52 I CATALOGUE OF 



C'OPTOSOMA POLYSPILA. 



Nigra ; caput puncto diseoidali tenui maculisque duabus anticis elongatis 

 flavin; antenna: Jlava? ; thorax fascia antica fiava viltam lineamque 

 transversam+mdulatam nigras includenle, viltis duabus lateralibus 

 flavis nigro unimaculatis ; scutellum striga apicali lanceolata plagis- 

 quc duabus lateralibus nigro conspersis Jasciaque basali glabra abbre- 

 viata interrupta Jlavis ; venlris lalera pedesque jlava. 



Black, shining, a little longer than broad, very finely punctured. 

 Head with an elongated yellow point in the disk and with an angular 

 yellow spot on each side of the fore border. Eyes testaceous. Rostrum, 

 antennae and legs yellow. Thorax with a yellow band on the fore border 

 including a black stripe and an undulating abbreviated slender black band ; 

 an irregular yellow stripe on each side including a black spot which is 

 contiguous to the base of the fore wing. Scutellum with a yellow 

 impunctate interrupted abbreviated basal band; a yellow black-speckled 

 streak tapering from the tip to the middle; an irregular yellow black- 

 speckled space on each side. Abdomen beneath with a broad yellow stripe 

 along each side. Length of the body If line. 



Between C.plagiala and C. ramosa in character; it differs from both 

 in the colour of the markings and in their different arrangement on the 

 sculcllum. 



a. Kaisaa. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



COPTOSOMA CYATIIIGERA. 



Nigra; caput antice flavum ; antennae jlava, apice picece ; thorax flavus, 

 disco nigro, luteribas posticis i?icisis ; scutellum flavum, fascia sub- 

 ei/athiformi antice dentata postice incisa et atomaria maculisque 

 duabus postcrioribus elongatis nigris ; venlris lalera pedesque Jlava. 



Black, shining, finely punctured, a little longer than broad. Head 

 yellow in front. Eyes pale testaceous. Antenna? and rostrum yellow, 

 piceous towards their tips. Thorax yellow, with a black disk which extends 

 to the hind border and is narrowly connected with the fore border; sides 

 notched near ihe hind angles. Scutellum yellow, with a somewhat cup- 

 Bhaped black band, which is dentate in the middle of its fore border and 

 extends on each side to the base and has its base in the disk jagged and 

 accompanied by speckles; an elongated black spot near each side beyond 

 ilie middle; tip slightly notched. Abdomen along each side beneath and 

 legs yellow. Length of the body 2 lines. 



a. Batchian. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



C'OPTOSOMA QUADRIPLAGIA1A. 



Nigra ; caput luleum, spatio postico nigro punclum luteum includenle ; 

 antenna pallide Jlava; thorax antice luteo biplagiatus; sculcllum 

 plagis duabus subapicalibus luleis obliquis conncxis ; rrntiis lalera 

 luteo pallida plagiata . pedes pallidc flavi. 



