156 E. T. Atkinson — Notes un tndian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 



QS. PCECILOCORIS PURPURASCENS, WestwOOcl. 



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

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

 Pcecilocoris purpurascens, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 103, t. 13, f. 5 (1848) ; 

 List Hem. i, p. 13 (1851) : Walker, Cat. Het. i. p. 8 (1867). 



Pcecilochroma purpurascens, Stal, En. Hem.^iii, p. 13 (1873). 



(f, 9 ■ Ovate ; above variegated with violet and black, thickly and 

 strongly punctured : head nearly smooth, shining, slightly w^rinkled and 

 punctured at the base and the apex ; eyes and ocelli brown : pronotum 

 with a small red spot in the middle of the anterior margin, a correspond- 

 ing one on the posterior margin and a small streak of the same colour 

 on each side towards the lateral angles : scutellum with a small trans- 

 verse streak on each side before the middle, a smaller longitudinal one 

 towards the apex and an oblique one on each side of this, on the lateral 

 margins, bright red : margins of hemelytra violet-black : abdomen be- 

 neath slightly wrinkled, shining brassy-green, the margins violet with 

 an irregular, transverse, red streak on each side of the 2-5 segments : 

 anal apparatus brassy black : pectus violet and green, shining, finely 

 punctured, with a dull black patch on the meso- and meta-stethium : legs 

 violet-black : head beneath violet and green, shining, punctured : an- 

 tennae and rostrum, black (Dallas). Dallas observes that the normal 

 arrangement of the spots (indicated by the strong violet tints on various 

 parts of the surface) is the same as in P. drarcei. Body long 17 — 19 

 mill. 



Reported from Nepal, Sikkim. 



69. Pcecilocoris pulcher, Dallas. 



Pcecilocoris pulcher, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 105, t. 13, f. 7 (1848) : List 

 Hem. i, p. 13 (1851) : Vollenhoven, Fanne Ent. I'Arch. Indo-Neer. i, p. 5, t. 1, f. 2, 

 2a, (1863) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i. p. 8 (1867). 



Pcecilochroma pulchra, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 13 (1873). 



c? Ovate, deep velvety purple, closely and finely punctured : head 

 above of a vinaceous purple, below violet and green, shining, orange at the 

 base, with four longitudinal impressions along the tylus and two oblique 

 dotted hollows at the inner side of the eyes, blackish along the margins 

 of the lobes : eyes brownish, ocelli small, reddish : 1-2 joints of antennae 

 violet, smooth, rest black, pubescent : pronotum broadly margined with 

 red laterally and anteriorly, and with a narrow, median longitudinal line 

 of the same colour, on the disc, reaching the posterior border : scutel- 

 lum deep purple with the base (irregularly), a transverse band across 

 the disc before the middle, and a narrow median line uniting these one 

 to the other, also a small spot on each side of the latter (sometimes 



