46 PENTATOMIDiE. 



Poecilocoris obsoletus, Dull. Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 104, 5 (1848) ; 

 Atk. he. cit. p. 154. 



Eeddish-oebraceous ; head, two large and irregularly shaped 

 discal spots to pronotum, thirteen spots to scutellum (situate five 

 at base, two central immediately behind the basal series, four in 

 transverse series near centre, and two subapical), body beneath 

 (excluding the lateral areas of prosternum and the central area of 

 abdomen), legs, antennae, and rostrum black or violaceous-black. 



Var. a. Spots larger, and on scutellum becoming more or less 

 confluent. 



Var. h. Spots becoming smaller till they are practically obsolete ; 

 abdomen beneath reddish-ochraceous, with marginal and apical 

 spots only bluish-black (P. ohsolehis, Dall.). 



In all the forms the basal margin of the corium varies from 

 black to reddish-ochraceous, and it can always be separated from 

 P. hardwicTcii by the absence of the black anterior margin to the 

 pronotum. 



Length 18 to 22 ; width between pronotal angles 12 to 13 millim. 



Eah. Sikhim, Bhutan. Assam ; Khasi Hills ; Noa-Dehing 

 Valley (CJiennell) ; Naga "Hills and Margherita (DoJierty), Burma: 

 Kakhyeng Kauri, Karen Ashwe, and Karennee (Feci). — Also 

 received from Hong Kong and Formosa. 



86. Poecilocoris childreni, WMte (Tectocoris), Ma(/. N. H. (2) ill, 



p. 542 (1839) ; id. (PcecilocLroma) Trans. Ent. Soe. iii, p. 84, pi. 7, 

 f. 1 (1842) ; Dall. Trans. Ent. Soc. v,p. 106 (1848) ; -S'^S^ { Pcecilo- 

 chroma), Fn. Hem. iii, p. 13. 10 (1873) ; Atk. J. A. S. B. Ivi, 

 p. 157 (1887). 



Eeddish-ochraceous ; head, anterior and lateral margins and four 

 subbasal spots to pronotum, three obconical basal spots to scutellum, 

 followed by eight other spots arranged transversely two, four, and 

 two, legs, antenna3, and rostrum black : head beneath, sternum, 

 central transverse segmental spots and smaller lateral segmental 

 spots to abdomen bluish-black ; femora beneath shiny greenish- 

 black. 



Length 19 to 20 ; width between pronotal angles 12 millim. 



Hab. Bhutan (Brit. Mus.). 



87. Pcecilocoris crowleyi, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 61 (1901). 



Head black, anterior lateral areas metallic-green ; pronotum 

 purplish-red, a small transverse spot near each anterior angle, 

 a spot near each lateral angle, and two large spots at base, occupying 

 more than half of the whole area and very narrowly diAided, 

 black ; anterior margin, margins of the basal spots, and the sub- 

 lateral areas metallic-green ; scutellum purplish-red, with eleven 

 black spots (three small on basal margin, two near base, two sub- 

 apical, and four central which are united in pairs), basal margin, 

 and margins of spots metallic-green ; disk with a violaceous tinge. 



