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distinctly transversely impressed and narrowed at about one-third 

 from anterior margin, remaining two-thirds moderately convex and 

 distinctly declivous from base, the lateral margins a little rounded, 

 basal margin truncate, anterior margin moderately convex ; scutelluna 

 longer than broad ; hemelytra extending to about the base of the 

 penultimate abdominal segment ; rostrum reaching the posterior 

 coxcC, basal joint stoutest and reacliing middle of head, legs long and 

 slender, femora incrassated at apices, anterior legs with the tibiae as 

 long as femora, intermediate and posterior legs with the tibiae dis- 

 tinctly longer than femora. 



Taprohanus gravelyi, sp. n. 



Shining ochraceous ; apical joint of antenna) black, its apex 

 white ; head smooth, glabrous ; eyes black ; pronotum thickly coarsely 

 punctate, the anterior area elevated, depressed interiorly, a little 

 nodulose at middle of anterior margin, basal margin narrowly lami- 



Tai'kobanus gravkjai. 



nate ; hemelytra pale ochraceous, the corium a little darker ; femora 

 finely spotted with black, the incrassated apices pale testaceous, tibia) 

 and tarsi fuscous. Long. 7 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon; Peradeniya (F. H. Gravely). 



Capys malacaipus (Faun. B. I. Rbyncli. vol. iv. p. 490), 

 Capyella horni, Bredd. Deutsch. Ent. Zeitscbr. 1907, p. 37. 



