342 E. T. Atkinson — ISlew or little known Indian Ehynchota. [No. 4, 



to the disc on each side, eleven long yellow rays, an irregular large 

 blackish-brown spot at the junction of the anterior part of the base of 

 each ray with the marginal yellow band and partly on both, also a small 

 round black dot on each alternate ray, towards the base : legs ochra- 

 ceous-yellow, thickly and finely spotted brown, especially the femora : 

 one of the largest species of this genus hitherto recorded. Long, 10 : 

 greatest breadth of abdomen, 8 mill. 



Hab. Mungphu (Sikkim) : 3,800 feet. 



BrACHYPLATTS NIGER, n. sp. 



Above and beneath shining black : femora and tibiae with a brown- 

 ish tinge, posterior tarsi sordid ochraceous : eyes bright light yellow : 

 parts about the rostrum in repose sordid yellow. Long, 8 : broad, 6 

 mill. 



Hab. Malacca. 



COPTOSOMA BRUNNEA, n. sp. 



Deep castaneous-brown, shining : juga, spot in middle of frons, 

 anterior margin of the pronotum (interrupted in the middle), lateral 

 margins of the same (inclosing anteriorly a longitudinal deep-brown 

 streak), lateral and posterior margins of the scutellum, genitalia for the 

 most part, ventral limbus and feet, subsordid yellow-ochraceous : tylus, two 

 transverse streaks before the transverse impression on pronotum, lateral 

 angles slightly, also two spots towards the base of the scutellum more 

 deeply reddish : ocelli bright red : eyes deep brown : pectus and venter 

 darker : anterior margin of jDronotum slightly refiexed. Long, 3|^ mill. 



Hab. Puudaloya (Ceylon) : Mr. E. E. Green. 



COPTOSOMA MINIMA, n. Sp. 



Brassy-black, shining : juga, lateral margins of pronotum (in- 

 closing anteriorly a longitudinal brown streak), lateral and posterior 

 margins of scutellum, two small round spots on each side towards the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum, and a spot on each posterior lateral 

 angle, also a larger transverse spot at each side of the base of the scu- 

 tellum, and the legs, yellow : venter brassy-black, margin of each seg- 

 ment with an oblong longitudinal yellow patch inclosing in the middle 

 a longitudinal brown streak : one of the smallest species of this genus 

 recorded. Long, 1\ mill. 



Hab. Pundaloya (Ceylon) : Mr. E. E. Green. 



