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APPENDIX. CAPSID^E. 



aunulated 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 tar i 

 black ; structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Hakgala (Green). 



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



Genus RAGMUS. 

 ' Ragmus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) v, p. 18 (1910). 



Type, It. importunitas, Dist. 



Distribution. India, Ceylon. 



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; antennae with 

 the first joint shorter than head, slightly thickened and with 

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



Fig. 159. Itagmus importunitas. 



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; scutellnm. 

 subtriangular ; corium (including cuneus) only slightly longer 

 than posterior tibiae ; cuneus as broad at base as outwardly 

 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, tibiae distinctly, longly spinulose ; posterior 

 tarsi with the basal joint longest. 



