478 CAPSINA. 



Species 1. DICHROOSCYTUS RUFIPENNIS. 



PHYTOCORTS RUFIPENNIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 92, 31 (1829) ; Zett. Ins. 



Lap. 274, 16 (1839). 

 CAPSUS H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 50, fig. 610 (1842); Sahib* 



Geoc. Fen. 105, 31 (1848) ; Kirschb. Caps. 



55, 48 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) RUFIPENNIS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 489, 12 (1860). 

 DICHROOSCYTUS Fied. Europ. Hem. 269, 1 (1861). 



Bed, or reddish-yellow, clothed with fine, short, depressed, pale yellow 

 hairs, intermixed with black ones. 



Head yellowish-green. Antennae yellowish-green. Eyes brown. 

 "Rostrum greenish, tip brown or black. 



Thorax. Pronotum yellowish-green. Scutellum reddish or orange- 

 red ; apex, and frequently a central line, yellowish. Elytra : Corium; 

 anterior margin broadly greenish, or greenish-yellow, the colour 

 generally spreading for a little way upon the disk as it approaches 

 the middle ; Cuneus ; anterior margin narrowly greenish, or greenish- 

 yellow ; Membrane pale, cell-nerves red. Sternum pale greenish- 

 yellow. Legs yellowish-green or greenish-yellow ; tibice with short, 

 pale brown, somewhat spinose hairs ; apex brownish ; tarsi ; apex of 

 the 3rd joint, and claws, brownish. 



Length, 2f lines. 



Several specimens have been beaten from Pinus sylvestris at 

 Dartford Heath and Shirley, in July and August ; Mickleham, and 

 Esher (Dr. Power). 



FAMILY 19. HALTICOCORIDjE. 



Genus \. HALTICOCORIS.* 



Very short, oval. Elytra frequently without cuneus and membrane, 

 sometimes without clavus. 



Head long, pointed, vertical in front, viewed from above twice as 

 broad across the eyes as long ; Crown convex, forming a continuous 

 curve to the apex of the face ; hinder margin between the eyes with 

 or without a narrow keel ; Clypeus long, convex ; apex in a line with 



, good at leaping, icopig, a bug. 



