1886.] E. T. Atkinson— Notes on Indian ELynchota. 167 



45. CosMOPSALTRiA OBTECTA, Fabricius. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 226, no. 54. 



Head virescent with a black vertical cross and on this the usual 

 ocelh : the thorax green, the anterior lobe with small impressed lines, 

 the posterior lobe with five more distinct abbreviated lines : abdomen 

 virescent, furnished beneath with opercula which are arched, elongated 

 cinereous and armed at the base with a robust, acute spine: feet 

 virescent with black lines (Fabr.). 



S Weak olivaceous-virescent : an interior marginal spot beneath 

 the middle of the lores; the extreme interior margin of the gense 

 at the frons; four transverse, lateral, subbasal lines on the frons 

 terminated inwards by a longitudinal line and united, interior apical 

 angle and median subapical spot on the juga ; a narrow median band 

 slightly verging forwards on both sides and spots on the vertex includino- 

 the ocelh, two narrow median streaks very slightly diverging before the 

 middle posteriorly slightly arcuated not extended behind the posterior 

 transverse impression, a small median, lateral discoidal streak on both 

 sides, a small oblong obliquely longitudinal spot behind the lateral ob- 

 lique median impression, also a streak near the lateral margins of the 

 thorax, three median longitudinal lines (the middle one near the apex of 

 the scutellum the lateral ones abbreviated in the middle of the scutellum) 

 all reaching the base, the lateral ones slightly converging backwards, foar 

 small basal spots situate towards the sides, an obliquely longitudinal line 

 abbreviated on both sides, situate behind the exterior basal spot and two 

 small spots placed behind the middle of the scutellum, an irreo-nlar spot 

 on the first dorsal segment of the abdomen, two lines (one interior the 

 other exterior) also two spines on the first pair of femora, an abbreviated 

 upper anterior line on the posterior femora and an indistinct band near 

 the apex of the posterior tibiae, blackish. A median band and lateral 

 spot (sometimes very obsolete) on the dorsal segments of the abdomen, 

 fuscous-testaceous : tegmina and wings somewhat sordidly vitreous : 

 veins fuscous, olivaceous-virescent towards the base ; the apex of the 

 exterior ulnar vein flavescent at the costa ; the two exterior anastomoses 

 with a fuscous limbus. 



S Apical angles of the last dorsal anal segment produced in a long- 

 lobe, gradually acuminated, the lobes below and towards the apex fus- 

 cous, inferior anal segment obtusely emarginate at the apex : opercula 

 about one-third shorter than the abdomen, beyond the middle towards 

 the apex gradually, thence more abruptly narrowed, inwardly behind the 

 middle rounded, outwardly straight, rounded at the apex, olivaceous- 

 flavescent : second ventral segment armed at the apex in the middle of 

 the sides with a much elevated tubercle. Head equal in breadth to the 

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