1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 157 



wanting), shining violaceous : margins of the hemelytra brownish pur- 

 ple : abdomen with a strong furrow at the base, bright red, with a 

 violet reflection, smooth, shining, very finely and moderately punctured; 

 a black spot around each of the stigmata and a faint band of the same 

 colour across the terminal segment : anal plate red : pectus purple va- 

 riegated with violet and greenish tints, shining, thickly and finely punc- 

 tured, the antero-lateral margins and lateral angles, red : femora brassy, 

 purple ; tibiaB, shining violet ; tarsi black : rostrum brassy black, basal 

 joint pale pinkish violet. Spots as in P. drurcdi except that the two 

 subapical ones are wanting, others easily traced in the violet tints of 

 the base, and the broad band a.cross the middle of the scutellum. 

 (Dallas). Body long 18-19 mill. 



Reported from Malabar, Sumatra. 



70. PffiCILOCORlS CHILDKENI, White. 



Tectocoris childreni. White, Charlesworth Mag. N. H. iii, p. 542 (1839). 



Tectocoris {Poecilochroma) childreni, White, Trans. Ent. Soc. iii, p. 84, t. 7, f. 1 

 (1838). 



Pcecilocoris childreni, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 106 (1848) ; List Hem. i, p. 

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



Poecilochroma childreni, Stal, iii, p. 13 (1873). 



Head (including eyes, antennee, and rostrum) black, distinctly 

 margined ; ocelli yellow : thorax and scutellum yellowish-fulvous, the 

 former in front black, the black colour extending in a narrow line along 

 the slightly raised lateral margin, with four transverse black spots, 

 the two dorsal ones larger and rather quadrate : legs green : scutellum 

 obtuse, with eleven black spots, three at the base, the median one tri- 

 angular and largest, two behind these sub-rotundate, four in the middle 

 (the two inner largest) and two near the tip : hemelytra black, some- 

 what shining ; body beneath, purplish black, sides of abdomen with 

 four transverse yellow lines, sometimes confluent at the base and form- 

 ing a yellow patch, end of abdomen green (WJiite). Long, 18 ; breadth 

 of pronotum, 11 mill. 



Reported from Nepal, Sikkim. 



The spots on the scutellum are placed, — three basal, of which the 

 median one is large, triangular and produced on each side at the base, 

 in such a manner that it appears as though in the normal state there 

 would be an additional spot on each side, as in P. drurcei ; two behind 

 these, a row of four across the disc, rather behind the middle and two 

 subapical. Distinguished from P. drurcei by the broad, black anterior 

 margin of the pronotum and the black anal plates : from P. hardwickii 

 by the margins of all the segments of the abdomen being violet-black 



