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Normally (in Ceylon) deep scarlet ; antennse (except the base of the 

 first segment), eyes, membrane and a spot of variable size on the corium, 

 tibiae, tarsi, &o., black ; anterior margin of pro-notum pale yellowish- 

 red. Sterna and venter adorned with ten transverse white stripes. In 

 some examples the femora and the sublateral stripe on the anterior part 

 of the pro-notum are more or less blackish ; in others the elytra, 

 pro-notnm, &c., are yellowish or yellowish-green instead of red. 



Long. $ 10—14 mill., 9 14—16 mill. 



India : Cawnpore, Seringapatam, Cossipore, Kirkee, &g. Ceylon : 

 Peradeniya, Hambantotta, Pundaluoya, &o. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 New Guinea, Cochin China, China, Philippines, New Caledonia, 

 New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, Australia, &c. Principally from 

 Cotton ( Gossypium herbaceum\ but also recorded from Bottle Gourds 

 (Lagenarla vulgaris), Muskmallow (Hibiscus adelmosJms) and Cabbage 

 {Brassica oleracea). 



The o-enus Dysdercus is well known for the injury it causes to Cotton, 



thouo-h more notorious perhaps in the New World than in the Old. 



In the former, D. suturellus (Schaff) and D. andrece (Linn.), and in 



the latter, D. cingulatus (Fabr.), are " eotton-stainers." Having received 



nvmphs in three instars from Mr. Green, I have been able to construct 



a skeleton life history of the last-named, filling in some of the gaps 



from the details known of the American species (15) ; but as a good 



deal still remains to be done, and I hope to be able to examine other 



stages later on, the instars actually examined have not been described 



here. It may, however, be interesting to note that these three stages 



are apparently structurally separable from the corresponding stages of 



D. suturellus, figured and described by Riley and Howard. 



Family Lyg^eid.e = Coreidje auctt. 



Sub-family Nehn^. 



= Berytidas, Letli. and iSev. 



Hubertiella, gen. nov. 



Cardopostetho, Fieberi affinis, capite supra convexo, rostro meta- 



sterni niargiuem apicalem attiugente, segmento-primo capite breviore. 



Pronoto posterius elevato, trituberculato posterius ; meso-sterno ac 



meta-sterno sulcatis orificiis, meta-sternalibus permagnis. Scutello 



brevi, subhemisphsericali, spina longa ac curvata basim terminata. 



Typo II. cardamomi. Kirk. 



(15) See Eiley and Howard " The Eedbng or Cottou-stainer, " 1889, Insect Life, I, 

 pp. 234—12. 



