186 Mr. W. S. Dallas's Notice 



XXXVI. Notice of some Hemipterous Insects from Boutan 

 {East Indies), with Descriptions of the new Species. By 

 W. S. Dallas, Esq., F.L.S. 



[Read February 5th, 1849.] 



Having been kindly permitted by Dr. Horsfield to examine the 

 Hemiptera belonging to the museum of the East India Company, 

 I have now the pleasure to lay before the Society a note of those 

 species of ScutclleridcE and Pentatomidcs contained in a small 

 collection of Hemipterous insects from Boutan. I have thought 

 it better to give a list of all the species in this collection, as 

 Boutan (or Bhotan) is a district in the extreme north of India, 

 almost entirely surrounded by hills, and from this isolated position 

 its Fauna becomes interesting. A good many of the species have 

 been originally described from Javanese specimens. 



Fam. SCUTELLERID^. 



Of the ScutcUeridce we have the ^Australian and Javanese Tec- 

 tocor'is Banksri, Don. ; Poscilocoris Drurcci, Lin. ; P. Childreni, 

 White, and P. Hardnichi, Hope. Of one of the species of Pceci- 

 locoris the collection contains the larvae, apparently in the last 

 state, with a memorandum attached, to the effect that the insect is 

 " said to infest the tea plants particularly." Of this family there 

 are also CalUdea ahdominalis, ^^'''pzirm and Roylii, Hope, and a 

 new species, nearly allied to the last mentioned, which I have 

 named 



Sp. 1. Callidea spinigera. (Plate XIX. fig. 1.) 



C. fusco-testacea, violaceo-vel seneo-nitida, thoracis angulis la- 

 teralibus in spinam parvam acutam productis, abdominis 

 margine crenato, rubro, violaceo-variegato, $ $ . 



Long. $ lin. 7, $ lin. 7\, hemelytrorum membrana inclusa. 



Broadly ovate, rather convex. Above brownish testaceous, 

 with violet or brassy reflections, very thickly and finely punc- 

 tured. Head violet, shining, faintly punctured and transversely 

 wrinkled, the central lobe darker in colour. Eyes brown ; ocelli 

 red. Thorax faintly punctured, with the lateral angles produced 

 into a small acute spine on each side, the anterior and lateral mar- 

 gins, and in the male the whole anterior portion, coppery or violet, 

 shining ; on each side, towards the anterior margin, is a small 



