COROTICUS. 45 



Genus COROTICQS, nov. 



Type, C. tessellatus, Disr. 



Distribution. British India. 



Vertex of head longer than breadth between eyes, apically 

 narrowed and subacute, ocelli beneath near eyes, margins of vertex 

 ridged, the disk thus having a foveate or excavate appearance ; face 

 very long and narrow, anteriorly subacutelv produced before eyes, 

 where it is broadest ; pronotum about as long as vertex, its 

 anterior margin distinctly convex between the eyes, posterior 

 margin nearly straight, lateral margins short and moderately 

 oblique ; soutellum moderately short and broad ; tegmina a little 

 longer than abdomen, apical cells three, the uppermost preceded 

 by two subapical cells. 



Allied to Varta, Dist. 



3557. Coroticus tessellatus, sp. n. 



Vertex of head pale brownish-ochraceous ; pronotum dark 

 brownish-ochraceous ; scutellum anteriorly blackish, the posterior 

 area more or less greyish white ; face dark fuscous-brown, the 

 anterior margin in front of eyes ochraceous ; body beneath 

 fuscous-brown; legs pale ochraceous; tegmina pale ochraceous, 



Fig. 23. Coroticus tessellatus. 



with numerous brownish tessellate markings, a large costal space 

 near middle containing four small dark spots, a pale claval spot, 

 a smaller discal tegminal spot, one near apex of costal margin, and 

 the inner subapical cell also pale ; other structural characters as 

 in generic diagnosis. 



Length incl. tegm. 5 mi Hi in. 



Hab. Kumaon. 



