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Vai'. a. Paler ochraceous, pronotum with the spots smaller and 

 the basal ones often obsolete ; scutellum with the three discal 

 spots, the anterior one smaller and the lateral ones more trans- 

 verse, the fascia and apical spot wanting ; two lateral ochraceous 

 spots to prosternum and one to metasternum. (0. baro, Fabr.) 



Fig. 24. — Chr ysocor in grand h, var. h. paUcns. 



Var. h. Differing from var. a by the absence of any markings 

 to the pronotum, the central spot to the scutellum is also 

 frequently absent. 



Length 18 to 24 ; width between pronotal angles 9 to 13 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim. Assam : Margherita {Doherty) ; jN'orth Ivhasi 

 Hills (ChemieU) ; Niiga Hills {Ind. 3his.). Burma : Bharao, 

 Kareunee, Mt. Mooleyit (Fea). — Also recorded from China and 

 Japan. I have received the species from Ja-\a. 



The vars. a and h are alone kuoun to me from our Indian region. 

 The typical form of the species T have received from Japan *. 



102. Chrysocoris superbus, Uall. (Calhdea) List Hnn. i, p. 23. 6 

 (18ol) ; Kirby (Callidea), J. Linn. Soc, Zool xxiv, p. 76 jl891) ; 

 Stal (Chrysocoris (Eucorysses)) En. Hem. m, p. 18. 1 (1873). 



Dark indigo-blue ; central lobe of head and inner margins of 

 eyes, posterior margin of pronotum, also three central longitudinal 

 fasciae, of which the two outermost are broken and macular, 

 a spot at each lateral angle, and seven large transverse spots 

 {arranged six in pairs and one subapical) on the scutellum, legs, 

 antennae, and rostrum black ; abdomen beneath ochraceous, 

 its lateral and apical margins bluish, the stigmatal spots and a 

 central transverse linear spot on each segment black ; coxaj, base 

 of head beneath, and base of rostrum luteous ; area of the 

 odoriferous apertures dull black. Second joint of the antennae 

 almost as long as the third. 



Length 19 to 23 : width between pronotal angles 10 to 11 millim. 



Hah. Malabar {Coll. Dist.). Ceylon : Peradeniya {E. Green). 



* An allied species, C. iris, Germ., has been stated by Atkinson to be recorded 

 from Tenasserim, but I can find no confirmation of this habitat. 



