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margins close to the lateral angles, yellow ; two yellow spots on 

 the anterior margin, and two short transverse lines of the same 

 colour on the disc, close to the transverse furrow. Scutellum 

 with a large orange spot on each side of the basal elevation ; a 

 small spot on each side at the base, close to the outer margin, 

 and the margin itself, except at the base, yellow. Elytra dark 

 brown, margined with yellow at the bas ; the membrane brown. 

 Abdomen black, shining, wrinkled longitudinally, with the mar- 

 gin orange, and a yellow spot on each side of each segment close 

 to the margin. Breast dull greyish black. Legs yellowish fer- 

 ruginous, with the thighs brown at the base. Rostrum and an- 

 tennae dusky ferruginous. 



a. Natal. From Dr. Krauss's Collection. 



6. COPTOSOMA cinctum. 



Scutellera cincta, Esch. Dorp. Abh. i. 161 (1822). 



Thyreocoris seminulum, Burm. NovaActa Acad. Leop. xvi. Supp. 



290. 10 (1834). 

 Thvreocoris variegatus, H. Schdff. Wanz. iv. 83. tab. 134. fig. 414 



(1839). 

 Thyreocoris cinctus, Germ. Zeits. i. 27. 8 (1839); H. Schaff. 



Wanz. v. 30 (1839). 

 a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



7. COPTOSOMA sphaerulum. 



Thyreocoris spharuJa, Germ. Zeits. i. 25. 2 (1839); H. Schaff. 

 Wanz. v. 15 & 30. t. 150. fig. 476 (1839). 



a. N. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's Collection. 



b. China (Fow-choo-foo). Presented by G. Tradescant Lay, 



Esq. 



8. COPTOSOMA bipustulatum. 



Thyreocoris bipustulatus. Germ. Zeits. i. 30. 14 (1839). 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



9. COPTOSOMA marginellum, n. s. 



C. prsecedenti valde affine, nigrum, subobscurum, punctatissi- 

 mum ; capitis lobis lateralibus flavis, centralem non superan- 

 tibus; thoracis, scutelli, abdominisque marginibus, pedibus 

 antennisque flavis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 1J. 



Above black, somewhat obscure, thickly and finely punctured. 

 Head with the lateral lobes yellow, not meeting beyond the cen- 

 tral one. Eyes red. Thorax with the transverse furrow very in- 



