136 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 



anterior half of the median line, rest lutescent- whitish, with six black 

 spots, of which two oblong-, transverse, lie along the anterior margin ; 

 four, oblong or slightly cuneiform, longitudinal, towards the posterior 

 margin : scutellum lutescent- whitish, the middle pale orange, with two 

 ovate or semicircular black spots at the base, two minute triangular, 

 scarcely visible, at the basal angles, and two large triangular spots 

 towards the apex and whose bases rest on the margins, black : hemelytra 

 pale orange-yellow, with three somewhat rounded black spots arranged 

 triangularly : membrane black, tip pale : beneath, pale virescent with 

 6 — 7 rows of black spots, the marginal minute, not continued on the 

 pectus, sometimes indistinct, the second oblong, transverse, the third 

 sometimes confluent with the second and sometimes wanting, the median, 

 on the disc, oblong transverse. In EUenrieder's example from Sumatra, 

 the two anterior spots on the scutellum are ovate, the posterior trian- 

 gular, the orange-yellow space between them taking the form of a 

 cross ; 1 — 2 joints of antennee and the feet, rufous, femora indistinctly 

 annulate, tarsi fuscous-brunneous, beneath sordid lutescent, with, on 

 both sides, a lateral row of black spots and a median row of brunneous 

 spots. Long, 10 — 11 ; broad, 7J mill. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra, Burma, Tenasserim, Sikkim (mihi), 

 China. 



239. Antestia pulchea, Dallas. 



Pentatoma pulchra, Dallas (nee Westw.), List Hem. i, p. 253, (1851) : Walker, 

 Cat. Het., p. 300, (1867) : ? Stal, En. Hem. v, p. 128, (1876). 



? . Rounded ovate : head rather large, pale tawny, smooth and im- 

 punctate, with the sides narrowly margined : eyes black ; ocelli red : 

 pronotum with six black spots which occupy nearly the whole surface, 

 namely, a rather small oblong transverse spot on each side close to the 

 anterior margin, a larger one on each lateral angle, and two large some- 

 what quadrate spots, covering nearly the whole disc and reaching the 

 posterior margin ; the narrow anterior margin, the anterior portion of 

 the lateral margins, a tranverse line near the anterior margin, a median 

 lono-itudinal line, and a longitudinal line on each side running from the 

 transverse line to the posterior margin, are yellow ; the median longi- 

 tudinal line has an orange spot close to the anterior margin, the posterior 

 portion of the disc, with the exception of the median yellow line, is rather 

 strongly, but not very thickly, punctured, with the punctures black on the 

 lateral longitudinal yellow lines, and there is a line of 5 — 6 fine black punc- 

 tures on the yellow portions of the lateral margin close to the edge : scu- 

 tellum yellow, orange towards the base and at the apex, with a narrow 

 transverse black band, interrupted in the middle, at the base, and a large, 



