of the Genus Pcecilocoris. 107 



Drurcei by the broad black anterior margin of the prothorax, and 

 the black anal plates ; from the following species, P. Hardwickii, 

 by the margins of all the segments of the abdomen being violet- 

 black ; and from both, by the presence of four spots on the disc 

 of the prothorax, and by the entire breast being violet-black. It 

 is probable that, in the normal condition, the disc of the abdomen 

 may be yellow or orange, margined with black, as in P. Drurcei, 

 for in one of the specimens in the British Museum there exists, in 

 addition to the transverse lines on each side, a narrow longitudinal 

 line in the centre, which crosses two or three of the segments. 



Sp. 8. P. Hardwickii, Hope* (PI. XIII. fig. 8.) 

 P. ovatus, luteo-fulvus vel sanguineus; thorace antice maculis- 

 que 2 nigris ; scutello nigro-maculato vel variegato ; abdo- 

 mine rufo, basi, segmentis marginibus lateralibus, penultimo 

 et terminaliexceptis, segmento ultimo anoque, nigro-violaceis; 

 pectore (marginibus antero-lateralibus exceptis) pedibusque 

 nigro-violaceis. ^, $. 

 Long. lin. 8—10. 

 Hab. in India. 

 In Mus. Brit., &c. 



Tectocoris Hardwickii, et affinis, Hope, Cat. p. 13. 

 Pachycoris Nepalensis, H. Sch., Wanz. Bd. 4, p. 1, Tab. 109, 



fig. 339. 

 Scutellera Hardwickii, Germ. Z., vol. i. p. 135. 

 Ovate, convex, above yellowish-orange or red, opaque, rather 

 thickly and finely punctured. Head black, thickly and strongly 

 punctured ; eyes and ocelli brownish. Thorax with the anterior 

 portion, and two large spots on the disc, black. Scutellum slightly 

 wrinkled transversely at the base; in the normal state with eleven 

 black spots, placed, three at the base, of which the central one is 

 large, elongated-triangular, a small round one on each side of the 

 apex of this, a transverse row of four across the disc, behind the 

 middle, the two intermediate of which are the largest, and two 

 smaller towards the apex. These spots are generally either more 

 or less confluent, or partially obliterated, forming numerous varie- 

 ties, as noted below. Margins of the elytra pitchy black. Abdomen 

 beneath orange-red, very faintly wrinkled, the basal segment en- 

 tirely, the second, except the middle, the third and fourth on the 

 lateral margins, the terminal segment, except its lateral margins, 



• The insect described by Burmeister (Nova Acta, &c., vol. xvi, p. 286), 

 under the name of Tetyra Donovani, very closely resembles ihis species, with 

 which it may perhaps be identical ; in this case Burmeistei's name must supplant 

 Hope's. 



