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PBNTATOMID^. 



Nilgiri Hills {Hampson) ; Madras {Ind. Mus.) ; Bangalore (Ind. 

 Mus.). Ceylon (Oreen). TeMasserim : Moulmein (Fca), Tavoy 

 {Ind. Mus.). — The species is also found in China, 



S. nobilis, like S. fasciata, varies in coloration from bluish-green 

 to purplish-brown, and this change of hue may represent develop- 

 mental changes. I possess a ticket on one of Dr. Leith's Bombay 

 specimens : " At last ecdesis, the integument bright red, changing 

 in patches to purple, blue, and finally green.'* 



Genus BRACHYAULAX. 



Erachyaulax, StSl, Ofc. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1870, p. 616 ; id. En. Hem. 

 iii, p. 9 (1873). 



Type, B. rufo-macidcda, Stal. — A species from the Philippines. 



Distribution. India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, China, Java. 



Allied to the preceding genus Scutellera, from which it differs 

 principally by the shorter and smaller odoriferous apertures, and 

 by having the abdomen only sulcated at the base. The pronotum 

 is very distinctly transAersely impressed before its centre. 



98. Erachyaulax oblonga, Westw. (Tectocoris) in Hope Cat. i, p. 14 



(1837) ; Germ. (Calliphara) Zeitschr. i, p. 129 (1839) ; Ball. 



(Scutellera) Li^t Hem. i. p. 19. 8 (1851) ; Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) 



iv, p. 3-5 (1899). 

 Scutellera cvaneovitta, maculigera, & buprestoides, Walk. Cat. Het. 



i, p. 16 (1867). 

 Scutellera pubescens, Walk. op. cit. m, p. 507 (1868). 



Bluish-green or indigo-blue ; antenna?, central lobe of head, and 

 a spot at the area of each eve, six spots on the pronetum arranged 

 in two transverse series, the posterior largest, ten spots on the 



scutelium — three basal, the 

 middle one linear and elon- 

 gated, two before the middle, 

 sometimes attached to the 

 lateral margins and some- 

 times connected, two small 

 and lateral, sometimes con- 

 nected with the preceding, 

 two a little before apex 

 sometimes connected, and 

 one subapical, — black ; late- 

 ral margins of the pronotum 

 and sternum (sometimes 

 absent), lateral margins and a central basal discal patch to abdomen 

 irregularly ochraceous or reddish-ochraceous, the basal ochraceous 

 space generally black-spotted. The transverse impression and the 

 anterior margin to the pronotum are very coarsely punctate. 

 Length 13| to 14^ millim. 



Hah. Sikhim. North T\h;isi Hills (ChenneU) ; Xaga Hills 

 (Doherti/). Burma : Bhamo, Mitanga (Fea). — Also Malay Peninsula, 

 Java, and China. 



Fig. 22. — Brachijaufax ohionga. 



