1888.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. "55 



tuse ; membrane blackish, margin whitish : two black semibifid spots on 

 the pronotum: abdomen beneath red, in the middle with four transverse 

 spots, on each side with a somewhat double row of black points, of which 

 the one marginal with five somewhat conical points, the other interior, 

 with six somewhat round points, with abrighter pupil in the middle 

 (/Scop.)' Long, 8 J mill. 



Var. herbacea, Hahn : — Antennae and feet black ; the shining black- 

 green head narrowly edged red anteriorly : above punctured, red : the 

 anterior and posterior black-green markings on the pronotum united : on 

 the inner margin of the hemelytra. a broad, black green-tinted, _J-shaped 

 mark turning outwards which is also produced inwards on to the scu- 

 tellum, towards the apex, a black spot, and, on the outer margin, another 

 somewhat larger : abdomen beneath red, black in the middle, black with a 

 blue tint, and on each incisure, on each side, a small black-blue spot : 

 wings brown with a greenish tint and whitish limbus. Long, 7^ — 8| ; 

 broad, 4 — 4^ mill. 



Wolff's specimen is thus described : — 



Head, antennae, and rostrum, black ; pronotum, scutellum, and heme- 

 lytra red, punctured : head punctured, subemarginate at the apex, poste- 

 riorly with a bifid impressed small line ; spot on both sides before the 

 black eyes and the very slender margin, red ; rostrum 4-jointed, 

 red at base ; antennae 5-jointed ; pronotum with a spot on both sides, 

 posteriorly bifid, black : scutellum with spot at base not reaching margin, 

 and one on both sides before the apex close to the spot on the hemely- 

 tra, black ; a somewhat elevated small longitudinal line in the middle : 

 hemelytra with a free spot at the apex, another larger at exterior margin 

 towards the base, and a median spot confluent with the slender black 

 limbus, black ; membrane black, limbus whitish : margin of abdomen 

 prominulous, red, with four black quadrate spots ; beneath yellow-ferru- 

 ginous with five marginal spots and the same number of elevated points, 

 black : pectus concolorous, with small impressed, curved black lines ; 

 anus entire, blackish ; feet black, femora at base and tibiae annulated 

 yellow-ferruginous {Wolff). Abdomen beneath sometimes red, with four 

 transverse, black spots : pronotum sometimes with six black spots. 



Reported from the Sind Valley. 



203. EURYDEMA PULCHRUM, Wcstwood. 



Pentatoma pulchra, Westw., Hope, Cat, Hem. i, p. 34 (1837). Java. 



Strachia pulchra, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 258 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. iii, p. 

 332 (1868). 



Eurydema sumatrana, Ellenr., Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. xxiv, p. 152, f. 20 (1862). 



Eurydema pulchra, Stal, En. Hera, v, p. 86 (1876) : Sign., B. S. E. F, (6 s.)i, 

 p. xh (1881). China. 



