93 CATALOGUE OF 



49. COPTOSOMA MAROINATA. 



Nigra; caput punclo medio longo maculisque duahus posticis magnis ar- 

 cuatis luteis ; antenna fulvcs, thorax strigis octo fasciaque luleis 

 transversis anticis, lituris posticis luteis laleralibus ; scutellum strigis 

 quatuor transversis anticis liturisque posticis lateratibus luteis ; ventris 

 latera strigis lanceolatis excisis lineolisque luteis transversis ; pedes 

 fulvi. 

 Black, tbinly and larfjely punctured, somewhat longer than broad. 

 Head one-lhird of the breadth of the lliorax, with an elongated luleous 

 point in the disk and with a large curved luteous spot on each side of the 

 fore border. Antennee 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 luleous 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. V2-punctata. 



a. New Guinea. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



50. CoPTOSOMA PLAGIATA. 



Nigra; caput luleum, lincis duahus lateralibus plagi^tque duahus posticis 

 connexis nigris, vitla brevi picea postice furcata ; thorax fasciis duabus 

 anticis interruptis slrigisque duabus latis laleralibus piceo marginatis 

 - luteis ; scutellum jo.scia antica abbreviata fasciaque postica lata 

 arcuata piceo conspersa usque ad apicem dilatata luleis; venter ma- 

 culis laleralibus luleis transversis ; pedes lutei. 



Black, thinly punctured, a little longer than broad. Head and thorax 

 finely punctured. Head luteous, hardly more than one-lhird of the breadth 

 of the thorax, with a short black line on each side in front, wiih a short 

 piceous stripe which is forked at its hind end and with two connected 

 black patches on the hind border. Antennae and legs luteous. Thorax 

 with a transverse suture, between which and the lore i)order 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, wilh an abbreviated luteous band on the fore border, 

 and with a broad curved piceous-speckled hinder 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 siripe. Length of the body 2J 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. 



