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PCECILOCAPSUS MARMORATUS n. sp. 



Pale, yellow, short, moderately robust, hardl}' polished, 

 very minutely scabrous, most minutely and remotely pu- 

 bescent. Head polished, impunctate, nodding, strongly 

 convex in front, with the eyes quite small, pale brown, 

 tylus long, tapering, continuing almost the same curve as 

 the front; antennae moderately slender, long, rod-shaped, 

 and ver}^ gradually tapering after the apex of the second 

 joint, dark brown, the basal joint longer than the head, 

 marked with several irregular or diagonal yellow bands, 

 the second joint as long as the clavus, about uniformly 

 thick throughout, crossed by a narrow yellow band before 

 the middle, the third and fourth joints short, subequal, 

 each with a narrow whitish band at base; rostrum pale 

 yellow, very slender towards the tip, reaching beyond the 

 posterior cox^e, a little piceous both at base and tip. Pro- 

 notum a little wider than long, convex, marbled with dark 

 brown on the sides and posterior two-thirds, the lateral 

 margin slenderly carinate, with a slender brown line 

 on it and another above it, collum narrow but clearly de- 

 tined, bounded before and behind by a slender brown 

 margin, on the middle behind the callosities are two round, 

 brown dots, humeral angles more projecting than the lat- 

 eral margin, the posterior margin a very little curved, but 

 bending down towards the scutellum ; pleural flaps quite 

 narrow, scabrous. Legs yellow, the femora flecked with 

 brown, and the tibia? with the knees, two bands and the 

 tip also brown, apex of the tarsi, and the nails piceous. 

 Scutellum moderately convex, usually marked with two 

 longitudinal brown streaks, the tip minutely acuminate. 

 Underside whitish yellow. Hemielytra pale luteous, spread 

 with close golden-yellowish pubescence, irrorated and 

 marbled with brown in such a way as to leave numerous 

 dots and irregular spots of the surface exposed, the base 



