1887.] E.T. Atkmson—Notes on Indian 'Rhjnchotfi. 153 



64. PcECiLOCORis ORNATUS, Dallas. 



Poscilocoris ornatuSf Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 15 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 9 

 (1867). 



Poecilochroma ornata, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 12 (1873) : Scott, A. M. N. H. (4 s.) 

 xiv, p. 289 (1874). 



Above orange-yellow, finely punctured with black : head rather 

 short, the tylus considerably longer than the juga, with the apex slight- 

 ly turned up ; vertex black, with three rows of golden green punctures 

 of which the lateral are broadest, and include the ocelli ; front of head, 

 deep red, punctured with violet and green ; the apex orange : thorax 

 with the anterior and lateral margins and two large spots on the pos- 

 terior margin, black, leaving only a narrow transverse band and a longi- 

 tudinal median line, orange ; scutellum with fine confluent black spots 

 on the basal half, forming a broad, irregular W ; four others across the 

 middle, united in pairs ; forming a band interrupted in the middle, and 

 two close to the apex ; all the black spots are tinted with violet and 

 bi'assy green ; abdomen beneath ochreous, very finely punctured, with a 

 large strongly punctured golden-green spot, on each side of every seg- 

 ment ; ventral furrow reaching the apex of the fifth segment ; pectus 

 testaceous, variegated with golden-green : femora of the same colour 

 with golden-green reflections ; tibiae brown, slightly metallic ; tarsi pice- 

 ous : rostrum yellowish-brown, with the tip black, reaching the middle 

 of the fourth ventral segment : antennae violet black ; basal joint 

 orange-black at the tip (Dallas). Long 15 — 15| mill. 



Reported from N. India, Japan. 



65. PCECILOCORIS DRUB-aii, Linn. 



Cimex drurcei, Linn., Mant. PI. ii, p. 534 (1771) : Drury, IIL Ins. i, p. 94, t. 42, 

 f. 1 & 5, a, b (1770) : Siilzer, Gescli. i, p. 95, t. 10, f . 5 (1776) : Fabr., Syst. Ent. 

 p. 097 (1775) : Spec. Ins. ii, p. 339 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii, p. 281 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. 

 iv, p. 83 (1794) ; Gmelin ed. Syst. Nat. i (4), p. 2129 (1788) : Stoll, Pnnaises, p. 147, 

 t. 37, f. 267 (1788). India. 



Tetijra druroel, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 132 (1803) : Burm. Nov. Acta Leop. xvi, 

 Suppt. i, p. 287 (1834). 



Scutellera drurcei, Germar, Zeitschr. i (i), p. 135 (1839). 



Pcccilocoris drmoei, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 103, t. 13, f. 6 (1848) ; List 

 Hem. i, p. 12 (1851) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 8 (1867). 



Pcecilochroma drurcBi; Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 12 (1873) ; Distant, A. M. N. H. 

 (5 s.) iii, p. 44 (1879). 



Scarlet : head and antennae black ; antennae 5-jointed, a little 



longer than the thorax, the two first joints, shortest : thorax convex, 



the lateral margins slightly reflexed, two saboval spots which form an 



obtuse angle with the head and are truncated on the sides, black : 



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