of the Genus Pcecilocoris. 105 



Ovate, above bright velvety red, thickly punctured. Head and 

 eyes black ; ocelli reddish. Thorax with the anterior and lateral 

 margins smooth, shining, rather coarsely and irregularly punc- 

 tured ; two indistinct yellowish patches within the anterior angles, 

 and faint indications of two elongated violet spots on the disc. 

 Scutellum slightly wrinkled transversely at the base, and with in- 

 dications of eleven violet spots, placed five at the base, two behind 

 these, and four in a transverse row across the middle ; the apical 

 portion orange, finely reticulated with red. Margins of elytra 

 bright red, thickly and coarsely punctured. Abdomen red, shining, 

 with a few scattered punctures, and a faint longitudinal furrow at 

 the base ; the basal segment pitchy black, a small spot round each 

 of the stigmata, and a large crescent-shaped one on the terminal 

 segment, black. Anal apparatus red. Breast violet-black, shining, 

 finely and sparingly punctured, a dull space on each side of the 

 medi- and post-pectus; the antero-lateral margins and the lateral 

 angles red. Thighs brownish, slightly tinted with brassy, their 

 apices, the tibise and tarsi, brassy black. Head beneath shining 

 violet, punctured, yellowish at the base. Antennae black, the 

 three basal joints tinted with violet and brassy, the two apical 

 covered with short greyish hairs. Rostrum pitchy. 



This insect was recently sent from Hong Kong by John C. 

 Bowring, Esq. ; it is very nearly allied to the preceding, the spots 

 being arranged in exactly the same manner ; but the two sub- 

 apical ones are wanting, whilst the red colour of the margins of 

 the elytra, the colour of the legs, the peculiar texture of the 

 margins of the thorax, and the clothing of the tw^o last joints of 

 the antennae, seem to mark it as a distinct species. 



Sp. G. P. pulcher, White, MS. (PI. XHI. fig. 7.) 

 P. ovatus, purpureus, thorace antice, marginibus lateralibus, 

 lineaque centrali coccineis; scutello basi, fasciaque lata media 

 violaceo-tinctis ; abdomine coccineo, stigmatibus nigris ; ano 

 rufo ; pectore (marginibus antero-lateralibus exceptis) pedi- 

 busque nigro-purpureis. $. 

 Long. lin. 9. 

 Hab. in Malabar. 

 In Mus. Brit. 



Ovate, deep velvety purple, thickly and finely punctured. Head 

 shining, strongly punctured, blackish at the base, and along the 

 margins of the lobes ; eyes brownish ; ocelli reddish. Thorax 

 broadly margined with red laterally and anteriorly, and with a 

 narrow, central, longitudinal line of the same colour on the disc. 



