1878.] 3.31 



the eyes, pilose, first joint stoiit, reaching far in front o£ the head, 

 second thickened towards the apes, third and fourth slender and to- 

 gether much shorter than the second. Prouotum broadly convex, 

 flattish on the disc, and with a distinct callus on each side anteriorly ; 

 posterior breadth nearly double the length and more than double the 

 anterior breadth ; distinctly collared ; sides distinctly margined and 

 subreflexed ; hind margin slightly overlapping the scutellum. Scu- 

 tellum nearly equilateral, with a sharp, narrow, transverse depression 

 near the base ; apex shortly spinosely pointed. Hemielytra with a 

 longish triangular cuneus, with well marked fracture. Tibise scarcely 

 spinulose. First joint of tarsus stout, about twice as long as the 

 second. 



Resembles in facies Capsus, F., Fieb. {Derceocoris, Kirsch., Eeut.). 

 Tyjje, M. capsoides. 



34. M. capsoides, n. sp. 



Shining testaceous-brown, more or less tinted and clouded with wine-red ; an- 

 tennae, apex of rostrum, of femora, and of tibiae, tarsi, and a patch on the corium 

 in front of the cuneus, usually more intense in colour ; sides of pronotum and a line 

 from the clypeus to the apex of the scutellum (which on the pronotum and scutellum 

 is more or less unpunctured) generally yellowish-testaceous. Head sub-inigose, 

 irapunctate, clothed with fine pale hairs ; antennae with many black hairs, the slender 

 last two joints together about one-half the length of the second ; side margins of 

 the pronotum callous, and distinctly concave, the collar and the callosities on the 

 disc impunctate ; scutelhim transversely rugose, punctures rather obsolete. 



<? ? . Length, 7 — 8 mm. ; breadth, 3 — 3^ mm. 



Captain Broun. Four specimens, more or less broken. Judging 

 from them the species varies much in intensity of coloration. 



85. II. Scotti, 11. sp. 



Shining reddish-brown, with variable blackish and bone-white markings, very 

 sparingly clothed with tine pale hairs ; clypeus and vertex with various u-regular 

 spots often confluent, pronotum with irregular spots anteriorly and a more or less 

 distinct transverse band posteriorly, and sometimes some small spots of the scutellum, 

 pitchy-black ; hemielytra pitchy-black, clavus at the apex with more or less confluent 

 spots, corium with the basal half of front margin broadly and an irregular band 

 extending from the base to the inner apical angle, cuneus (except the apex and some 

 spots), more or less distinctly creamy -white ; membrane whitish, spotted with fus- 

 cous ; hind margin of the pronotum and indications of a central longitudinal line 

 from clypeus to apex of scutellum, whitish or brownish-white ; legs pitchy-black ; 

 femora with apex and ring near it, tibiae with rings, whitish. Second joint of an- 

 tennae longer than the rather slender last two joints together ; sides of pronotum 

 rather acute, reflexed, nearly straight. (J ? . Length, 5 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Messrs. Hutton and Wakefield. Four specimens, very variable 



