Rhynchota collected in Japan. 419 



" Cette espece ne peut etre confondue avec aucune 

 autre ; en taille elle se rapproche du Tritomegas bicolor, 

 en couleur du Crocistethus Waltlii ; mais par le canal 

 ostiolaire sans ouverture ou fissure elle se distingue de 

 tous les Sehirides. 



" Hab. Sapporo." 



Pcecilochroma leivisi, n. s. (PI. XIX., fig. 1). 



<? . Above bright emerald-green, thickly and darkly 

 punctate, and with the following red markings : pronotum 

 with the posterior margin continued in an arcuate 

 discal fascia and connected with a central longitudinal 

 fascia ; scutellum with two central basal <-shaped 

 fasciae, two discal oblique fasciae angularly connected at 

 centre (the connection sometimes imperfect) and with a 

 transverse subapical fascia, which is lineately widened 

 at centre and continued along the apical margin. Body 

 beneath with the head and sternum bright emerald-green ; 

 posterior margin of pro sternum — broadly at angles — 

 ochraceous ; posterior margin of mesosternum, and whole 

 area of odoriferous apertures, opaque silky fuscous ; abdo- 

 men ochraceous, with a broad central and outwardly angu- 

 late greenish-black fascia ; the anal appendage and a 

 marginal segmental row of large pyriform spots of the 

 same colour ; legs and rostrum bright emerald-green. 

 Antennae black, finely pilose ; 3rd, 4th, and 5th joints 

 subequal in length ; eyes more or less ochraceous, ocelli 

 red. Besides the punctuation above, there is also a more 

 or less irregularly distributed dark carinate reticulation. 



? . Larger and broader than the male ; markings 

 above similar, beneath with the legs ochraceous ; lateral 

 margins of the head, bases of acetabula, some lateral 

 suffusions on sternum, upper apices of femora, and the 

 tibiae, more or less bright and pale shining greenish ; 

 anal appendage, a lateral row of segmental spots and a 

 few central basal spots to abdomen, and apical portion 

 of the rostrum, very dark greenish black. 3 , long. 

 16 mm.; exp. lat. angl. pronot., 10 mm. ?, long. 

 19 mm. ; exp. lat. angl. pronot., 11| mm. 



Hab. Nikko, Kashiwagi, Chiuzenji, Yokohama. 



This species is nearest allied to the North-east Indian 

 P. interrupta, Hope. 



