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Genus CAPYS. (Vol. IV, p. 489.) 



Some amount of conjecture has been formulated by Bergroth in 

 relation to the generic name Capys as here used. In 1907 

 Breddin proposed a new genus Capyella, which Bergroth correctly 

 surmised was only a synonym of tfopyt, Stll (1865). The name 

 Capys, however, was also used in the same year by Hewitson for a 

 genus of Lycaenidse. Bergroth states that Hewitson's name was 

 published a little earlier than Stal's and that, therefore, Capyella, 

 Bredd., could be used as a new name, but lie does not give us any 

 particulars as to the respective dates of publication, though 

 probably he has some information that is neither known in 

 Stockholm nor London where these names were proposed, and 

 where I have sought unsuccessfully to discover exact dates of 

 publication beyond that of the same year. I therefore do 

 not consider that Bergroth is justified in this alteration, and 1 do 

 not follow him. 



CAPYS MALACAIPUS (Vol. IV, p. 490) ; Dist. Entomologist, xliv, 



p. 25 (1911). 

 Capyella horni, Bredd. Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 37. 



-3758. Capys gracilis, Dist. Entomologist, xliv, p. 213 (1911). 



6 . Head ochraceous, the lateral margins behind eyes and 

 a somewhat circular series of coarse punctures at base, enclos- 

 ing ocelli, black ; pronotum with the anterior area ochra- 

 ceous, remainder thickly bhickly punctate, with the margins 

 and a central line ochraceous ; scutellum blackly punctate ; 

 corium ochraceous, \\ith dense, fine, black punctures; membrane 

 greyish-brown with scattered blackish markings ; connexivum 

 ochraceous with elongate black spots ; body beneath black, 

 abdomen with lateral marginal, elongate, ochraceous spots; coxae 

 ochraceous ; antennae with the first and second joints ochraceous, 

 finely speckled with black, fourth joint black, first joint more 

 than twice as long as second, subequal in length to third, apex of 

 first joint distinctly incrassate, fourth short and moderately 

 thickened : head between antennae armed with a moderately long, 

 curved, spiniform porrect process ; pronotum longer than broad, 

 elongate, only moderately widened posteriorly ; membrane 

 reaching apex of abdomen ; rostrum about reaching posterior 

 coxa?, its apical joint black. 



$ Abdomen beneath testaceous ; membrane not reaching apex 

 of abdomen. 



Length 6|-7 millim. 



I fab. Trichinopoly. 



Differs from C. malacaiptts, StSl, by the slightly shorter and 

 somewhat more robust spiniform process to the head, the 



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