MIRARIA. 230 
As regards their systematic arrangement, I have advanced no new method (a course 
impossible by the exigencies of time and the scope of an extensive faunistic work), but 
have followed in most essential particulars the classificatory scheme formulated by 
Dr. Reuter in 1875, which is in conformity with the views and practice of the late 
Dr. Stal, and thus in unison with the system adopted for the previous families. 
A superficial acquaintance with American Capside would lead, and has inclined 
excellent authorities, to the opinion that European genera are largely included in the 
fauna. A better acquaintance, however, supported by sufficient material, abundantly 
proves that the family is not peculiar in this respect, but in America possesses a 
distinctive faunistic character, embracing a number of well-marked and often extremely 
specialized genera. 
Subfam. CAPST NA. 
Capsina (part.), Reuter, Bih. Vet.-Ak. Handl. ui: 1, p. 4 (1875); Hem. Gymn. Eur. t. 1. p. 15 
(1878); Berg, Hem. Argent. p. 120 (1879). 
Myridina, Berg, Hem. Argent. p. 117 (1879). 
In this subfamily the ocelli, as stated by Dr. Reuter, are “haud distinguendi.” 
All comparative generalizations as to the geographical distribution of the Capsine 
are rendered for a long time hopeless by the little attention hitherto paid-to their 
collection in tropical regions. When we reflect that the Capsine constitute one of 
the most numerous group of insects, and that collectors have been enabled, regardless 
of time and money, and at their own risk of health and life, to add to our knowledge of 
the insect world, we must deplore the circumstance that size and beauty have been the 
incentives to their exertions, and that it remains for another generation to deal with 
some of the obscure, but most numerous and instructive, families of insects. 
Division MIRARIA. 
Miraria, Reuter, Bih. Vet.-Ak. Handl. ii: 1, p. 5 (1875, incl.). 
In this division I recognize the genera whose species have the head distinctly 
longitudinally sulcated between the eyes, and the antenne inserted on the lateral 
margins of the head in front of the eyes. 
I have allowed this division to embrace considerable diversity of generic form; but in 
dealing alone with one fauna, or rather with a portion only of one fauna, I have thought 
it best to avoid, as far as possible, increased divisional separation, until the family, as a 
whole, is generally more worked and better known. 
The Miraria have probably an almost world-wide distribution; and in America 
we know that they are distributed throughout both the Nearctic and Neotropical 
Regions. 
30* 
