92 CATALOGUE OF 
49. CoprosoMA MARGINATA. 
Nigra; caput puneto medio longo maculisque duabus posticis magnis ar- 
cuatis luteis ; antenne fulve, thorax strigis octo fasciaque luteis 
transversis anticis, lituris posticis luteis lateralibus ; scutellum strigis 
guatuor transversis anticis liturisque posticis lateralibus luteis ; ventris 
latera strigis lanceolatis excisis lineolisque luteis transversis ; pedes 
fulvi. 
Black, thinly and largely punctured, somewhat longer than broad. 
Head one-third of the breadth of the thorax, with an elongated luteous 
point in the disk and with a large curved luteous spot on each side of the 
fore border. Antenne and legs tawny. Thorax on each side with four 
transverse luteous streaks and with a luteous marginal band in front of the 
suture ; hind part with several small luteous marks on each side. Scutel- 
lum with four transverse luteous streaks on the fore border, and with several 
small irregular luteous marks about each side. Abdomen beneath with 
transverse lanceolate excavated streaks and with short transverse luteous 
lines along each side. Wings blackish cinereous. Fore wings with a 
yellow streak on the black corium, and with a black costal stripe. Length 
of the body 3 lines. 
The luteous speckles towards the tip of the scutellum distinguish it 
from C. 12-punctata. 
a. New Guinea. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
50. CoprosoMA PLAGIATA. 
Nigra; caput luteum, lineis duabus lateralibus plagisque duabus posticis 
connexis nigris, vitla brevi picea postice furcata ; thorax fusciis duabus 
anticis interruptis strigisque duabus latis lateralibus piceo marginatis 
luteis; scutellum fascia antica abbreviata fasciaque postica lata 
arcuata piceo conspersa usque ad apicem dilatata luteis; venter ma- 
culis lateralibus luteis transversis ; pedes lutet. 
Black, thinly punctured, a little longer than broad. Head and thorax 
finely punctured. Head luteous, hardly more than one-third of the breadth 
of the thorax, with a short black line on eaeb side in front, with a short 
piceous stripe which is forked at its hind end and with two connected 
black patches on the hind border. Antenne and legs luteous. Thorax 
with a transverse suture, between which and the fore border there are two 
luteous bands which increase in breadth outward, and are interrupted in 
the middle ; second band abbreviated on each side ; a broad luteous piceous- 
bordered streak on each side connected with the first band. Scutellum 
largely punctured, with an abbreviated luteous band on the fore border, 
and with a broad curved piceous-speckled binder luteous band which is 
much dilated in the middle and occupies the whole of the hind border. 
Abdomen beneath with a row of transverse luteous spots along each side. 
Wings cinereous. Fore wings with a luteous corium and with a blackish 
costal stripe. Length of the body 2} lines. 
It is larger than C. atomaria, from which it differs also in the markings 
of the thorax. 
a. New Guinea. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
b. New Guinea. From Mr. Wallace’s collection. 
