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15. COPTOSOMA ictericum, n. s. 



C. livido-testaceum, fusco-nebulosum, nitidum, punctatum ; ca- 

 pitis lobis lateralibus antice coeuntibus, vertice nigro. $ 9 . 

 Long. lin. 2J-3J. 



Livid testaceous, shining, punctured. Head with the crown 

 pitchy black. Eyes reddish. Thorax convex, punctured with 

 brown, with a faint impressed line across the disc before the 

 middle ; the space in front of the transverse furrow smooth, im- 

 punctate, with a transverse pitchy black line in the middle. Scu- 

 tellum with a distinct basal elevation ; the basal portion brown- 

 ish. Elytra with the coriaceous portion brownish ; the mem- 

 brane transparent, with the nervures blackish brown. Abdomen 

 beneath brownish testaceous, shining, punctured ; with a pitchy 

 black line across the base of each segment, and a more or less 

 distinct longitudinal band of the same colour down the centre. 

 Breast pale brown, obscure, darker in the centre. Legs brown- 

 ish testaceous. Rostrum pitchy. Antennae testaceous, dusky at 

 the apex. 



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



16. COPTOSOMA atomarium. 



Thyreocoris atomarius, Germ. Zeits. i. 27. 6 (1839) ; H. Schdff. 

 Wanz. v. 30 & 31. t. 153. fig. 481 (1839). 

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



17- COPTOSOMA nubilum. 



Thyreocoris nubilus, Germ. Zeits. i. 26. 5 (1839). 



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



b. Gambia. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



c. Dix Cove, W. Africa. Presented by B. Frend, Esq. 



d. Dix Cove, W. Africa. From Capt. Parry's Collection. 



18. COPTOSOMA cribrarium. 



Cimex cribrarius, Fab. E. S. Supp. 531. 45 (1798). 



Tetyra cribraria, Fab. S. R. 143. 72 (1803); Schiodte, Kroy. 



Tijds. iv. 305. 24 (1842). 

 Thyreocoris cribrarius, Burm. Handb. ii. 384. 2 (1835) ; H. Schdff. 



Wanz. iv. 84. t. 134. fig. 416 & v. 31 (1839); Germ. Zeits. 



i. 26. 3 (1839). 

 Coptosoma cribrarium, Am. fy Serv. Hem. 66. 2 (1843). 



a. India. 



b. N. India. From Capt. Boys' Collection. 



c. E. Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's Collection. 



d. N, Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's Collection. 



