1887.] E. T. Atkinson— iVofes on Indian Rliynchota. 31 



in each lateral one-third) and four spots on the scutelliim, red (Qermar). 

 The feet are cinnamon-colour, brown towards the base ; the broad red 

 border of the abdomen is bidentate on each segment and has large black 

 spiracula : scutellum with a yellow line within the free black border. 

 Long, 6 mill. 



Reported from Tranquebar, Assam : the Indian Museum has speci- 

 mens from Sikkim and Samaguting (Assam). 



15, CoPTOSOMA CRIBKARIA, Fabricius. 



Cimex crihrarius, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt. p. 531 (1798). 



Tetyra crihraria, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 143 (1803) : Schiodte in Kroyer's Nat. 

 Tidsskr. iv, p. 305 (1842). 



Thyreocoris' crihraria. Burm. Handb. ii (i) p. 384 (1835) : Germar, Zeitschr i, (i) 

 p. 26 (1839) ; Herr. SchJiff. Wanz. iv, p. 84, t. 134, f . 416 (1834) and v, p. 31 (1839) . 



Coptosoma cribrarium, Am. & Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 66, t. 2, f. 4, (1843) j 

 Dallas, List Hem. B. M. i, p. 67 (1851 ; Vollenhoven, Faune Ent. rArch. Indo-Neer. 

 i, p. 50 (1863) ; Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 6 (1868). 



Coptosoma atomarium, pt. Vollen. 1. c. i, p. 50 (1863) ^ . 



Coptosoma crihraria, Walker, Cat. Het. B. M. i, p. 87 (1867) ; Stal, En. Hem. 

 V, p. 12 (1876) : Scott, A. M. N. H. (4 s.) xiv, p. 289 (1874) ; Distant, Trans. Ent. 

 Soo. p. 414 (1883). 



Body small, somewhat round : thorax and scutellum flavescent, with 

 very numerous impressed fuscous spots : scutellum somewhat emarginate 

 at the tip: abdomen dull black in the middle; feet yellow (Fabr.). 

 Long 3^ — 5 mill. 



Vollenhoven's G. atomarium (nee Germar) is the <? of G. crihraria 

 and is of a greyish or greenish-yellow, irregularly covered with deep 

 black punctures on the posterior portion of the pronotum and on the 

 scutellum : the head is small with an extremely fine edging of black on 

 the anterior margin, a crescent-shaped black line on the vertex extend- 

 ing from one eye to the other : antennae yellow, with the tip of the last 

 joint brownish : eyes red : pronotum divided into two unequal parts by 

 a row of excavated brown points, in front of this row there is sometimes 

 a waved brown line ; the posterior is punctured black : basal elevation 

 on scutellum not tumid, excavated points larger but more distant than 

 those on the thorax ; beneath, head and pronotum yellow : meso- and 

 meta-thorax slaty-grey ; abdomen shining black with a broad yellow 

 margin in which are the finely black-irised stigmata : feet yellow, last joint 

 of tarsi, brown. Vollenhoven makes Q. crihraria differ from his G. ato- 

 marium in its usually greater size, colour egg-yellow or greenish-yellow : 

 punctuation blacker and smaller, the row of points on the pronotum is 

 not so straight ; scutellum throughout with a submarginal black line 

 except on the basal elevation : abdomen yellow, with a large black patch 



