COCCOSTERPHUS. i 1 



furnished on both sides at apex with a spinule turning backward ; 

 tegmina short, not extending beyond abdominal apex, gradually 

 somewhat amplified towards apex which is obliquely rounded, 

 opaque and coriaceous at the base ; exterior vein of clavus united 

 with the commissure at some distance beyond the middle ; corium 

 emitting the ulnar and radial veins from the base, ulnar vein 

 somewhat foi'ked before middle of corium, two discoidal areolas 

 or, if the areola behind the fork of the ulnar vein be included, 

 three, the exterior discoidal areole stylated, stylus separating the 

 interior (or intermediate) discoidal areole from the first apical 

 area, five apical areas ; wings with three apical areas ; legs 

 moderate ; tibite prismatic, anterior a little depressed ; anterior 

 trochanters unarmed within. 



" A curious genus allied to Gargara, but very distinct in having 

 the pronotum behind the lateral angles gradually passing into the 

 posterior process which has no sinus at the base; there is no 

 produced complete scutellura, but the mesonotum is armed at the 

 apex with two very distinct spines." (Stdl.) 



2212. Coccosterphus mimitus, Fabr. (Membracis) JEnt. Si/st. Suppl. 



p. 514 (1798); id. (Ceutrotus) Syst. Rhijnq. p. 22 (1803); 

 Fairm. (Scaphula?) Ann. Soc. Fnt. Fr. 1846, p. 495; Stal 

 (Coccosterphus), Hein. Fabr. ii, p. 51 (1869) ; Atkins. J. A. 

 S. B. liv, p. 89 (1885); Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceijlon, p. 121 

 (190.3). 



I have not seen this species which Stal has thus described : — 



"Black, flavescent-greyish-sericeous ; head, pronotum and 

 tegmina remotely sprinkled with somewhat large granules ; pro- 

 notum furnished with a ridge or keel, obsolete anteriorly, very 

 elevated in the posterior process, in its medium depressed part 

 interrupted ; tegmina palely greyish-flavescent, subpellucid, ob- 

 soletely dotted with white, veins here and there infuscate, 

 granules and almost third basal part black, black part punctured, 

 ulnar vein running through this part greyish-flavescent." (Stdl.) 



" (S . Long. 3^ ; lat. 2 millim." 



''Hah. Tranquebar." 



2213. Coccosterphus decoloratus, sp. n. 



Black; tegmina variable in colour and pattern, being more or 



Fig. 58. — Coccosterphus decoloratus. 



less tinted with castaneous and cretaceous, sometimes the paler 

 coloration appears as in the specimen here figured, in other 



