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transverse basal fascia on scutellum and six spots (one discal, 

 obconical, and subbasal, four arranged in pairs, and one sabapical), 

 apices of femora, tbe tibiae and tarsi, rostrum, antenna', some 

 lateral streaks to sternum, a transverse spot at base of alidomen, 

 and nearly the whole of the apical segment, black ; lateral margins 

 of abdomen violaceous ; stigmatal spots black, inwardly margined 

 with greenish and connected on the third, fourth, and fifth 

 segments with an inner transverse black spot : head beneath, 

 excluding base, and the areae of the coxa; metallic green tinged 

 with violaceous. 



Length 9 2 to 10 ; width between pronotal angles 5 millim, 

 Hab. Sikhim (/ucZ. il/M,s\). Assam : Naga Hills (i)o7ter<//) ; Mar- 

 gherita {Ind. Mus.). Burma : Karennee (Fea). 



A small species, to be recognized by its unique coloration and 

 by the deep transverse incision to the pronotum. 



C. Lateral margins of the pronotum laminatehj produced and 

 rounded. 



a. Abdomen betieath darl; ivithout ocliraceous disad area. 



116. ChrysOCOris eques, Fahr. (Cimex) Ent. Sijst. iv, p. 79. 2 (1794) ; 

 id. (Tetyia) Syst. Rhymj. p. 131. 13 (1803) ; Guer. (ScLitellera) 

 Voy. Coq., Zool. p. 158. 3 (1830) ; Burm. (Callidea) Handh. 2, 1, 

 p. 394. 1 (1835) ; Ball. List Mem. i, p. 28. 25 (1851) ; Amy. ^■ 

 >Serv. (Galostha) Hhn. p. 33. 1 (1843) ; Stal, Bern. Fabr. i, 

 p. 11. 3 & p. 12. 12 (1808) •,^Atk.^ J. A. 8. B. Ivi, p. 179 (1887). 



Var. rt. Callidea schwaiiei'i, Foil. Faun. Tnd. Neerl.\,n.2'd. 18, pi •'>, 

 f. 7 (1863). 



Var. b. Var. nicobarensis, Atk. Proc. A. 8. B. 1887, p. 13. 



Var. c. Callidea formosa, Westio. in Hope Cat. Hem. i, \) ]5 

 (1837). 



Callidea dorsalis, White in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 80 (1842). 



Greenish or bluish above ; central fascia to head, sometimes 

 bifurcating towards the apex, and generally a spot before each eye, 

 a central fascia on pronotum, generally broken and forming two 

 spots, followed on each side by two similar spots, sometimes three, 

 an anterior lateral streak and a spot at each lateral angle, on 

 scutellum a small central basal spot, a discal anteriorly bifurcating 

 spot, three spots on each side, anda subapical spot, all black ; discal 

 area of body beneath dark bluish or blackish, lateral areas greenish • 

 stigmatal spots, antennae, and rostrum black ; legs dark bluish- 

 green. 



Yar. a. is a local Bornean race and need not be described here. 



Var. h. Nicobarian race ; usually larger and more brassv-o-reen. 

 In an Andaman specimen agreeing with this race small portions 

 of the disks of the fourth and fifth abdominal segments are 

 ochraceous, thus approaching C. dilaticoUis, Guer. 



Var. c. Not apparently represented in our fauna. 



Length 11 to 14 ; width between pronotal angles 6 to 8 

 millim. 



