1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 155 



shining, finely and sparingly punctured, a dull space on eacli side of the 

 meso- and meta-stethium ; the antero -lateral margins and the lateral 

 angles red : femoi'a brownish, slightly tinted brassy^ their apices, the 

 tibiae and tarsi, brassy black ; head beneath shining violet, punctured, 

 yellowish at the base : antennas black, the three basal joints tinted with 

 violet and brassy, the two apical covered with short greyish hairs ; 

 rostrum pitchy (Dallas). Long, 19 mill. 



Reported from Hong-Kong : I possess specimens from Assam and 

 Sikkim. Dr. Stal united this species with P. drurcdi, and, although 

 the indications of spots are arranged in exactly the same manner as in 

 P. drurcei, the two subapical ones are generally wanting, whilst the red 

 colour of the margins of the hemelytra, the colour of the legs, the pecu- 

 liar texture of the margins of the thorax, and the clothing of the two 

 last joints of the antennae, mark it as a distinct species. In some, be- 

 neath, the colouring is exactly as in the jJi'eceding, whilst, in others, the 

 pectus and venter are entirely brassy green, and only the anal apparatus 

 and the antero-lateral and lateral margins of the pectus are red. 



67. Pd-^ciLOCORis iNTERRUPTtJS, Westwood. 



Tectocoris interrupta, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 14 (1837). 



Scutellera int-^rrupta, Germar, Zeitschr. i (i), p. 134 (1839) : Herr. Schaff., Wanz* 

 Ins. V, p. 73, t. 172, f. 531 (1839). 



Poscilocoris interriiptits, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 102 (1848)^ : List Henl. 

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



PoBciloChroma interi'Upta, Stal, En. Hem. iiij p. 13 (1873). 



Broadly ovatcj rather flat ; above brassy black, thickly and finely 

 punctured : eyes pale brown, ocelli red : pronotum with the posteriof 

 margin and a curved longitudinal line on each side, within the lateral 

 angleSj bright [orange] red: scutellum with a narrow, transverse line 

 on the disc near the middle, interrupted in the middle, and the apical 

 margin, bright [orange] red : margins of hemelytra brassy black, of 

 the abdomen black, variegated with bright red ; abdomen beneath, blacky 

 shining, slightly brassy, the bases of 2-5 segments in the middle, and 

 a marginal spot on the junction of each segment, red : anal aparatus, 

 black, margined with red in the 9 : pectus brassy black, thickly and 

 finely punctured : antennae, rostrum and legs, black (Dallas) . Dallas 

 remarks that in a long series of this insect there is no indication of dis- 

 tinct spots, but it is probable that the anterior margin and two spots on 

 the disc of the pronotum are black, and that the spots on the scutellum 

 are arranged much as in P. hardivickii. Body long 15-19 mill. 



Reported from Nepal, India. The Indian Museum has a specimen. 



