138 CEB.COPID.'E, 



2319. Cosmoscarta thoracica, Disf. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 680. 



Head black ; pronotiini ochraceous, its anterior margin broadly, 

 the lateral margins narrowly, and a very broad fascia between the 

 lateral angles, sometimes divided centrally and not quite reaching 

 the lateral angles, black ; scutelliim ochraceous, black at base ; 

 abdomen, body beneath, and legs ochraceous ; basal area of face, 

 lateral margins of presternum, and apex of abdomen black ; 

 tegmina black, with three transvei'se ochraceous fasci<ie, one at 

 base, one about one-third from base, and the other before apical 

 area ; wings pale fuliginous ; pronotum thickly and finely punctate, 

 with two foveate impressions near anterior margin, and a narrower 

 elongate impression near each lateral angle, lateral margins strongly 

 re flexed ; face with a broad central impunctate impression, the 

 transverse impressions moderate ; mesosternal tubercles com- 

 pressed, obscure, non-prominent ; rostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxa) ; posterior tibiae with a very short spine near base 

 and a long spine before middle ; tegmina a little more than twice 

 as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 9 ; exp, tegm. 18 to 19 millim. 



Hah. Trivandruni {Bint. Mus.). 



2320. Cosmoscarta taprobanensis, Atkins. J. A. 8. B. Ivii, p. 33;i 



(1888) ; Melich. Horn. Fann. Ceylo7i, p. 127, t. iv, f. 1 (^1903). 



Vertex of head, pronotum, and sternum black; centre of vertex, 

 face, lateral margins and a transverse fascia to pronotum, scutellum 

 and legs testaceous ; abdomen testaceous, beneath with a double 

 series of black spots on the lateral areas ; tegmina piceous, basal 

 third and a transverse fascia before apical area testaceous, the 

 basal third containing a number of piceous spots ; wings sub- 

 hyaline, the veins darker ; head finely transversely impressed iu 



Fig. 100. — Cosmoscarta taprobanensis. 



front of eyes ; pronotum punctate and rugulose, centrally longi- 

 tudinally carinate, irregularly foveate on each side before anterior 

 margin, lateral margins reflexed : scutellum foveate at base; 

 pronotum with two compressed tubercles, their apices subacutn ; 

 rostrum reaching the intermediale coxa); tegmina very thickly 

 finely punctate, about two and a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 7 to 9 ; exp. tegm. 21 to 23 miUim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya {Green), Karativu, Patipolla {fide 

 Melichar). 



