102 Mr. W. S. Dallas's Sketch 



antepectus pale red, with a violet-black spot at the base of the 

 anterior legs. Thighs testaceous, their apices, with the tibiae 

 and tarsi, shining violet-black. Head beneath yellowish in the 

 centre, with its margins violet. Antennae black, the two basal 

 joints with a violet tinge. Rostrum testaceous, with the two last 

 joints black, the apex attaining the base of the fourth segment of 

 the abdomen. 



The Museum specimens of this beautiful species, which, from 

 its form, may be considered as the link uniting this genus with 

 Tectocoris, have the five spots in the centre of the base of the 

 scutellum confluent, forming the large patch which is seen at this 

 part ; in the normal state they would be arranged exactly as in P. 

 Drurcei. In this particular it agrees with 'J'etyra Donovani, Burm.,* 

 (Nova Acta, &:c. vol. xvi. p. 286, Tab. 41, fig. 1,) and also in the 

 absence of the two subapical spots, and the length of the rostrum ; 

 but the difference in the form, and in the general colouring of the 

 two insects, is too great to admit of the supposition of their identity. 



Sp. 2. P. interruptus, Hope. 

 P. rotundato-ovatus, nigro-a^neus ; thorace margine postico, 

 lineaque curva longitudinali utrinque, scutello linea sub- 

 media transversa interrupta, margineque apicali, coccineis ; 

 abdomine nigro-seneo, rubro-variegato, ano nigro ; pectore 

 toto, pedibusque nigris. $, $. 

 Long. lin. 7 — 9. 

 Hab. in Nepal. 

 In Mus. Brit. 



Tectocoris interrupta, Flope, Cat. p. 14. 

 Scutellera int., Germ. Z. vol. i. p. 134; H. Sch. vol. v. p. 73, 



pi. 172, fig. 531. 

 Broadly ovate, rather flat ; above brassy black, thickly and 

 finely punctured. Eyes pale brown; ocelli red. Prothorax with 

 the posterior margin, and a curved longitudinal line on each side, 

 within the lateral angles, bright red. Scutellum with a narrow 

 transverse line on the disc near the middle, interrupted in the 

 centre, and the apical margin, bright red; [margins of elytra brassy 

 black ;] margins of abdomen black, variegated with bright red. 

 Abdomen beneath black, shining, slightly brassy, the bases of the 

 second, third, fourth and fifth segments, in the middle, and a mar- 

 ginal spot on the junction of each segment, red. Anal apparatus 

 black, margined with red in the female. Breast brassy black, 

 thickly and finely punctured. Antennae, rostrum and legs black, 

 * This species approaches very closely to P. Hardwickii. 



