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PHYTOCORIS ALPINA, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 20, 100, tab. 10, fig. 24 (1845). 

 CAPSUS PRATENSIS. Sahib. Geoc. Fen. Ill, 43 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 64, 



64, & 112 (1855). 

 CAPSUS (CAPSUS) PRATENSIS (in pars), Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 517* 28 



(1860). 

 LYGUS PRATENSIS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 273, 1, & 391 (1861). 



Oval, shining. Gray-greenish, brownish-yellow, or reddish-brown, 

 sparingly clothed with short, silky, depressed, pale-yellowish 

 hairs. Cuneus ; apex generally broadly black. Thighs with 2 

 brown or red-brown rings near the apex. 



Head. Clypeus ; side lobes sometimes blackish; Face; central 

 lobe sometimes with a longitudinal black streak. Antennas reddish- 

 yellow or yellowish ; 1st and 2nd joints at the base sometimes nar- 

 rowly brown, 2nd at the apex broadly brown, extreme base pale ; 

 3rd and 4th brown, base of the 3rd generally narrowly reddish- 

 yellow or yellowish. Eyes brown. Rostrum reddish or brownish, 

 extreme base on the upperside generally, and tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum deeply and irregularly punctured, gray- 

 greenish, yellowish-brown or reddish-brown ; in front, to beyond the 

 callosities, pale-yellowish or pale brownish-yellow ; callosities some- 

 times margined in front with brown, and with a black puncture at 

 the inner angle of their posterior margin ; sides frequently pale ; 

 hinder angles sometimes black. Scutellum yellowish- white or yellow, 

 punctured and wrinkled transversely ; in the centre, next the trans- 

 verse channel, a short, broad, black streak, frequently furcate at the 

 apex, sometimes with a reddish or brownish streak along the sides ; 

 extreme apex generally pale. Elytra: Clavus ; anterior margin 

 black to beyond the scutellar angle, from thence to the apex 

 brownish, in brown-reddish examples, yellowish-brown ; nerve pale ; 

 disk deeply punctured ; Corium ; anterior margin narrowly black ; 

 apex with a more or less broad, transverse, wavy, red or black band, ter- 

 minating before it reaches the inner posterior angle ; disk thickly and 

 somewhat deeply punctured, deepest near the base ; Cuneus ; inner 

 margin red, apex sometimes brownish, or inner margin pale, outer 

 basal angle and apex broadly black ; Membrane pale fuscous, apical 

 margin broadly darker ; sometimes between the apex of the cuneus 

 and the inner cell-nerve a triangular blackish patch ; cell-nerves 

 whitish or red. Legs greenish -yellow, yellowish, or reddish-yellow ; 

 thighs with 2 brown or red-brown rings before the apex ; apex nar- 



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