614 CORIXINA. 



middle, and along the inner margin of the eyes, punctured ; Face 

 pale yellowish-white. Eyes black. 



Thorax. — Fronotum reddish-brown ; posterior margin generally 

 narrowly pitchy black. Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin narrowly 

 yellowish ; suture narrrowly black ; disk with about 12 transverse 

 yellowish lines, 2 or 3 next the base broadest, those towards the apex 

 frequently very short and confluent, leaving irregular-shaped brown 

 spots ; base broadly yellowish interiorly ; Coriuni brown ; anterior 

 margin of the claval suture narrowly yellowish ; disk with numerous 

 fine, short, confused, sub reticulate, yellow lines, especially towards 

 the apex ; anterior marginal channel whitish as far as the apex of 

 the interior margin, beyond the latter yellowish ; interior and ex- 

 terior margins narrowly piceous ; line of the membrane-suture inter- 

 nally yellowish, externally brown ; 3Iemlrane brown, with several 

 short, fine, subreticulate, yellow lines. Sternum; Mesostermt-m of 

 the $ with a small black patch in the middle ; xyphus yellow. 

 Leys yellow ; 1 st pair, tihice with a longitudinal row of brownish 

 spots on the upper and undersides ; 2nd pair, fhiyJis sometimes 

 narrowly pale brownish at the apex ; tihice and tai'si at the apex 

 brown; 3rd pair, tJtiyJis reddish or brownish-yellow at the apex; 

 tilice and tarsi brown. 



Abdomen of the (^ underneath black ; connexivum yellow ; ? 

 underneath yellowish-white. 



Length, 2^ — 2^ lines. 



Not rare in the Cambridge Tens {Cr. F. Crotcli), 



Species 3. — Cymatia coleoptrata. 



SiGAEA coLEOrTEATA, Fab. E. S. CO, 3 (1791) ; Panz. F. G. 50, 24 

 (179S) ; Fat). S. R. 105, 4 (1S03). 



CoElXA — Leach, Lin. Soc. Traus. xii, IG, 1 (1S17) : Fatt. 



Hem. Suec. i, 185, 7 (1829) ; Bum. Handb. ii, 

 188, 4 (1835) ; H. Schf. Nom. Eiit. i, C4 (1835) ; 

 Wanz. ix, 53, fig. 915 (1S50). 



CoBlSA — Am. et Serv. Ilem. 44S, pi. 8, fig. G (1S43 ) ; Fieb. 



Spec. Coris. 40, 51, tab. ii, fig. 29, pake (1851) ; 

 Europ. Hem. 90, 1 (ISGl). 

 — (CiWATiA) coLEorxRATA, Flor., Rliyn. Liv. i, 800, 1 (I SCO), 



