SCUTELLERA. 



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Fior. 21. — Scutelkra fasciata. 



Callidea lanius, Sm, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Foi'h. 1854, p. 231. 1. 

 Sciitellera aiuethystina, Voll. Faun. liuJ. Need. \, p. 12. 2 (1863). 

 StoU, Pun. ff. 49 et 251. 



Body above metallic bluish-green or purplish ; central lobe to 

 head and a short fascia near inner margins of ejes, three longi- 

 tudinal fasciae to pronotum (the two outermost broken and 



macular) and a spot at 

 each posterior angle, a cen- 

 tral fascia on the scutellum 

 narrowing to about its centre, 

 with a spot on each side 

 near the base, a transverse 

 concave fascia before middle,, 

 and a convex macular fascia 

 at about one-third from 

 apex, also betw-een these 

 fasciae a spot on each lat- 

 eral margin, and the apex,, 

 dark indigo-blue or blackish ; 

 lateral margins of the pro- 

 notum and the connexivum 

 ochraceous ; body beneath, rostrum, and legs reddish-ochraceous ; 

 head excluding base, lateral areas of sternal segments, apical 

 two-thirds of rostrum, lateral fasciae to abdominal segments and 

 .stigmata! spots to same, apices of femora, the tibiae and tarsi dart 

 indigo-blue or bluish-gi'een ; basal joint of antennae ochraceous, its 

 apex and remaining joints blackish. 



Var. The ground-colour above, fasciae, and spots purplish-brown. 

 Length 17-22 ; width between pronotal angles 7 to 9 millim. 

 Hah. Sikhim. Bombay Presidency: Belgaum. Burma: Pegu 

 {Coll. Dist.). — Grenerally distributed in the Malayan Archipelago j 

 received from Java, Celebes, Amboina. 



97. Scutellera nobilis, Fabr. (Cimex) Si/st. Ent. p. 697. 2 (1775) ; id. 

 (Cimex) Spec. Ins. ii, p. 338. 2 (1781) ; id. (Cimex) Mant. ii, 

 p. 280. 2 (1787) ; id. (Tetyra) Syst. Rhyrig. p. 129. 6 (1803) ; Lam. 

 Hist. Nat. iii, p. 491. 1 (1816) ; Hahn (Tectocoris), Wanz. Ins. 

 iii, p. 24, f. 247 (1835) ; Gevm. (Calliphara) Zeitschr. i, p. 124. 2 

 (1839); Ath. J. A. S. B. \\\, 2, p. 161 (1887). 

 Tectocoris perplexa, Westw. in Hope Cat. i, p. 4 (1837); Kirby 

 (Callidea), /. Linn. Soc, ZooL xxiv, p. 75 (1891). 



Allied to the preceding species, S. fasciata, but differing in the 

 absence of the transverse fasciae above ; the scutellum has usually 

 the central fascia indistinct or obsolete, bet bears six small discal 

 spots arranged in pairs, and a lateral spot on each side near the 

 centre. 



Length 17 to 21 ; width between pronotal angles 7 to 9 millim. 



Hab. Sind (Coll. Dist.); Karachi (Ind. Miis.). Dehra (Ind. 

 Mus.). Assam ; Manipur (Ind. Mus.) ; A^orth-east Frontier 

 (Chennell). Bombay {Leitli) \ Calcutta; Malabar: Trivandrum ; 



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