HEMlPTERA HETEROJPTEEA OF CETLOJf. 



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^ *tCALLIDEA PEBPLEXA. 



Tectocoris perplexa, Hope, Cat. Hemipt. p. 4, n. 11 (1837). 



Cimex nobilis, Siilz. {nee Linn.) Gesch. Ins. pi. xi. f. c (1776). 



Cimex nobilis, pt.. Fair. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 338, n. 2 (1781). 



Mr. Grreen's specimens are labelled " Putlam." 



A very common species in India and Ceylon, and it likewise 

 occurs in Burmali and Siam. Many of the older authors mention 

 Java as the locality ; but this probably arose from its being usually 

 mistaken for Cimex nohilis, Linn., which is a common species in 

 Java, China, &c., but apparently not found in India proper. 



Hope appears to have been the first author who discriminated 

 between the two species ; but as they are now placed in different 

 genera, most recent authors have retained the specific name 

 nohilis for both, calling one nohilis, Linn., and the other nohilis, 

 Fabr., which does not appear to be quite correct. 



The Cinghalese specimens are of an emerald-green, rarely in- 

 clining to violet-blue on the pronotum and at the base of the 

 scutellum, and never with the green of the whole insect replaced 

 by violet, but frequently with a strong coppery lustre over the 

 pronotum and a great part of the scutellum. The normal 

 spotting is as follows : — Two blue-black spots on the pronotum 

 and five on each side of the scutellum, three near the median line, 

 and two near the margins ; but all these spots are variously 

 developed in different specimens, and are not unfrequently 

 entirely obsolete. I believe these variations to be merely colour- 

 varieties of one species. 



\] *tCALLIDEA ErICHSONI. 



Callidea Ericlisoni, Germ. Zeifschr. Ent. i. p. 113 (1839). 



Usually confounded in collections with G. SfocJcerus, Linn., 

 which does not appear to occur in Ceylon. In some specimens 

 the black stripe at the tip of the scutellum is obsolete. 



This species is found swarming on trees (Phyllanthus, sp.) and 

 sucking the berries (^. E. G.). 



~ *t Callidea bengalensis. 

 Callidea ben^alensis, Rope, Cat. Hem. p. 15 (1837). 



Two specimens of this common Indian species are in Mr. Green's 

 collection. One of these was labelled " Chrysocoris patricia, 

 Fabr." % and Dohrn doubtless refers to the same species under 



\ Cimex patricms, Fabr. Suppl. Ent. Sj'st. p. 527 (1798). 



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