HEMIPTERA. 23 



Tetyra Baro, Fab. S. R. 129. 3 (1803); Schiodte, Kroy. Tijds. 



iv. 279. 1 (1842). 



Calliphara Baro, Germ. Zeits. i. 127- 11 (1839). 

 Eucorysses pallens, Am. & Serv. Hem. 31. 1. pi. 1. fig. 4 



(1843). 



a. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's Collection. 



b. Silhet. From Mr. Stainforth's Collection. 



c. China (Fow-choo-foo). Presented by G. Tradescant Lay, 



Esq. 



d. China (Hong Kong). Presented by J. C. Bowring, 



Esq. 



e. . Presented by General Hardwicke. 



/. . From Mr. Birch's Collection. 



4. CALLIDEA grandis. 



Cimex grandis, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. 31. pi. 2. fig. 46 (1783). 

 Calliphara grandis, Germ. Zeits. i. 128. 13 (1839). 

 a. Java. 



5. CALLIDEA sexmaculata. 



Scutellera sexmaculata, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. 36. pi. 14 (1814). 

 Calliphara Iris, Germ. Zeits. i. 128. 12 (1839); H. Sch. Wanz. 

 v. 80. t. 171.%. 526 (1839). 



a. Java. From the East India Company's Collection. 



b. China? 



6. CALLIDEA superba, n. s. 



C. elongato-ovata, violacea vel viridi-aurea, nigro-maculata, ab- 

 dornine fulvo, margine violaceo. 

 Long. lin. 91-10. 



Above brilliant golden green, becoming dark violet after death. 

 Head impunctate ; its base, a longitudinal central line and the 

 inner margin of the orbit, black. Prothorax very faintly and 

 sparingly punctured; posterior margin, a longitudinal central 

 line, two spots on each side of this (of which the anterior is 

 smallest and sometimes wanting), and another in each lateral 

 angle, black. Scutellum very thickly and finely punctured, more 

 coarsely towards the basal angles ; basal elevation impunctate ; 

 two black spots near the base, united by a transverse line, which 

 runs in the basal furrow ; two large transverse spots near the 

 middle, two others behind these, forming a black band, inter- 

 rupted in the middle, and a rounded one near the apex. Abdo- 

 men orange-yellow, with the margins golden green ; the stigmata, 

 a large spot at base and apex of abdomen and a short transverse 

 line in the centre of the posterior margin of each segment, black. 



