276 APPENDIX. CAPSID^E. 



antennae longly spiuulose interiorly ; lateral pronotal margins 

 with a few long hairs ; scutelluin and corium distinctly palely 

 pilose ; structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Peradeniya ( Green). 



Genus FULVIDIUS. 

 (To follow Serebceus, ante, p. 274.) 



Fulvidius, Popp. Act. Soc. Sclent. Fenn. xxxvii, no. 4, p. 20 (1909).* 



Type, F. punctatus, Popp. 



Distribution. Burma. 



" Body rather elongated, on the sides a little rounded, faintly 

 shining, the heinelytra, excepting the membrane, dull ; above with 

 very short semi-erect hairs, rather strongly punctured ; head 

 broad, broadly pointedly produced, somewhat vertical, seen from 

 the sides with the convex neck-shield evenly arched, about as long 

 as the base with the eyes broad, the " Ziigel " narrow, above and 

 beneath sharply margined ; eyes large, not extending to the 

 throat ; antennae inserted just before the eyes, first joint with 

 short adpressed hairs, the second clothed with short erect hairs 

 (remaining joints mutilated in type), first joint somewhat 

 produced, very little thickened, extending beyond apex of head, 

 the second half thinner and twice as long ; first joint of rostrum 

 indistinctly longer than the head ; the front very finely and rather 

 wrinkly punctured ; clypeus strongly shining, smooth, the pro- 

 notum thickly punctured, the callosities more finely and sparsely, 

 apical structure not developed ; the callosities very slightly convex, 

 extending backward rather beyond the middle of the disk, separated 

 from each other by a small longitudinal furrow, the hinder angles 

 rounded, not projecting, basal margin nearly straightly truncated, 

 the sides shallowy sinuous and for the whole length sharply 

 margined ; scutelluin rather convex, behind base somewhat flatly 

 impressed, thickly punctate ; hemelytrain 5 longer than abdomen, 

 clavus thickly, corium sparsely punctate, cuneus indistinctly 

 defined ; membrane with two cells ; hind wings with a rudi- 

 mentary cell-hook ; legs with finely adpressed hairs, without 

 spines, tibiae narrow, first joint of tarsi long." (Poppius.) 



3054. Fulvidius punctatus, Popp. Act. Soc. Scient. Fenn. xxxvii, 

 no. 4, p. 20, fig. 6 (1910). 



" Blackish-brown, on middle of pronotum a short narrow longi- 

 tudinal streak and another broader on each side inside the hinder 

 angles, the latter and the side margin, sides of scutellum (very 

 narrowly), the claval suture broadly (base excepted), outer margin 

 of clavus (narrowly), corium with inner basal half backward to the 



* This publication is dated 1909, hut it only reached my bauds, through the 

 courtesy of Dr. Poppius, in May 1910. 



