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51. COPTOSOMA BAMOSA. 



Nigra; caput niacutis duabus lateralibus luteis ; thorax fascia antica 

 lutea e vittis duabus lateralibus nigro strigalis maculisqiie duabus in- 

 terinediis, maculis duabus posterioribus liturisque duabus lateralibus 

 arcuatis luttis ; scuteUum maculis quatuor anticis angulalis, Hturis 

 lateralibus rarnosis vittaque abbreviata ramosa luteis ; pedes lutei. 



Black, thinly and largely punctured. Head rather more than one- 

 third of the breadth of the thorax, with a large luteous spot on each side. 

 Thorax with a luteous fore hand wliich is composed of two spots and of 

 two exterior stripes, each of the latter containing a black streak and joining 

 a curved luteous mark which is by ihe base of the fore wing ; two small 

 narrow transverse luteous spots behind the band. Sculellum with four an- 

 gular luteous spots on the tore border, with some ramose luteous marks on 

 each side and with an abbreviated ramose luteous stripe. Abdomen be- 

 neath with two rows of luteous spots on each side. Legs luteous. Length 

 of the body 2 lines. 



Most allied to C. plagiata, but the markings of the thorax and of the 

 sculellum are very different. 



a. Wagiou. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



52. CoPTOSOMA AMCENA. 



Nigra; caput strigis duabus anticis lateralibus latis flavis ; antennm 

 JiavcB ; thorax vittis duabus Jlavis lateralibus undulatis ; scutellum 

 strigis duabus apud marginem anticum transversis latis lanceolatis, 

 maculis quatuar lateralibus slrigaque postica lanceolatajlavis; venter 

 maculis lateralibus Jlavis ; pedes Jlavi. 



Black, very convex, thinly punctured, not longer than broad. Head a 

 little more than one-third of the breadth of the thorax, with a broad ycllnw 

 streak on each side in front. Eyts, antennic, and legs yellow. Thorax 

 with two undulating irregular lateral yellow stripes which approach very 

 near each other on the fore border. Scutellum with a broad transverse 

 lanceolate yellow streak on each side of the fore border, with two yellow 

 spots on Ciich side, and with a longitudinal lanceolate yellow streak near 

 the hind I'order, Abdomen beneath with yellow spots along each side. 

 Wings cinereous. Fore wings with a yellow coriuui and a black cosla. 

 Length of the body 2^ lines. 



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



53. CoPTOSOMA FRACTIFASCIA. 



Nigra ; caput strigis duabus lateralibus latis obliquis antennisque Jlavis ; 

 thorax utrinque strigis duabus Jiavis latis connexis ; venter maculis 

 lateralibus Jlavis ; pedes Jlavi. 



Black, thinly and minutely punctured, a little longer than broad. 

 Head more than one-third of the breadth of the thorax, with a broad 

 oblique yellow streak on each side between the eyes. Antennte yellow. 

 Thorax with two slight transverse sutures in front and with two broad yel- 

 low streaks on each side ; the hind streak curved, connected with the fore 

 one. Abdomen beneath with yellow spots along each side. L(gs yellow. 

 Corium of the fore wings yellow at the base ; membrane blackish cinereous, 

 with a blackish costal stripe. Length of the body 1^ line. 



