LOPID,E. 475 



Species 1. LOPUS GOTHICUS. 



CIMEX GOTHICUS, Lin. F. S. 966 (1761) ; Scop. Ent. Cam. 131, 381 (1763); 



tin. S. N. 726, 72 (1767) ; Schrank, Enum. 283, 545 



(1781); Fab. Mantiss. ii, 305, 271 (1787). 

 LTGJEUS Wolff, Ic. Cim. 33, tab. 4, fig. 33 (1800). 

 CAPSUS Fab. S. R. 244, 20 (1803); Pang. F. G. 92, 15 



(1805); ffc//. Hem. Suec. i, 117, 4 (1829). 

 LOPUS Hahn, Wanz. i, 12, fig. 5 (1831) ; Meyer, Caps. 41, 5 



(1843); Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 100, 73 (1845); 



Kirschb. Caps. 37, 14 (1855) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 



266, 3 (1861). 



PHYTOCORIS GOTHICUS Burnt. Handb. ii, 271, 22 (1835). 

 CAPSUS (CAPSUS) GOTHICUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 479, 7 (1860). 



Black, clothed with long, erect, black hairs. Thighs entirely black. 



Head. Crown with a yellowish-white, or orange-red spot between 

 and close to the eyes. Clypeus ; side lobes generally brownish-red. 

 Antennae ; 1st and 2nd joints with long erect black hairs. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides narrowly red, sometimes reaching as 

 far as the hinder angles. Scutellum ; hinder portion red ; base, and 

 frequently a streak across the disk, next the transverse channel, and 

 angles, black. Corium shagreened ; anterior margin whitish, yellow- 

 ish or orange-red, the apex frequently narrowly dusky or black ; 

 Cuneus yellowish-white, orange-yellow, or orange-red ; apex, inner 

 margin, and inner basal angle, black ; Membrane black, between the 

 apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve narrowly pale ; inner 

 marginal and cell-nerves piceous. Sternum : Prosternum ; yellowish 

 or orange-yellow, narrowly margined with black ; xyphus yellowish, 

 or yellowish- white, sides narrowly black ; Meso- and Metasternuin 

 black. Legs ; 1st pair of coxse pale at the apex ; fulcra and thighs 

 black, the latter clothed with long, erect, black hairs ; tibice black, or 

 pitchy black ; in the latter case the apex darker, clothed with long, 

 fine, erect black hairs ; tarsi and claws black. 



Abdomen of the $ black, sides of the segments with a reddish 

 spot ; $ sides of the segments more or less broadly reddish or 

 orange-yellow. 



Length, 21 3 lines. 



This insect has occurred at Coombe, and also in the New Forest, 

 in June (Dr. Power). 



