COPXOSOMA. 21 



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

 Hah. Xaga Hills {Doherty). — Also found in Tibet, Mou-Piu, 

 by Pei-e David. 



32. Coptosoma COntectum, Monfand. Amt. Soc. Ent. Behj. xxxvii, 



p. 5G7 (1893). 



Black, shining ; head with a spot at base of central lobe and 

 the anterior area from about between eyes more or less ochraceous ; 

 pronotum with the anterior dilated lateral margins and an inner 

 oblique line reaching the lateral angles ochraceous ; seutellum 

 with the margins very narrowly ochraceous ; sternum piceous, 

 opaque ; abdomen shining black. Head beneath, lateral margins 

 of sternum, antennae, rostrum, legs, lateral margins of abdomen, 

 a double longitudinal series of linear spots at apices of second, 

 third, and fourth abdominal segments, and a single similar spot on 

 ■each of the remaining segments, ochraceous. 



Length 4 ; max. breadth 4 millim. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Kurseong (Montand. Coll., Brit. Mus.). 



33. Coptosoma varium, Montand. Ann. .S'oc. Ent. Beh/. xxxvii, p. 565 



(1893j. 



Head ochraceous, the basal area black ; pronotum and seutellum 

 black with a central discal spot, the anterior dilated margins 

 connected with a large subquadrate spot at lateral angles ; seu- 

 tellum with the basal callosity, the lateral and apical margins, a 

 large spot near each basal angle, and two large subquadrate spots 

 connected with apical margin, ochraceous punctured with brown. 

 Body beneath black, the sternum opaque ; head beneath, rostrum, 

 antennae, legs, lateral margins of sternum and abdomen, and a 

 long, blunt, ray-like fascia, with a central darker line, from apex 

 of each abdominal segment, ochi'aceous ; fourth and fifth joints of 

 antennae and apex of rostrum infuscated. 



Length 4 ; max. breadth 4 millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Euby Mines (Doherti/). 



II. Head large, obtuse, subsemicircular in front of eyes. 



A. Apices of lateral lohes of head not entirely meetiiig in 

 front of central lohe. 



34. Coptosoma ramosum. Walk. Cat. Het. i, p. 93 (1867) ; Dist. A. M. 

 N. H. (7) iv, p. i>16 (1899). 

 Coptosoma loriae, Montand. Ann. Mus. Clo. Gen. xxxiv, p. 415 

 (1895) 



Above shining black ; head with a broad marginal fascia on 

 each lateral lobe, pronotum with the dilated anterior marginal 

 areas (containing a central black line), two transverse spots near 



