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XIV. Memoii' wpon the Rliyncliotal family Capsidee Auctt. 

 By George Willis Kiekaldy, F.E.S. 



[Read December 4th, 1901.] 



Plates V and VI. 



Thanks to the gigantic labours of F. X. Fieber and O. M. 

 Renter, we have now a considerable knowledge of the 

 external morphology of the palsearctic forms, except those 

 inhabiting Japan and North-Eastern China. Good work 

 has also been effected upon the American fauna, and we 

 have at least a general acquaintance with the dominant 

 forms of the regions comprised. But of the Oriental, 

 Australian, and Ethiopian i-egions, there is only very 

 scattered and imperfect information, and it is a matter of 

 some little difficulty to present comprehensible descriptions 

 of new genera and species from them, as these are often 

 isolated, with little affinity to the forms of other regions, 

 as for example Platyngomiris coreoides and Bothriomiris 

 marmorahts now described. The great divisions instituted 

 by Renter for the paloearctic fauna, and very largely adopt- 

 able for North America, are often inadequate for the other 

 regions ; his Miraria for instance seem not to be so sharply 

 separable from his Capsaria in some extra-European genera. 

 The number of cells in the membrane moreover is a 

 character not I think to be too rigidly enforced ; for 

 Platyngoviiris is in its general structure undoubtedly a 

 " Capsarian," but has only one cell, while some at least of 

 the numerous genera now embraced by the " Bryocoraria " 

 appear to me to have little affinity with Bryocoris, Fallen. 

 I have recently had the good fortune of acquiring his 

 exotic collection of this family, from my friend Mr. A. L. 

 Montandon. I have also received some Indian material 

 from my friend Mr. Gerald C. Dudgeon, from which two 

 new genera and species are now described. The rest are 

 all from Mr. Montandon's collection, and are but a small 

 proportion of it, as only the more remarkable forms have 

 been selected. The types are all in my own collection. 

 Unless otherwise stated, the " length " of a bug is taken 

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