12 Mr. J.8. Baly on new Species of Cassidide. 
and apical margins rounded, and forming together the segment of a 
sphere; upper surface smooth, impunctate, irregularly pitted on either 
side between the disk and margin; dilated margin slightly irregular, 
scarcely reflexed. Elytra about three times longer than the thorax ; 
shoulders slightly prominent anteriorly, their apex rounded; sides 
rounded and slightly dilated to the middle, then rounded and narrowed 
to the apex, the latter rounded; upper surface convex, deeply exca- 
vated and retuse at the base on either side the suture, elevated before 
the middle into an acute gibbosity, surface irregularly pitted on the 
outer disk, distinctly punctate-striate, the striz interrupted ; on each 
elytron, at the base, is a transverse fuscous vitta, pitchy-black beneath, 
which extends from the edge of the disk along the basal margin to the 
humeral angle ; disk separated from the outer margin by a single row of 
deep punctures; from the middle of the edge of the disk a short raised 
process is produced a short distance across the margin; lateral border 
broadly dilated, its limb narrowly reflexed ; surface convex in its middle 
portion, concave at the base and apex, covered with nearly obsolete, 
irregular transverse strigee; outer limb concolorous with the disk of 
the elytron ; remainder of the surface hyaline. 
This insect must be placed close to A. elevata, Fab. 
Coptocycla flavoplagiata. 
C. subtriangularis, flava, nitida, thoracis plaga basali, apice truncata, nigra, 
basi flavo notata; elytris evidenter punctato-striatis, ante medium 
valde gibbosis, plaga magna discoidali, a basi fere ad apicem extensa, 
utrinque medio emarginata, nigra, maculas duas flavas ferente ; mar- 
gine late explanato, humeris modice prominulis, antennarum articulo 
ultimo apice nigro.—Long. 4-5 lin. 
Hab. Tringanee. 
Subtriangular, shining flayous ; last joints of antennz black. Thorax 
one-third broader than long, apex obtuse, sides regularly rounded ; 
upper surface smooth, sides obsoletely reflexed ; at the base is a broad 
subtrigonate black patch, the apex of which is broadly truncate ; in the 
centre of its base is a deeply impressed yellow fovea. Scutellum tri- 
gonate. Elytra much broader at their base than the thorax ; shoul- 
ders subprominent, their apex quickly rounded ; sides obliquely rounded 
and narrowed from the base towards the apex, the latter regularly 
rounded ; upper surface very convex, elevated just before the middle 
into a strong, subacute gibbosity, the anterior surface of which is ex- 
cavated; disk distinctly punctate-striate, the puncturing however 
becoming nearly obsolete towards the apex; nearly covering the 
disk is a large subquadrate black patch, which extends from the base 
almost to the apex, its lateral border notched in the middle, its hinder 
edge natched on either side ; on its surface are two large flavous patches, 
the first subquadrate, commencing at the base and covering the gib- 
bosity nearly as far as the middle of its hinder surface, the second 
