55<S BANKS. 



basal callosity and its lateral raai'gins not extending to lateral margin 

 of scutellum; a brassy-green, transverse isosceles-triangular spot on suli- 

 apical area. 



Sternum and costal margins of tegmina indigo. Posterior margin of 

 posternum, submedially and of mesosternum sublaterall}', dull ocbraceous 

 as are coxEe and niai'gins of stethi broadly. 



Abdomen ventrally ocbraceons, median area of second, third and poste- 

 rior area of sixth and nearly all of first segment, except lateral extremities, 

 indigo. Parastigmatal area irrorated with metallic Ijrown. Posterior 

 marginal area of genitalia metallic indigo. 



Bases of all femora more or less ochraceous, the remainder of leg, 

 including tarsi, indigo, tibia3 densely setose ventrally on apical half, and 

 sulcate dorsally. 



S exactly as S except that only the basal third of the genitalia is 

 ochraceous. 



Length 13-14 millimeters; width of pronotum 7.5-8 millimeters. 



Palawan, Bacuit, P. I., (C. M. Wchcr. collector). 



Types of $ and S No. 11G53 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of 

 Science, Manila, P. I. 



Another pair, S and 5 labelled as paratypes. The S of the paratype 

 has only four segments in the right antenna, it being shortei' than the 

 left which is normal. The right apical segment is as long as the preap- 

 ical, plus one-half the apical of the left antenna. 



I take great pleasure in dedicating this strikingly beautiful insect to 

 my friend, W. L. Distant, whose work with the Phynchota needs no 

 comment. 



12. Cosmocoris pulcherrimus sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 1.) 



9 dark blue, green, black and red. Head with basal area and tylus 

 black, lateral lobes purplish blue, obsoletely transversely striate and 

 punctuate; eyes and ocelli reddish brown; pronotum punctate, black and 

 blue on posterior area and medially to anterior margin, irrorated at 

 posterior lateral angles with metallic green and with two submedian, 

 longitudinal blue fascia3; anterior lateral areas, including margins and 

 angles, '^■ermilion, which color extends over propleurse and to anterior 

 margins of mesopleurre; mesonotum black, opaque; basal fourth of scutel- 

 lum vermilion, median half blue with a faint transverse metallic green, 

 waved fascia medially; apical fourth broadl}'. Innately vermilion; basal 

 lateral margins purplish blue, coarsely punctate or granulate; entire 

 scutcUum minutely punctate, the punctures being connected by micro- 

 scopic lines on median apical area. 



Dorsum of abdomen vermilion with a transverse black, lunate spot on 

 last segment. 



Ventral surface of head, thorax and basal abdominal segment dark 



