214 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 



whole body is also less convex, the highest part of the 

 convexity being behind the middle ; in the older insect 

 the convexity is a short distance below the base of the 

 elytra ; the costa? on the surface of the latter are less 

 raised. 



Genus Coptocycla, Boh. 



Mon. Cass. iii. 90. 



Coptocycla Thais, Boh. 



Mon. Cassid. Suppl. p. 463. 



Var. A. Macida elytri marginis obsoleta. 

 Hab. — Japan ; also Northern China. 



The specimen in my collection from which SufFrian 

 drew up his description of this species Avas unfortunately 

 pale and immature ; the sanguineous markings described 

 by that author are black, or piceous in the fully-developed 

 insect. 



Coptocycla Lewisii. 



Subrotundata, convexa, fulva, subuitida, antennis extror- 

 sum infuscatis; subtus picea, nitida, pedibus fid%ds, elytris 

 pone basin leviter gibbosis, utrisque basi ad suturam ex- 

 cavatis, profunde punctato-striatis, hie illic rete elevato 

 instrnctis ; disco fulvo-piceo, piceo-marginato ; margine 

 laterali Itevi, raraulis duabus piceis, uno infra basin^ altero 

 pone medium positis, ornato. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hah, — Hioffo. 



_ Thorax twice as broad as long, apex obtusely angled, 

 sides rounded at the base, thence obliquely and transversely 

 converging to the apex ; disk smooth, impunctate. Elytra 

 much broader than the thorax, shoulders moderately promi- 

 nent, then- apices rounded ; disk distinctly gibbous below 

 the base, the base itself excavated on either side the suture, 

 gibbosity crowned by a transverse ridge ; surface deeply 

 punctate-stnate, the strife sulcate, interspaces on the inner 

 disk towards the apex thickened ; here and there are some 

 irregular, loosely-reticulated, raised, fulvous rugsB, most 

 visible^ at tlie base and towards the apex of the disk ; 

 dilated margin slightly deflexed, smooth, impunctate. 



