CARRABAS. 421 



Subfamily PLATASPIDIN.E. (Vol. I, p. 3.) 



Genus TIAROCORIS. (Vol. 1, p. 14.) 



Correction of misprint i)i generic diagnosis. For " body large 

 and concave " read " body large and convex.'' 



Genus COPTOSOMA. (Vol. I, p. 17.) 

 2697. Coptosoma inerguiensis, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, somewhat thickly brownly punctate; scutellum 

 with two obUque discal inwardly directed impunctate pale ochra- 

 ceous fasciate spots ; bead impunctate, the margins of the lateral 

 lobe brownish, apices of lateral lobes meeting in front of central 

 lobe; eyes fuscous, somewhat strongly produced ; pronotum convex, 

 deflected anteriorly, the anterior lateral margins a little roundly 

 ampliate, an obscure transverse impressed line on anterior area, 

 and before which there are two transverse linear callosities, a 

 central pale longitudinal impunctate line on posterior area, the 

 brown punctures rather sparsely distributed; scutellum rather 

 more thickly brownly punctate except on apical marginal area, a 

 fine discal transverse impressed line a little behind base ; body 

 beneath and legs pale ochraceous, central disk of sternum and 

 abdomen piceous ; the body is broadly convexly subovate, widened 

 behind and narrowed anteriorly, the apex of the scutellum broadly 

 truncate. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hub. Mergui (Coll Dlst.). 



Allied to C. cribarium, Fabr. 



My attention has been called to the fact that I did not include 

 the Coptosoma canuatuvi, Kuhlg. (Arch. Naturg. Ixvii, p. 245, 1901) 

 described as from " India Orientalis, — King." I do not do so 

 because King may very probably have procured the species outside 

 the limits of our faunal area. 



Genus CARRABAS, nov. 



Type, C. maurus, Dist. 



Distribution. Madras. 



Body convex, suboblong; head produced, deflected, strongly 

 concave, the lateral lobes much longer than the central lobe, 

 strongly cleft at apices, their margins a little broadly elevated ; 

 eyes scarcely reaching the anterior angle of the pronotum ; antennae 

 four-jointed, joints only slightly differing in length, apical area of 

 second joint moderately clavate; rostrum imperfectly seen in typical 

 carded specimen ; pronotum very large, convex, anteriorly and 

 laterally deflected ; scutellum convex, almost completely covering 



