160 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No, 2, 



74. Tetrarthia lineata, Walker. 

 Tetrarthia lineata, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 18 (1867). 



Ferruginous-red, fusiform, bright-red beneath : four stripes on the 

 head and beneath on both sides, five stripes on thorax, of which the 

 outer pair are oblique, its anterior and lateral margins, a dot on each 

 side of the anterior margin of the scutellum and two oblique streaks 

 which converge hind ward and a broad stripe on each side of pectus, 

 emerald-green : antennae piceous, fourth joint pale yellowish towards 

 the base : scutellum with a luteous dot on each side at two-thirds of the 

 length : abdomen beneath with two rows of black spots on each side 

 and with a black subapical patch : legs pubescent ; tibiae and tarsi 

 above and femora towards their tips tinged with green : wings brown : 

 costa of the corium purple. Var. ? No emerald-green markings: head 

 bluish-black : thorax bluish-black in front and on each side : scutellum 

 with no luteous dot : pectus blackish (Walker). Long, 14| mill. 



Reported from Hong-Kong ; variety from Burma. 



75. Tetrarthria variegata, Dallas. 



Tetrarthria variegvta, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 20, t, 1, f. 1 (1851) ; Stal, Of vers. 

 K. V.-A. Forh. p. 616 (1870) ; En. Hem. iii, p. 14 (1873). 



Tetrathria margine-punctata, VoUenhoven, Faune Ent. TArch. Indo-Neer. p. 13, 

 t. 1, f. 6 a-b (1863) ; Walker, Cat. Het. iii, p. 508 (1868). 



Tetrathria quinquemaculata, A. Dohrn, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 347 (1863). 



Head black, with some scattered, coarse punctures, the lateral 

 margins and two parallel longitudinal lines brassy-green; eyes pale 

 brown ; thorax with a large, semicircular brassy green patch on the 

 disc, touching the posterior margin, and surrounded by a broad dull red 

 band which runs from one posterior angle to the other ; four spots on 

 the disc, near the posterior margin, of which the two intermediate are 

 largest, and the anterior and lateral margins black : scutellum brassy 

 green in the middle, the margins dull red, punctured and thickly 

 clothed with fine golden hairs, with a large black patch in the middle 

 of the base, two small spots of the same colour immediately behind this, 

 and two large ones on the lateral margins immediately behind the mid- 

 dle ; a large T-shaped black patch occupies the disc of the scutellum , 

 formed by a transverse band, before the middle, and a median longitu- 

 dinal one which reaches nearly to the apex, and is furcate posteriorly : 

 abdomen beneath red, with broad black margins : rostrum red : legs 

 black with the basal half of the femora bright red : antennae black with 

 the basal joint reddish and a pale band near the base of the fourth joint 

 (Dallas). Varies in having the scutellum and thorax rufous-testace- 

 ous : anal segment in (5* truncate at apex ; finely erosulous and in the 

 middle with a somewhat prominent tooth. Long, 16f mill. 



