228 APPENDIX. CAPSIDJE. 



Family CAPSID^E. (Vol. II, p. 412.) 



As was to be expected the enumeration of this family is largely 

 increased since Vol. II. was published in 1904. This is principally 

 owing to the number of species received from India since that 

 date, chiefly by the willing and great assistance of Dr. Annandale, 

 the Superintendent of the Indian Museum. Other ^Indian col- 

 lectors have also considerably helped to swell the list, and their 

 contributions are gratefully acknowledged in the following pages. 



I have nothing to add or to qualify in the introductory 

 remarks I wrote to this family (Vol. II, pp. 412-414). They have 

 received strong animadversions from Dr. Keuter, the well-known 

 specialist on the Capsidse, who seems to regard courteous diver- 

 gence of taxonomical opinion as a personal matter and to have 

 replied in that spirit. I regret the incident, but have nothing to 

 retract or to withdraw. No one more admires Eeuter's life- 

 labour in the elucidation of this difficult family than myself, but 

 this does not constitute a responsibility to follow a classification 

 which I am unfortunately unable to understand adequately. 



G-enus EBUTIUS. 



(To follow Onomaus, Vol. II, p. 416.) 

 Ebutius, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 440 ( 1 99). 



Type, E. bellus, Dist. 



Distribution. Northern India. 



Head subequal in length to the pronotum, transversely impressed 

 behind the eyes, which are well separated from the anterior 

 margin of the pronotum, between the eyes distinctly longitudinally 

 sulcate, the disk moderately convex, obtusely attenuated in front 

 of the insertion of the antennae, where it is a lit.tle ridged and 

 excavated on each side ; antenniferous tubercles prominent ; first 

 joint of the antennae robust and about as long as the head, second 

 joint slender, nearly three times as long as the first, third and 

 fourth short, together longer than first ; rostrum reaching the 

 intermediate coxae; pronotum transversely constricted before 

 middle, this anterior area somewhat transversely striate at anterior 

 margin and with a distinct moderately transverse tubercle immedi- 

 ately in front of each side of the constriction, posterior area con- 

 vexly deflected from base, thickly punctate, the lateral margins 

 carinate and oblique, posterior lateral angles subprominent, basal 

 margin a little concave before scutellum, which is somewhat large 

 and triangular, and slightly foveate at each basal angle ; hem- 

 elytra a little more than twice as long as head and pronotum 

 together, clavus broad, cuneus elongately angulate, membrane 



