20 PENTATOMID^. 



2U. CoptOSOma lethierryi, Montand. Her. Ent. Fran<;. 1892, p. 284. 



Uniform indigo-blacli above, shining ; eyes brownish-ochraceous : 

 basal margin of coriiim and connexivum reddish-ochraceous : body 

 beneath shining indigo-black, opaque on sternum and underside 

 of head ; lateral margins of metasternum and abdomen — the latter 

 inwardly toothed on each segment — reddish-ochraceous ; antennae 

 and legs brownish-ochraceous, the femora more or less piceous. 



Length 4| to 5; max. breadth 4 to 4| millim. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Mungphu {Coll. Leihierrxj). Burma; Karennee 

 {Feci). 



30. CoptOSOma modigliani, 3Iontand. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genor. xxxiiir 

 p. 296 (1893). 



Dark blackish-castaneous, shining ; anterior lateral dilated 

 margin of pronotum ochraceous with a central piceous line ; eyes 

 and four spots to pronotum (two on anterior area and one near 

 each lateral angle) brownish-ochraceous ; scutellum without a 

 basal callosity, but narro\^ly brownish-ochraceous on each basal 

 area, where there is an included dark spot ; basal margin of coriuni 

 and an intramarginal line to scutellum ochraceous. Body beneath 

 dark castaneous, the abdomen shining, the sternum opaque ; lateral 

 margins of prosternum largely ochraceous ; antennae, rostrum, and 

 legs brownish-ochraceous, extreme femoral bases piceous ; abdo- 

 minal margin and small spots at apex of each segment ochraceous : 

 these spots double on the second, third, and fourth segments, 

 single and smaller on the fifth and sixth segments. 



Length 3| to 4 ; max. breadth 4 to 4| millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Shan Toma {Montand. Coll., Brit. Mus.). — 

 Originally received from the Island of Engario. 



b. ^cntelhim ivith a distinct hasal callosity. 



31. CoptOSOma distant!, Montand. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belli, xxxvii, p. 564 

 (1893). 



Shining bronzy-black ; anterior half of head, lateral margins of 

 pronotum (very broad at lateral angles), a spot at each apex of basal 

 callosity, and the lateral and apical areas of scutellum ochraceous : 

 a sublateral row of dark punctures in the anterior lateral prcnotal 

 dilatations, the ochraceous markings at lateral angles of pronotum 

 and those on the scutellum thickly and darkly punctate ; anterior 

 margin of head narrowly black, margins of central lobe piceous ;, 

 sternum opaque black ; abdomen shming black. Head beneath 

 rostrum, antennae, lateral margins of sternum, legs, lateral abdo- 

 minal margin, and a long spot occupying about apical third of each 

 abdominal segment, ochraceous. 



Var. Ochraceous lateral areas of the scutellum broken centrally 

 by the black ground-colour. 



