518 Ml". W. L. Distant on Oriental Capsidne. 



paler ; eyes piceous; antennte with tlie first joint black, the 

 second ocliraceous, with its apex black (remaining joints 

 mutilated in t^'pical specimen) ; scutellum stramineous, with 

 a broad, central, longitudinal black fascia; corium black, 

 base of costal margin dull ochraceous ; cuneus pale stra- 

 mineous, its inner angular area and apex piceous ; membrane 

 hyaline, slightly fuliginous, cellular margins and basal area 

 (reflecting the dark abdomen beneath) blackish ; sternum and 

 abdomen beneath black; head beneath, rostrum, anterior and 

 lateral margins of prosternum, and the legs ochraceous, poste- 

 rior femora black, tibiae biannulated with fuscous near base ; 

 head longer tUan broad, basal joint of antennae considerably 

 longer than head, second joint about twice as long as first and 

 finely setose ; pronotum coarsely punctate, with a transverse 

 anterior callosity ; clavus and corium thickly finely punctate ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxa^. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hah. Kurseong. 



Gismunda modesta, sp, n. 



Brownish ochraceous ; antennae with the b.isal joint 

 brownish ochraceous, second joint ochraceous, with its apical 

 half black and moderately thickened, third joint brownish, its 

 base ochraceous; head strongly deflected in front of eyes; 

 antennas with the first joint about as long as head, second a 

 little more than twice as long as first, its apical half distinctly 

 incrassate and pilose ; rostrum reaching the posterior cox^e * ; 

 pronotum short, transverse, strongly deflected, moderately 

 coarsely punctate; scutellum slightly tumid ; corium shortly 

 but not prominently pilose, and thickly, finely punctate on 

 about interior half, clavus thickly, coarsely punctate; cuneus 

 broader than long, its apex subacute ; membrane pale fuligi- 

 nous, wnth darker mottlings, the cellular areas pale fuscous, 

 longly passing the abdominal apex; tibias finely spinulose. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hub. Darjiling, 6000 feet. 



To be se])arated from G. chehnia, Dist., by its unicolorous 

 hue, much less pilose corium, less tumid scutellum, &c. 



Thaumaturgus, geu. nov. 



Head strongly almost perpendicularly deflected, subtiian- 

 2;ular, the lateral margins a little sinuate, the apex obtusely 



* Tu the description of this genus for " rostrum about reaching the 

 intermediate coxae " read ^^ posterior coxae.'' 



