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margin roundly excavated, lateral margins sinuate, posterior margin 

 truncate and sliglitly sinuate ;, anterior and posterior angles obtuse. 

 Scutellum not sulcate. Elytra extending far bej'-ond apex of abdomen, 

 subrugose with short, somewhat close, hairs (not pubescence); cuneus not 

 distinctly separated from corium, except at the lateral margin, in shape 

 very long triangular, apex curved round to nearly the apex of the mem- 

 brane, which is ovoid with a single strong nervure running longitudinally 

 ( slightly exterior to the median line ) and terminating at the cunens : 

 slightly behind the apex of the latter. Wings without a hook in the 

 cell. Legs simple, femora slightly iucrassate. Arolia large, round, 

 widely separated ; claws long, curved. Underside and legs with 

 somewhat long, pale hairs. Anterior coxse rather more than twice 

 as long as wide. Tarsi with 3 segments, the apical one thickest. 

 T. SANGuiNALis, sp. n. ( type). 

 PI. A, fig. 6 & Fl, B, fig. 4. 

 Sanguineous, membrane infuscate. Eyes deep-crimson ; antennae 

 blackish, 1st segment more or less reddish ; tarsi blackish. Wing 

 nervures mare or less infuscate, except the costa which. is sanguineous. 

 Long. 5 mill. 



Frequents Crinium asiaticum, Peradeniya, Ceylon ( E. E. Green). 

 The types ( 9) have been placed in the British Museum. 



Division Laboparia. 

 Berta, gen. no v. 

 Pilose, head very small, almost roundly perpendicular. Antennse : 

 second segment subincrassate, -thickest towards (but not at) the 

 apex, two-fifths longer than the first, two aud-a-half times as long as 

 the third, which is a little slenderer than the first and somewhat 

 curved ; third and fourth subequal in length, fourth thinnest. Rostrum 

 reaching to intermediate coxse. Pronotum and prostemum very con- 

 vex, the former not constricted anteriorly, and margins rounded, not 

 sinuate nor refloxed, posterior margin very slightly sinuate. Scutellum 

 large. Type Capsus lankanus, Kirby. Not closely allied to any 

 Laboparian known to me. 



B. LANKANA (Kirby). 



■PI. A, fig. 7 & Pi. B, fig. 5. 



' "^^ Capsus latik'ahus, Kirby, 1. c, p. 107. 



Of this very pretty my iophanous bug, I have examined two 



females from Ceylon, w^;.,' thef 'type frbrtl' if? itagala (British Museum, 



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