; exterior margin of the cells narrowly pale; 

 inner marginal nerve brown at the base ; cell-nerves yellowish ; 

 cells yellowish ; base of the outer cell in the $ and apex of both 

 broadly black. Sternum greenish-yellow. Legs greenish or greenish- 

 yellow; thighs; 3rd pair with 2 blackish bands before the apex, and 

 a few irregularly disposed black spots along the underside; tibia 

 slightly bent a little below the base, with small black spots, and 

 brownish-yellow spinose hairs ; tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint, sometimes 

 the apex only, black ; claivs brownish -yellow. 



Abdomen; upperside green, the centre more or less broadly 

 brown ; underside greenish -yellow, clothed with fine yellowish-white 

 hairs. 



Length, 2f 3 lines. 



Kirschbaurn's description has been drawn up from a single 

 <^, and Pieber in the appendix to the 'Europ. Hem.,' p. 392 says, 

 that it is synonymous with L. contaminatus. We have, however, 

 several examples, and they all accord with Kirschbaum's description, 

 and possess many points of difference sufficient to separate them from 

 that species. The principal differences are its narrower form, 

 the closer proximity of the eyes in the ^ , the entirely greenish or 

 greenish-yellow clavus, the black patch in the outer cell of the mem- 

 brane, extending along the outer margin nearly to the base, which 



