444 CAPS IN A. 



upper margin of the eyes ; hinder margin keeled ; Clypeus convex, 

 apex and antenniferous processes in a line with the middle of the 

 under half of the eyes ; Face ; central lobe long, convex, somevrhat 

 pointed ; side lobes short, nari'ow. Antemice almost as long as the 

 body ; 1st joint somewhat cylindrical, about as long as the head ; 

 2ad stout, gradually thickened to the apex, more than 3 times the 

 length of the 1st ; 3rd and 4th filiform, together about as long as 

 the 2nd, 3rd a little longer than the 4th. Et/es somewhat large, 

 prominent, viewed from above hemispherical, from the side longish 

 oval. Rostrum short, reaching to the 3rd pair of coxa?; 1st joint 

 free, as long as the head. 



Thorax. — Pronotum short, trapeziform, twice as broad on the 

 posterior margin as long ; anterior margin straight, formed into a 

 collar ; angles slightly rounded ; sides slightly convex ; hinder angles 

 sliort, rounded ; posterior margin concave in the middle, rounded 

 towards and at the hinder angles ; disk convex, deflected to the head, 

 with 2 callosities in front. ScuteJlum convex, slightly raised above 

 the clavus, with a transverse channel near the base. Elytra longer 

 than the abdomen, very slightly elevated posteriorly ; cuneus and 

 membrane deflected ; Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Corium 

 flattish convex ; Cuneus triangular, base as long as the anterior 

 margin, the latter rounded, leaving a small but distinct notch at the 

 base. Sternum : JProsternum ; xyphus triangular, equilateral, sides 

 keeled ; Mesosternum short, convex, horizontal, with a central channel ; 

 posterior margin convex, reflexed, slightly indented in the middle ; 

 Metasternum in the centre, with a callosity. Legs ; tarsi long, slender • 

 3rd joint of the 3rd pair longest, 1st almost as long as the 2nd. 



Species 1. — Systratiotus niguitus. 



PiiyTOCOiiis NiGKiTA, Fall. Hem. Succ. i, 07, 39 (1829). 



Capsus nigritus, H. Schf. Nom. Ent. i, 52 (1835) ; //. Schf. Wanz. vi, 

 45, fig. 601 (1842); Sahib. Geoc. Feu. 116, 56 

 (1818) ; Eirschb. Caps. 69, 73, & 113 (1855). 



Capsus (Capsus) nigkita, Flor, llhyn. Liv. i, 547, 44 (1860). 



PoLYMEKUs* NIGRITUS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 391, 2 (1861). 



Black, very thickly clothed with short, depressed, golden-yellow 

 hairs. Tihia: with 2 yellowish or reddish-yellow bands. 



* Polymer us, a gcuus of Dipt era, Wied. (1821). 



