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3681. Coptosoma liliputianum, sp. n. 



Body above and beneath, and legs bright ochraceous ; eyes 

 bright testaceous ; vertex of head about as long as breadth between 

 eyes, central lobe elevated, anterior margin subangularly rounded; 

 pronotum very finely punctate, strongly declivous towards head, 

 anterior transverse cicatrices a little darker ochraceous ; scutellum 

 thickly, very finely punctate, beyond basal area strongly obliquely 

 declivous to apex, foveate at anterior lateral angles; bodv beneath 

 imperfectly seen in carded type. 



Length 2 millim. 



Hob. South India; Mysore State (T. V. Campbell). 



COPTOSOMA ABESUM, Montand. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxviii, 

 p. 256 (1894). 



I have not seen this species, which was described from a $ 

 example in the " Mus. E. d'H. Nat. de Belgique." It is a large 

 species 5^ millim. in length and 4| millim. in breadth, and is 

 described as being very near C. pardalinum, Stal (vol. i, p. 24). 



Hob. W. Bengal ; Barway (P. Cardon). 



3682. Coptosoma variegatum. 



Thyreocoris variegatus, Herr.-Seh. Wanz. Ins. iv, p. 83, fig. 414 



(1839). 

 Coptosoma variegatum, Montand. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv, p. 134 



(1894) ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, p. 443 (1896). 

 Coptosoma orbicula, Walk. Cat. Het. i, p. 91, n. 47 (1867). 

 Coptosoma Wandula, Walk. Cat. Het. i, p. 96, n. 61 (1867). 

 Coptosoma pygmaeum, var. accensitum, Montand. Ann. Soc. Ent. 



Belg. xl, p. 447 (1896). 

 Coptosoma siamicum, vars. orbicula, Walk., 8f blandula, Walk. 



(vol. i, pp. 30-31). 



Body above shining black ; lateral lobes of head in front of 

 eyes, lateral margins, and four more or less transverse spots, 

 arranged in pairs, on anterior area of pronotum, and usually a 

 small spot at lateral angles of same, two transverse spots at base 

 and lateral and posterior margins of scutellum, ochraceous; body 

 beneath black, margins of head, sternum, abdomen, and the legs 

 ochraceous. 



Length 2 1 to 2| ; max. breadth 2| to 2| millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Dehra Dun (Or. A. D. Imms), Sahhawala (on 

 Butea frondosd). Sikkim ; Rungbong Valley, Gopaldhara (H. 

 Stevens). Tonkin. Sumatra. 



Allied to C. siamicum, Walk., from which it may be at once 

 distinguished by the pale transverse ochraceous markings on the 

 pronotum. 



3683. Coptosoma fletcheri, sp. n. 



Black ; lateral lobes of head in front of eyes and the antennae 

 ochraceous; pronotum with two contiguous transverse linear 

 fasciae only centrally divided, the lateral margins and a small spot 



