470 CAPSINA. 



between the apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve, separated 

 by a transverse brownish pale line ; inner marginal nerve brown ; 

 cell-nerves whitish ; base of the outer cell pale. Sternum black ; 

 sides of the prosternum and posterior margin of the mesosternum 

 frequently reddish-yellow. Legs ; coxce and fulcra yellowish or 

 yellowish-white; thiglis clothed with somewhat erect, yellowish 

 hairs ; 1st and 2nd pairs reddish-yellow towards the apex, with one 

 or two longitudinal rows of black spots ; base on the upper 

 side narrowly black or brown ; 3rd, apical half black ; tibiae yellow, 

 with black spots and short, stout, spinose, black hairs ; base and 

 apex blackish ; tarsi and claws black. 



Abdomen underneath brownish-yellow ; base, a streak along the 

 sides, and the genital segments black. 



Length, 3 lines. 



$ Pale brownish-yellow, clothed with fine, somewhat erect, yel- 

 lowish hairs. 



Jlead yellow ; Crown with 2 large, somewhat oval, black patches 

 joined to the posterior margin of the eyes, and almost reaching to 

 the apex of the clypeus ; Face yellowish ; central lobe at the base, 

 and a short streak on each side, black. Antenna sparingly clothed 

 with long, erect, fine, brown hairs ; 1st joint brown, darkest at the 

 base, and with a few minute black spots ; . 2nd yellowish, apex, and 

 frequently the base, narrowly brown, spotted with black; 3rd 

 piceous or black, generally with a narrow yellowish ring near the 

 base ; 4th black. Eyes brown-black. Rostrum yellowish, tip black. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; anterior margin, a line down the centre, and 

 the posterior margin, narrowly yellowish, or reddish -y ellow ; sides 

 broadly yellowish or reddish-yellow ; callosities broadly and irregu- 

 larly margined with black ; disk punctured and wrinkled transversely. 

 Scutellum black ; sides and apex broadly reddish, with a paler central 

 line nearly extending from the transverse channel to the narrowly 

 yellow apex; or the apex broadly yellowish, central line paler. 

 Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin narrowly black ; Corium ; anterior 

 margin narrowly brown, apex next the inner basal angle of the cuneus 

 with a brown spot or short transverse streak ; Cuneus broadly brown 

 or black, base pale ; Membrane pale fuscous, with a large brownish 

 patch at the apex ; inner marginal nerve brown ; cell-nerves and cells 

 as in the J , frequently the outer cell-nerve is narrowly margined 

 with brown. Sternum reddish-yellow ; Mesosternum ; centre broadly 



