152 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncho<a. [No. 2, 



ing violet : the posterior greater part of the thorax (except two round 

 black spots), a broad transverse band above the middle of the scutellum 

 having forwards four and hindwards three obtuse teeth, and the apical 

 margin of the scutellum, sanguineous. In it, the subbasal spots on the 

 scutellum are confluent so as to form a black band more or less broad, 

 posteriorly dentate ; whilst in T. affinis, Westwood both the sub-basal 

 and sub-apical spots are wanting. Jf. hardwickii in Dallas' figare, 

 forms the mean between these two extremes. 



Reported from India, Nepal, Silhat : the Indian Museum has spe- 

 cimens from the Khasiya and Naga hills, Sibsagar and Sikkim. 



63. P(ECiLOCORis LATUS, Dallas. 



PcBcilocoris latus, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 101, t. 13, f. 4 (1843) j List Hem. 

 i, p. 12 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 9 (1867). 



Poecilochroma lata, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 12 (1873). 



(5* , 9 , Rounded- ovate, not very convex ; above yellow, clouded with 

 orange- red, thickly punctured : head violet, shining, thickly and strong- 

 ly punctured ; eyes brown ; ocelli red : pronotum thickly punctured, 

 somewhat rugose, with the anterior angles, and two large spots on the 

 disc, extending to the posterior margin, deep blue- violet : scutellum 

 thickly and finely punctured, slightly wrinkled transversely at the base ; 

 with a spot in each basal angle, a large, irregular, transverse patch in 

 the middle of the base, and a transverse row of four spots of which the 

 two intermediate are by much the largest, across the disc, behind the 

 middle, deep blue-violet ; the surface around all the spots clouded with 

 orange-red : margins of hemelytra, black : abdomen beneath red, im- 

 maculate, thickly and finely punctured, and slightly pilose, with a strong 

 median furrow at the base : anal apparatus reddish : pectus thickly 

 punctured, yellowish, variegated with blackish violet, the prostethium 

 pale red, with a violet-black spot at the base of the anterior legs : 

 femora testaceous, [sometimes violet-black] their apices with the tibiae 

 and tarsi shining violet-black : head beneath yellowish in the middle, 

 with its margins violet : antennaa black, the two basal joints with a 

 violet tinge : rostrum testaceous with the two last joints black, the tip 

 reaching the base of the fourth ventral segment. In some the fine 

 spots in the middle of the base of the scutellum are confluent but nor« 

 mally they are as in P. Druroei, Dallas. Body, long 19-21 mill. 



Reported from China, Assam. The Indian Museum has specimens 

 from Assam. The variety with the five spots at the base of the scutel- 

 lum confluent agrees with P. donovani, Burm. in this particular, and also 

 in the absence of the two subapical spots and the length of the rostrum, 

 but differs in form and general colouring. 



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