HEMTPTERA HETEROPTERA. -il'-) 



patch on each side. Abdomen beneath with two irregular and interrupted 

 emerald-green stripes, and with a large patch near the tip of ihe same 

 hue; some tawny dots along each side. Coxae tawny; femora dark 

 green. Fore wings extremely thickly and minutely punctured ; membrane 

 aeneous-brown. Length of the body 17 lines. 



The thorax is more dilated in front than that of P. stabile, but less so 

 than that of P. amplicolle. 



a. Siam. From M. Mouhot's collection. 



14. Pycanum pallipes. 



Nigro-viride, subtilissime et confer tissime punctat.um, sublus pallide luteum ; 

 caput margine postico vitlaque interrupta pallide luteis ; antenna 

 lutece, articulo 2o supra fusco varia, 3o fusco apice flavo, 4o nigro 

 basi fiavo ; thorax luteo peranguste marginatus, transverse et scite 

 striatus, lateribus anticis valde dilatatis rectangulaiis longitudinaliler 

 striatis ; scutellum transverse rugulosum ; abdomen dor so purpureo, 

 connexivo viridi fusco-rnarginato ; alee anticce rufescente nigricuntes , 

 membrana smaragdina. 



Blackish green, pale luteous beneath. Head, thorax and scuteilum 

 very thickly and minutely punctured. Head pale luteous behind and with 

 an interrupted stripe of that hue. Eyes pale luteous, with ferruginous 

 disks. Antenna; luteous; second joint more or less brown above; third 

 brown, yellow towards the tip, much shorter than the second; fourth black, 

 yellow towards the base, a little shorter than the second. Thorax with a 

 very narrow luteous border, transversely and finely striated; fore part on 

 each side much dilated, longitudinally striated, forming a well defined 

 right angle. Scutellum transversely rugulose. Abdomen above purple; 

 connexivum deep green, bordered with brown and at the tip with pale 

 luteous. Fore wings blackish, irregularly red about the borders ; membrane 

 emerald-green. Hind wings blackish cinereous. Length of the body 

 12 lines. 



It seems to form a link between the genera Pycanum aud Dalcantha, 

 and in the latter genus it has most affinity to D. regia. 



a, b. — North Hindostau. Presented by Capt. Strachey. 



Genus 18. DALCANTHA, C. H. 345. 

 1 . Dalcantha dilatata, C. H. 345. 



a, b. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



c. Silhet. 



d. Hindostau. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



2. Dalcantha inermipes. 

 inermipes, Stal, Trans. Enl. .S'oc. Land. 3rd Ser. i. 599. 

 a. Pnnjaub. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



