THE LITTLE-LINED PLANT-BUG. 
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or two little veins ; the legs are slender, and the shanks are 
bristled with little points. There are, in Massachusetts, a 
good many species belonging to this genus ; but, in my Cata- 
logue of the insects of this Commonwealth, they are included 
among the species of Capsus, which, indeed, they closely re- 
semble. 
The PJiytocoris Uneolaris (Fig. 85), or little- 
lined plant-hug, measures one fifth of an inch, 
or rather more, in length. It is an cxceed- 
ingly variable species. The males are gen- 
erally much darker than the females, being 
very deep livid brown or almost black above. The head 
is yellowish, with three narrow longitudinal reddish stripes ; 
the first joint of the antennae, the terminal half of the sec- 
ond, and the last two joints are blackish ; the beak is more 
than one third the whole length of the body, when folded 
beneath the breast, extends to the middle pair of legs, and 
is of a yellowish color, ringed with black ; the thorax, or that 
part of the body that comes immediately behind the head, is 
thickly covered with punctures, has a yellow margin, and five 
longitudinal yellow lines upon it, which often disappear on the 
back part ; the scutel, or escutcheon, a small triangular piece 
behind the thorax, and interposed between the bases of the 
wing-covers, is also margined with yellow, and has a yellow 
spot upon it in the form of the letter V, which is often imper- 
fect, so that only three small yellow spots are visible in the 
place of the three extremities of the letter ; the thick part of 
the wing-covers is brown, with the outer edge and the longi- 
tudinal veins sometimes pale or yellowish, and behind this 
thick part there is a large yellowish spot, on the posterior tip 
of which is a small black point ; the thin or membranous part 
of the wing-covers is shaded with dusky clouds ; the under 
side of the body is marked with a yellowish line or a longitu- 
dinal series of yellow spots on each side of the middle ; the 
legs are dirty brownish yellow, the thighs blackish at base, 
and with two black rings near the tip, and the extremities of 
Fig. 85. 
