HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA OF CEYLON. 77 



beneath mostly tawny yellow, tbe middle of the basal segments 

 black; a magenta- coloured stripe above the spiracles, which are 

 blue -black, and form the upper side of an oval, which is di- 

 rected forwards, and is green in the middle and blue-black at 

 each extremity ; terminal segments black, spotted with green 

 on the sides. 



A very handsome species, allied to O. superia, DalL, but 

 smaller and differently coloured. 



Pundaloya. 



HOTEA CUECUIilONIDES. 



Pachycoris curculionides, Herr.-Sch'dff. Wans. Ins. iii. p. 106, pi. evil, 

 f. 331 (1836). 



Abundant throughout the Indo-Malayan and a great part of 

 the Austro-Malayan Eegion, and recorded from Ceylon by 

 Dohrn. 



*(?)TEIGO]SrOSOMA CONFtJSTJM, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 11 millim. 



Leather-coloured above, thickly punctured, a yellow line 

 visible from one shoulder-projection to the other (in front of 

 which the thorax and head fall away perpendicularly), and also 

 round the projecting rim of the abdomen, which extends just 

 beyond the scutellum. Head and front of thorax paler than 

 the upper part, the front of the thorax thickly marked with 

 black punctures, which are crowded together in such a way as 

 to give the appearance of irregular transverse mottling. Thorax 

 above with large obtuse lateral angles, projecting slightly for- 

 wards and outwards ; on the hinder border of the thorax is a 

 black stripe, not extending to the sides, but throwing out four 

 square projections in front. Scutellum unspotted, but with a 

 shallow bowl-shaped space at the base lighter than the rest. 

 Under surface tawny brown, mottled with darker, especially on 

 the sternum ; legs paler tawny, unspotted ; antenuse wanting. 

 (N.B, The measurement given is from the crest of the thorax.) 



Described from a specimen presented to the British Museum 

 by a Mr. Paul in 1849. Some of his insects (including the 

 few Hemiptera) are said to have come from Ceylon, and others 

 from Egypt. The present specimen was referred by Dallas to 

 T. Desfontainei, Eabr., and by Walker to 1\ MscJieri, Herr.- 

 Schaff. (of w^hich T. JBaerensprungi, Stal, is regarded as a syno- 

 nym) ; but it does not agree well with the descriptions of any 



