422 CAPSID.E. 



species imlcnoxvn to the writer. 

 1363. Systellonotus palpator, Kirl-. Tr. E. S. 1902, p. 247. 



" Blackish-browii, shining; anteuuso stramineous, more or less 

 infuscate ; legs pallid, more or less infuscate, basal two-thirds of 

 posterior femora dark ; elytra fuscous, cuneus and lateral margins 

 darker ; a small spot at junction of clavus, corium, and membrane, 

 and two large corial spots (at base and apex, the latter extending a 

 little on to the clavus) white ; membrane pale fuscous, a white 

 central transverse band ; venter black. 



" d . Body sparsely and shortly pilose ; head (with eyes) 

 broader than long, short behind the eyes, the latter prominent ; 

 antennae not incrassate, second joint four times as long as first, 

 two-thirds longer than third.*' 



Length 31- millim. 



Hah. 8ind ; Karachi (Jide KirTccddy). 



Mr. Kirkaldy does not mention any sulcatiou to the head, a 

 character of SiisteUonotus. 



Division MI MARIA. 



Miraria, Rent. Hem. Gi/mn. Eur. iii, p. 565 (1883) ; Dist. Biul. Ccntr.- 

 Am., Rhynch. i, p. 235 (1883), 



In this division, as I recognize it, tlie head is always porrect and 

 well developed in front of the antenniferous tubercles and distinctly 

 longitudinally impressed or sulcate between the eyes; the pronotum 

 is not distinctly transversely constricted, nor does it exhibit distinct 

 anterior and posterior lobes ; the basal joint of the antennae is 

 usually hirsute, but this is not an invariable character. 



I now also include in this division the Neotropical genera 

 Jacchinns, Dist., and Picas, Dist. 



Synopsis of Genera. 



A. Head elongate, longer than broad. 



a. Basal margin of pronotum concavely 



sinuate, exposing base of mesonotum . . MEGALOCEHiEA, p. 424. 



b. Basal margin of pronotum truncate, base 



of mesonotum not exposed. 

 a. Uostrum either not passing or not 

 reaching posterior coxae. 

 a' . Pronotum and scutellum distinctly 



punctate Miris, p. 423. 



h'^. Pronotum and scutellum impuuctate Matenesius, p. 425. 

 h. Rostrum passing posterior coxce Rhinomiris, p. 426. 



B. Head transverse, about as long as broad. 



a. Rostrum reaching orpassingposteriorcoxse Megaccelum, p. 427. 



b. Rostrum not passing intermediate coxte. 

 a. Pronotum distinctly punctate. 



a' . Body elongate, not pilose above, 

 lateral pronotal angles subpromi- 

 nent. 

 a". First joint of antennae about as 



