1910. ] W.L. Distant: Rhynchota Malayana. III. 315 
Fam. REDUVIIDE. 
Sub-fam. Holoptiline. 
Genus PTILOCERUS. 
Ptilocerus, Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 34 (1831). 
Type, P. fuscus, Gray. 
Ptilocerus venosus. 
Maotys venosus, Walk. Cat. Het., vii, p. 88 (1873). 
Maotys guttifer, Walk. loc. cit., p. 89. 
Ptilocerus venosus, Dist., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), x, p. 192 
(1902). 
Ptilocerus ochraceous, Montand., Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung, v, 
p- 419 (1907). 
Hab.—Bangkok, Singapore, Borneo. 
Walker separated his two species on the very variable charac- 
ter of the number of marginal cells to the membrane, I have now 
Dr. Montandon’s authority for including his species in the syn- 
onymy. 
Fam. CAPSIDZ. 
Sub-fam. Isometopine. 
SKAPANA, gen. nov. 
Head broader than long, rounder in front with the apical 
margin laminately reflexed, the lateral margins laminately roundly 
produced in front of and a little before each eye and moderately 
reflexed; eyes large and prominent situate on each side of base, 
two distinct ocelli at base between the eyes; antenne with the 
first joint very short and thick, hidden beneath the head, second 
joint long, thickened, finely setose, about as long as pronotum, 
longer than third and fourth together ; rostrum reaching the inter- 
mediate coxe ; pronotum about twice as broad as long, the lateral 
margins rounded and moderately ampliately produced, their edges 
a little reflexed, the anterior angles obtusely angulately prominent, 
anterior margin truncate, posterior margin slightly sinuate; meso- 
notum exposed: scutellum elongate, about as long as breadth at 
base, convexly tumid, tranversely incised near apex; corium 
broad, the costal area laminately roundly produced ; clavus long 
and slender, reaching the apex of the scutellum ; cuneus large a 
little broader than long ; membrane somewhat short but consider- 
ably passing the apex of the abdomen, apical margin rounded, an 
obliquely transverse cell at base ; legs short and slender, the poste- 
rior femora strongly thickened. 
Allied to Turnebus Dist. 
