COPTOSOMA. 17 



margins ochraceous punctured with caslaneous. Head beneath, 

 presternum, rostrum, and legs ochraceous ; abdomen beneath 

 shining piceous, with a marginal series of angulated ochraceous 

 spots ; antenna) ochraceous, apical joint castaneous. 



Length 4; max. breadth 3^ millim. 



Hah. " India " {Mus. Paris"). 



I am indebted to Prof. Bouvier for the opportunity of figuring 

 and describing the unique type. 



Genus COPTOSOMA. 



Coptosoma, subg. Coptosoma, Zap. Ess. Hem. p. 73 (1832). 

 Globocoi'is, Hahn^ Wanz. ii, p. 40 (1834). 



Coptosoma, Hall. List Hem. i, p. 61 (1851); Stal, Hem. Afr. 

 \, pp. I 6c 9 (1864) ; Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivi, p. 30 (1887). 



Type, G. globus, Fabr. A Palaearctic species. 



Distrihution. Distributed throughout the Old World, but not 

 found on the American continent. 



Body broadly ovate, above moderately convex, flat or very 

 slightly convex beneath ; head usually small, deflexed, narrower 

 than the pronotum ; eyes moderately prominent ; ocelli nearer to 

 the eyes than to each other ; antennae inserted at the eyes ; lateral 

 margins of pronotum posteriorly sinuate before the sinus, generally 

 distinctly am pliated and foliaceous; scutellum moderately broadened 

 posteriorly ; feet rather short. 



This is a very large and unwieldy genus, but it is a homo- 

 geneous one, and though we may make sections of it they are 

 superficial and do not lead to subgeneric division. I am now able 

 to enumerate no fewer than 51 species belonging to this fauna. 



I. Head short, broad, moderately rounded between the eyes. 



A Ironotum with lateral inargins much dilated, distinctly 

 emarginate in front of lateral angles. 



23. Coptosoma ceylonicum, Boh-n, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxl, p. 399 (1860). 



Head black with a central ochraceous basal spot, eyes casta- 

 neous ; pronotum and scutellum ochraceous, pronotum with 

 nearly the basal half and scutellum, excluding the basal callosities, 

 coarsely punctured with brown ; pronotum with a short sublateral 

 fascia to dilated anterior margin, a central linear fascia not quite 

 reaching basal margin, an oblique linear fascia on each side com- 

 mencing near lateral angle and connected with the apices of a 

 sinuate fascia situate a little before anterior margin, and the 

 posterior margin, black ; scutellum with the margins of the basal 

 callosity, a short central longitudinal basal fascia, and the lateral 

 and apical margins, black. Body beneath black ; antenna?, rostrum, 



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