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in the middle from which proceed black rays running along the anterior 

 margins of the segments and between these rays are small transverse 

 black lines {Voll.)- Long 3 1 — 4 mill. $ ; 4 — 4J mill. ^. 



Reported from Japan, Cochin-China, Burma, India, Ceylon, Timor, 

 Sumatra ; the Indian Museum has examples from Java, Calcutta, Sib- 

 sagar and Dikrang valley (Assam). The Sumatran specimens have the 

 yellow inclined to orange, those from Bengal are paler. 



16. COPTOSOMA PAEDALINA, Stal. 

 En. Hem. v, p. 13 (1876). 



Yellow : pronotum behind the middle and on the impressions, finely 

 punctured, the scutellum rather more strongly punctured, the punctures 

 on the scutellum confluent in subreticulate and irregularly confluent 

 masses and small lines, posteriorly less numerous, finer on the basal 

 half: head semicircularly rounded before the eyes, margin narrow 

 tylus and two triangular spots black : pronotum with the two typical, 

 black transverse lines before the middle : pectus and venter black ; 

 ventral limbus and double row of lateral spots on each segment, flaves- 

 cent ; the anterior spot large, subtransverse, posterior spot small, some- 

 times very minute. Easily distinguished from G. cribraria by the head 

 anteriorly more gradually rounded, dorsal punctuation stronger, marking 

 blacker and more extended and the absence of lateral spots produced in 

 long rays on the venter. Very like G. lyncece, Stal, from Australia, differs 

 in the punctuation and the black dorsal marking also in the sparingly 

 punctulate base of scutellum and the ventral marking (^Stdl) Long, 4| ; 

 breadth of pronotum, S^ mill. 



Reported from India. 



17. COPTOSOMA NEPALENSIS, Westwood. 



Coptosoma nepalensis, Westwood, Hope Cat. Hem. i, p. 17 (1837) : Stal. En. 

 Hem. V, p. 13 (1876). 



Thyreocoris nepalensis, Germar, Zeitschr, i, (i), p. 28 (1839). 



Thyreocoris circumscriptus, Germar, 1. c. p. 29 (1839). 



Coptosoma nepalense, Dallas, List. Hem. i, p. 63 (1851). 



Coptosoma circumscriptum^ Dallas, 1. c. p. 63 (1851) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 86 

 (1867). 



Coptosoma cinctum, Vollenhoven, Fanne Ent. TArcli. Indo-Neer. i, p. 46 (1863). 



Brassy black, very shining, punctured : head small, with two whit- 

 ish cuneate spots before the eyes : pronotum with a very slender lateral 

 and anterior border (interrupted in the middle), and a sublateral, an- 

 gulated line, whitish ; two small basal dots and a slender border on the 

 scutellum, whitish ; antcnnte pale f tiscous : feet whitish ; femora fus- 



