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VI. Ncio Malaijan Rhynchota. By W. L. Distant. 



[Read April 7th, 1909.] 



Plate X. 



The following descriptions refer to Malayan Rhynchota 

 recently acquired by the Britisli Museum. Since Snellen 

 van Vollenhoven published his " Essai d'une Faune 

 Entomologique de L'Archipel Indo-Neerlandais," we know 

 much more of the beautiful Rhynchota of this prolific 

 region, and here we must acknowledge the excellent work 

 of Stal, as well as the descriptive industry of Walker, while 

 other more recent writers have added to our knowledge. 

 We still, however, know only a fragment of the Malayan 

 Rhynchotal fauna in comparison with our much fuller 

 enumeration of the Lepidoptera — especially the Rhopalo- 

 cera, of the same region. 



HETEROPTERA. 

 Family PENTATOMIDAE. 



Genus Poecilocoris. 



Poecilocoris, Dall., Trans. Ent. Soc, v, p. 100 (1848). 

 Type, P. driiraei, Linn. 



Poecilocoris croesus, sp. n. (Plate X, fig. 1.) 



Head purplish -brown, the lateral lobes sanguineous ; antennae 

 with joints 1, 2, 3 bluish-black ; 4, 5 black ; pronotum sanguineous, 

 with two very large discal purplish spots which are centrally only 

 divided by a narrow line, on each spot anteriorly is a transverse 

 narrow green fascia ; scutellum for rather more than half its length 

 purplish, posteriorly containing a prominent transverse metallic- 

 green fascia, a more obscure basal transverse fascia of the same 

 colour but centrally obsolete, apical area sanguineous, containing 

 two central j^urplish spots ; body beneath with the sternum purplish- 

 red suffused with metallic-green, the area of the odoriferous apertures 

 opaque black, abdomen purplish-red, with prominent black spots 

 near the stigmata ; legs with a bluish or greenish lustre ; rostrum 

 black. 



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