PACHYCORIS. . 15 
This is one of those extremely variable species which frequently appear in the 
Scutellerine, and in its protean aspect even more than rivalling Tectocoris lineola of 
the Oriental and Australian regions. J. torridus is found in the Nearctic fauna, and 
probably extends throughout the whole length and breadth of the Neotropical Region. 
Vollenhoven described and figured as Pecilocoris eneiventris a form which apparently is 
only a variety of this species ; and though its habitat is given as “in India Orientali,” he 
states that the type was a solitary specimen in the Royal Museum, “ sans indication 
spéciale de patrie, mais provenant de |’Archipel Indien.” 
The following are the well-marked varietal forms which have been received from 
Central America. 
BENEATH DARK SHINING GREEN. 
Var. a. (Tab. I. fig. 1.) 
Above black or obscure purplish. Pronotum marked with eight, scutellum with fourteen rounded spots, varying 
in colour from bright sanguineous to luteous. In some specimens the spots are subequal in size ; in others 
they are very unequal, which is instanced in the specimen figured, received from Caché, Costa Rica. In 
other specimens of this form the discal transverse series of four spots are enlarged and slightly fused. 
Var. 0. 
Resembles var. a, as figured above, but pronotum with only six spots. 
Var. ¢. 
Pronotum as in var.a. Scutellum with macular markings on apical half very irregular. The whole fourteen 
spots are never present, sometimes only one is absent, generally two or three. 
Var. d. (Tab. I. figg. 2 & 3.) 
Pronotal spots as in var. a. Scutellum with the apical five spots much enlarged and irregularly fused. In one 
specimen which is figured from Mexico the central longitudinal spots on the pronotum are also fused 
together. , 
Var. e. (Tab. I. fig. 4.) 
Pronotum with five, six, eight, or in one specimen no spots. Scutellum with the number of spots irregular, 
but the two marginal ones always very large. 
Pachycoris torridus, var. e, Stal, En. Hem. 1. p. 6. 
This appears to be the form described by Burm.! as P. klugit. 
Var. f. (Tab. I. fig. 5.) 
Above dull rufous. Pronotum with two large triangular black markings at base, two small ones on disk near 
lateral margins, and with two larger obscure spots of the same colour on anterior margin. 
Var. g. 
Resembling var. f, but pronotum and scutellum spotless, concolorous. 
Var. h. (Tab. I. fig. 6.) 
Colour above as in two preceding vars. Pronotum with four irregular transverse black fascie ; two basal, and 
two apical and submarginal. Scutellum with two transverse waved fascie near base, two small spots placed 
close together on disk, and two rather larger ones placed severally on each lateral margin a little beyond 
middle; these spots and fasciz are black. 
This var. seems to resemble var. /, Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 6. 
