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93. Pcecilocoris rufigenis, Dcdl. List Bern, i, p. 14. 10 (1851) ; Atk. 

 J. A. «S'. B. hi, p. 158 (1887) ; Stal (Pcecilocliroma), En. Hem. iii, 

 p. 13. 14 (1873). 



Ochraceous, head sometimes purplish ; base and central lobe of 

 bead, a small spot near each anterior angle of pronotum, basal 

 margin of scntellum and a spot touching lateral margin on each 

 side near centre, transverse segmental spots to sternum and 

 abdomen, legs, rostrum, and antennae black or bluish-black. 



Var. a. Two small central discal spots to scutellum near base, 

 and another pair near apes. 



Var. 5. Like var. a, but with two additional discal spots to 

 scutellum near centre. 



Length 19 to 23 ; width between pronotal angles 11 to 13 millim. 



Hah. Assam : Margherita {Doherty). Burma; Karennee i^Fea). 



Genus TETRARTHRIA. 



Tetravthria, Dall. List Hem. i, pp. 3 & 20 (1851) ; Stal, Hem. Afr. i, 

 p. 33 (1864) ; id. En. Hem. lii, p. 8 (1873). 



Type, T. variegaia, Dall. 



Distribution. Burma, Malay Archipelago, China. 



Body elongate ; head with the central lobe longer than the 

 lateral ones, lateral margins sinuate ; rostrum long, reaching the 

 posterior margin of the fourth abdominal segment ; antennae of 

 four joints, basal joint shortest, not reacliing the apex of the head, 

 remaining joints about equally long ; abdomen furrowed longi- 

 tudinally. 



94. Tetrarthria variegata, Dall. List Hem. i, p. 20, pi. i, f. 1 (1851) ; 



iStdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 14 (1873). 

 Tetiarthvia inai-ginepunctata, T^oll. Faun. I/id. Neerl. i, p. 13, pi. i, 



f. 6, a, b (1863). 

 Tetrarthria 5-maculata, Dohni, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 347. 2 



(1863). 

 Tetrarthria cougrua S,- lateralis, Walk. Cat. Het. i, pp. 20 & 21 



(1867)._ 

 Tetrarthria variegata, var. lateraLs, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) iv, p. .34 



(1899). 



Head black, the lateral margins and two longitudinal lines brassy- 

 green. Pronotum with a large semicircular brassy -green patch on 

 the disk, touching the posterior margin and surrounded by a 

 broad dull red fascia, which extends from one posterior angle to 

 the other ; four discal spots near the posterior margin and the 

 anterior and lateral margins black. Scutellum brassy-green in the 

 centre, the margins dull red, inwardly anguiated, a black patch in 

 the basal centre, tw^o small spots of the same colour immediately 

 behind it, and two large ones on the lateral margins behind the 

 middle; a large T-shaped black patch occupies the disk of the 

 scutellum. Abdomen beneath red, with broad black margins ; 



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