CAPTS. 177 



Genus CAPYS. (Vol. IV, p. 489.) 



Some amount of conjecture has been formulated bv Bergroth in 

 relation to tbe generic namn Capys as here used. In 1907 

 Breddin proposed a new genus Capyella, which Bergroth correctly 

 surmised was only a synonym of CiqnjK, Stal (1865). Tbe name 

 Cajiys, however, was also used in the same year by Hewitson for a 

 genus of Lycsenidse. Bergroth states that Hewitson's name was 

 published a little earlier than Stal's and that, therefore, Capyella, 

 Bredd., could be used as a new name, but lie does not give us any 

 particulars as to the respective dates of publication, though 

 pro!)ably he has some information that is neither known in 

 Stockholm nor London where these names were proposed, and 

 where I have sought — unsuccessfully — to discover exact dates of 

 publication beyond that of tbe same year. I therefore do 

 not consider that Bergroth is justified in this alteration, and I do 

 not follow him. 



Capys malacaipus (Vol. IV, p. 490) ; Dist. Entomologist, xliv, 



p. 25 (1911). 

 Capyella honii, Bredd. Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 37. 



3758. Capys gracilis, Dist. Entomologist, xliv, p. 21.3 (1911). 



S . Head oehraceous, the lateral margins behind eyes and 

 a somewhat circular series of coarse punctures at base, enclos- 

 ing ocelli, black ; pronotum with the anterior area oehra- 

 ceous, remainder thickly blackly punctate, with the margins 

 and a central line oehraceous ; scutellum blackly punctate ; 

 corium ocliraceous, with dense, fine, black punctures; membrane 

 greyish-brown with scattered blackish markings ; connexivum 

 oehraceous with elongate black s])ots ; body beneath black, 

 abdomen with lateral marginal, elongate, oehraceous spots; coxae 

 oehraceous ; antennfe with the first and second joints oehraceous. 

 finely speckled with black, fourth joint black, first joint more 

 than twice as long as second, subequal in length to third, apex of 

 first joint distinctly incrassate, fourth short and moderatelv 

 thickened : head between antennae armed with a moderatelv long, 

 curved, spiniform porrect process; pronotum longer than broad, 

 elongate, only moderately widened posteriorly ; membrane 

 reaching apex of abdomen ; rostrum about reaching postei'ior 

 coxae, its apical joint black. 



5 Abdomen beneath testaceous; membrane not reaching apex 

 of abdomen. 



Length 6|-7 millim. 



IJah. Trichinopoly. 



Differs from C. malacaipvs, Stal, by the slightly shorter and 

 somewhat more robust spiniform process to the head, the 



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