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



Orange yellow or carneous : head yellow, the base and antennaa 

 coerulean ; pronotum and scutellum carneous, the former with some- 

 times many, sometimes fewer flavescent spots, some with a black point 

 scutellum large, with a small impressed moon-shaped black spot on 

 each side at the base, then three yellow rings marked with a black 

 point, the median larger, behind the middle are two small yellow 

 lunules spotted black and posteriorly rings with a black point in the 

 middle : pectus cyaneous : abdomen carneous with four cyaneous ma- 

 cular striaB ; of which the median are larger : feet cyaneous, femora 

 rufous : varies with the sex, with thorax having on both sides a very 

 acute, incurved porrect spine, yellow at base, black at apex ((7. dispar, 

 Fabr.). Long 14-23 mill. Very variable in the colour above, from a 

 pale sordid yellow to a deep rich orange-red, and in the spots on the 

 pronotum and scutellum, from almost immaculate with merely traces of 

 spots, to the full number ; all these varieties occur in India. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra, Philippines, China, India. The 

 Indian Museum has specimens from Assam, Sikkim, N. India, Malabar, 

 Ceylon, China. 



Genus Pcecilocoris, White, Dallas. 



Pcecilochroma, White, Trans. Ent. Soc. iii, p. 84 (1842) : Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 11 

 (1873) : P(Bcilocoris, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 100 (1848) ; List Hem. i, p. 4 

 (1851) ; Stal, Hem. Afric, i, p. 33 (1864) ; Mayr, Reise Novara, Hem., p. 17 (1866) ; 

 Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 8 (1867). The name Pcecilochroma was used by Stephens in 

 1829 for a Lepidopterous genus of Tortrices, and Dallas with White's consent 

 changed the name of the Hemipterous genus to Pcecilocoris in 1848 and described 

 it for the first time, so that for very good reasons, the new name must stand. 



Body ovate, convex : head rather large, broad, the lateral margins 

 sinuated before the eyes : antennae about half the length of the body, 

 5-iointed ; basal joint short, robust ; second, shorter and most slender ; 

 3-5 joints each as long as, or longer, than the two basal united, nearly 

 equal, compressed, broad and furrowed longitudinally on the sides : 

 rostrum usually extending beyond the second segment of the abdomen, 

 sometimes nearly to its apex : scutellum slightly truncated at the apex : 

 abdomen with a more or less distinct furrow beneath ; the three penul- 

 timate segments in the (5* not bearing the dull space on each side which 

 exists in TedocoriSy Hahn, and the anal plate, in c? , simple, formed of 

 one piece, sinuated at the tip and fringed with hairs (Dallas). 



62. Pcecilocoris hardwickii, Westwood* 



Tectocoris Hardwiclcii, Westwood, Hope, Cat. i, p. 13 (1837). 



Tectocoris affi^nis, Westwood, 1. c. p. 13 (1837). 



Pachycoris nepalensis, Herr. Schaffc". Wanz. Ins. iv, p. 1. t. 109, f. 339 (1839). 



