342 Mr. W. L. Distant's contributions to a 



smallness and obscurity of its species have not promoted 

 its favour with Hemipterists ; consequently we may 

 safely affirm that our knowledge of the Oriental 

 Coptosomce is extremely limited. In the Asopince Sikkini 

 has also given us a new genus allied to Cazira. In the 

 Pentatomince there are several interesting points. Doly- 

 coris verbasci is a well-known and not uncommon Pale- 

 arctic Pentatomid. Stal separated an allied Indian 

 species under the name of D. indicus, whilst in this 

 paper Formosa is shown to have another allied but 

 distinct specific form. In Scylax we have a new genus, 

 which, though strictly belonging to the Pentatomince, 

 has all the superficial characteristics of PhyUocephalince. 

 Two species of Carbula are added to the Indian fauna, 

 but we may safely affirm that our enumeration of this 

 genus is still imperfect. The genus Agceus was hitherto 

 only represented by two species, — one from Burma, the 

 other found in Western Tropical Africa ; a third from 

 Assam is now added. The genus Eurydema usually 

 produces novelties in most Old World collections, though 

 I was not prepared for another new species in the 

 Indian fauna. Compastes possessed only one known 

 Indian species ; Sikkim has now contributed two more to 

 the list. The only other remark necessary is as regards 

 Basicryptus, a genus of PhyUocephalince. This genus 

 has its head-quarters in Tropical and Southern Africa ; 

 one species has been described from Australia, another 

 from Manilla, and I have here been enabled to make 

 known a species found in Northern India. 



I have unfortunately been compelled to use— in more 

 than one instance— such misleading habitats as " North 

 India," and such inexact ones as "N.E. India." In 

 these cases the fault is not to be visited on the writer, 

 who possessed no other information. I hope the Society, 

 on a future occasion, will allow me to proceed with 

 some further descriptions of nondescripts in other 

 families of the Oriental Heteroptera. 



PLATASPIN^I. 



Coptosoma fimbriatum, n. s. 



Body above shining black ; margin of head (broadly), eyes, 



ocelli, antennae, lateral margins of pronotum, abdominal margin 



as seen at base of scutellum, head beneath, rostrum, legs, margins 



