18 Mr. W. L. Distant on Oriental Capsidge. 



Sampsigeramus pilosulus, sp. n. 



Head obscure dull ochraceous, thickly pilose ; antennas 

 piceous black, the second joint centrally broadly annulated 

 with dull ochraceous, eyes black; pronotum thickly strongly 

 pilose and darkly granulose, dull ochraceous, the disk more 

 or less discoloured and darker in hue ; scutellum somewhat 

 palely piceous, thickly strongly pilose and darkly granulose ; 

 corium somewhat palely piceous, the costal area and cuneus 

 pale ochraceous, strongly, thickly, darkly pilose; membrane 

 very pale fuliginous with paler mottlings, especially at the 

 apices of the cells ; body beneath black, finely pilose ; legs 

 ochraceous, annulated with black, the posterior femora much 

 more distinctly so than the anterior or intermediate femora, 

 tibial spinules long, black, placed in pairs at the black 

 annulations, apices of the tarsi black ; structural characters 

 as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon; Hakgata (Green). 



On Anaphalis oblonga, D. L. (E. E. Green). 



Ragmus, gen. nov. 



Head as long as broad, deflected anteriorly, eyes globular, 

 of moderate size, placed at base of head, scarcely projecting 

 beyond the anterior margins of the pronotum ; antenna} with 

 the first joint shorter than head, slightly thickened and with 

 two spinules, second joint more than three times as long as 

 first and spinulose ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; 

 pronotum at base more than twice as broad as long and less 

 than twice as broad as anterior margin; posterior margin 

 concave, exposing the mesonotum, two transverse callosities 

 before anterior margin, the lateral margins oblique ; scutel- 

 lum subtriangular ; corium (including cuneus) only slightly 

 longer than posterior tibise ; cuneus as broad at base as out- 

 wardly long and distinctly longly sparsely pilose ; membrane 

 considerably passing the abdominal apex ; legs of moderate 

 length, anterior and intermediate femora slightly, posterior 

 femora much more distinctly spinulose, tibia? distinctly, longly 

 spinulose ; posterior tarsi with the basal joint longest. 



Ragmus importunitas, sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous, probably more virescent in living speci- 

 mens; eyes and third and fourth joints of antennas piceous 

 black; head with two transverse darker impressions in front 

 of eyes and a more or less distinct central foveation near 



