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CAPSID.Ti:. 



name Pompilidae must disappear, as it is foimded on Pomplliiis 

 (1798) and contains a genus Ceropales (17U6). These are only 

 examples ! 



i^ipiopsis of Suhfamilies. 



A. Head longitudinally impi-essed or suleated, or 



anteriorly excavated Mirhue. 



B. Head entire, neither sulcate nor excavated. 



a. Head without, or practically without, ocelli . . Oapsince. 



b. Head provided with distinct ocelli JsoKietopino:. 



Subfamily I. MIRINtE. 



Mirides, Ami/. 4'- Sorv. He?n. p. 277 (184:5). 



Myridina_. Be)-ff, Hem. Arfjent. p. 117 (1879). 



Capsinaj, Div. Miraria, Dist. Biol. Cc7itr.-Amer., Rhynch. i. p. i'3-") 



(1883). 

 Miraria, Iteut. Act. Sue. >Sc. Fenn. xiii, p. 505 (1884). 



This subfamily is universally distributed, and, as in the Capsidie 

 generally, comprises insects of most diverse facies. 



Division JfEllDOAIAIUA. 



Ilerdoniaria, Bid. A. M. N. II. (7) xiii, p. 103 (1904). 

 Pilophoraria (part.), Router, Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. xiii, p. 'A'AS (1884). 



Allied to the Mijrmecoraria, Eeut. 



Cuneus always discernible; head prominent, sometimes very 

 large, always with a distinct longitudinal impression bet^\■een the 

 eyes ; pronotum transversely constricted, the anterior area or 

 lobe somewhat broad and long, but never broadei", and generally 

 narrower, than the posterior area ; second joint of the antenna? 

 either very strongly or slightly apically incrassated ; scutellum 

 sometimes spined. 



The Nearctic and Neotropical genus Xenetus, Dist., I take as 

 typical of this division, and I also include the genera Ilerdonms, 

 Stal, Zacinthus, Dist., Zosipjnts, Dist., Minytus, Dist., ^aturnio- 

 miris, Kirk., Erotocoris, Dougl. & JScott, Systellonotas, Fieb., and 

 apparently Chrysorrhanis, Kirk.* 



Synopsis of Genera. 



A. Eyes well separated from anterior margiu of 



pronotum. 



a. Apex of second joint of antennae incrassate ; 



lateral margins of pronotum concavely 



sinuate ; hemelytra about twice as long- as 



head and pronotum together Isabellixa, p. 41-5. 



* Some of these genera are claimed by Bergroth (VVien. ent. Zeit. xvii, p. 35, 

 1893) as belonging to Renter's division Pilophoraria, to which thev have a 

 superficial resemblance, but are separable by the longitudinal sulcaticm to the 

 head. 



