30 CATALOGUE OF 
with three large purple spots on each side; a slight transverse furrow, 
which is curved to the fore border on each side; tip purple. Abdomen be- 
neath red, with black dots along each side and with a black subapical 
patch. Legs red; femora towards their tips and tibie purple; tarsi black. 
Length of the body 7 lines. 
Allied to C. Stockerus, but with different markings. 
a. Hindostan. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 
Ceylon. 
20. CauiipEa supeRBA, C. H, 23. 
a. Ceylon. From Dr. Gardner’s collection. 
b—e. Ceylon. From Major Parry’s collection. 
f. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming’s collection. 
g. Amboina. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
21. CaLLIDEA CONTRARIA. 
Aurato-viridis ; caput antice purpureum; antenne nigre, articulo 1o 
purpureo ; thorax maculis duabus anticis vittisque septem abbreviutis 
purpureis ; sculellum maculis tribus anticis, fasciis tribus (2a inter- 
rupla) maculisque tribus posticis purpureis ; abdomen subtus rufum, 
disco purpureo, guttis lateralibus nigris ; pedes cyaneo-virides. 
Gilded green, short, stout, nearly elliptical, rather thinly and rougbly 
punctured. Head purple in front, with two longitudinal furrows, which 
diverge on the vertex. Antenne black; first joint purple; second more 
than half the length of the first. Thorax with seven short purple stripes, in 
front of which there is'a transverse purple spot on each side. Scutellum 
with three purple spots near the base, and with three purple bands, of 
which the second is interrupted ; three hinder transverse spots, one on each 
side and one subapical. Pectus purple. Abdomen red ; under side with a 
row of black dots along each side and with a purple disk. Legs bluish 
green; tarsi black. Length of the body 5 lines. 
This species and C. gibbula agree with C. lateralis in shape, but differ 
much from it in markings. The two specimens recorded under C. lateralis 
muy be two distinct species. 
a. Hindostan. Presented by Sir John Hearsay. 
22. CALLIDEA SPILOGASTRA. 
Purpurea ; caput vitta nigro-cuprea, maculis duabus viridibus ; antenne 
nigre ; thorax vitla media integra vittisque duabus lateralibus inter- 
ruplis abbreviatis niyro-cupreis ; scutellum striga lanceolata, maculis 
seplem magnis duabusque parvis nigro-cupreis, apice nonnunguam 
viridt ; abdomen subtus vittis tribus luteis ramosis abbreviatis. 
Deep purple. Head with two longitudinal furrows, which converge 
slightly on the vertex and towards the face, and include a blackish cupreous 
stripe; a bright green spot on each side of the hind border. Antenne 
black ; second joint much shorter than the first. Thorax with a roughly 
punctured transverse furrow, and with three broad blackish cupreous stripes ; 
the stripe on each side interrupted in the middle and abbreviated near the 
fore border ; a transverse furrow on each side, forming a fusiform ringlet. 
Scutellum with blackish cupreous markings ; a lanceolate streak extending 
along rather less than half the length from the base; three large spots on 
