COPTOSOMA. 113^ 



mottled and punctured with piceous, the basal transverse callosity 

 shining levigate ochraceous, containing three castaneous spots ; 

 sternum pale, opaque, greyish-black; legs and rostrum ociiraceous ; 

 abdomen beneath ochraceous, the whole central area and narrow 

 segmental margins black, between the latter a series of transverse 

 testaceous lines ; antennae rather long, moderately slender, 

 ochraceous, fourth joint a little shorter than fifth or third joints; 

 head much broader than long, subangularly rounded anteriorly. 



Length 3i millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Haragama {E. E. Green). 



Allied to C. ostetisum, Dist. 



3679. Coptosoma campbelli, sp. n. 



Pronotum and scutelluin very pale ochraceous, sparsely, 

 irregularly but distinctly blackly punctate ; head, anterior area of 

 pronotuu), and transverse callosity at base of scutellum shining, 

 levigate, dark ochraceous ; the anterior prouotal area with a trans- 

 vei'se, strongly angulated darker cicatrice on each side, the basal 

 callosity to scutelluin with two central elongate darker spots , 

 body beneath and legs (as can be seen in carded specimen) dark 

 ochraceous ; vertex of head a little broader between eyes than 

 long, somewhat obliquely rounded anteriorly, the margins of 

 central lobe distinct, moderately transversely centrally gibbous at 

 base ; the punctures on pronotum a little coarser than those on 

 scutellum. 



Length 2| millim. 



Hab. South India ; Chikkaballapura (2^. V. Camphell). 



3680. Coptosoma fuscomaculatum, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, the margins of the central lobe and inner 

 margins of eyes piceous ; pronotum and scutellum pale ochraceous, 

 thickly and more darkly punctate ; pronotum with the lateral 

 margins and sometimes a central longitudinal line levigate 

 ochraceous, a piceous or black transverse line on each lateral half 

 of the anterior area, basal disk suffused with castaneous; scutellum 

 with three spots on anterior margin, the central spot much the 

 largest, and more or less obscure suffusions on apical area, cas- 

 taneous ; body beneath black, sternum opaquely black, head 

 beneath and legs ochraceous, lateral margins of abdomen macu- 

 lately testaceous ; antennae dull ochraceous ; head a little shorter 

 than breadth between eyes, apices of the lateral lobes not extend- 

 ing beyond the central lobe ; scutellum posteriorly strongly 

 declivous. 



Length 4 ; max. breadth 3 millim. 



Hah. South Lidia ; Chikkaballapura (T'. V. Camphell). 



To be placed near C. saniosum, Dist. (vol. i, p. 22). 



