1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 161 



Walker remarked that T. margine-punctata, Voll. was probably only 

 a variety of T, variegata, Dallas ; and i<. is now recognized as sucli. The 

 type of this variety has the borders of the body above and the entire 

 body below covered with a grey villosity ; head a little pnnctured, with 

 a glossy chocolate-brown line in the middle ; two longitudinal lines and 

 the border of the eyes, golden-green ; antennae pale brown, pubescent ; 

 base of fourth joint whitish : eyes brown, ocelli yellow ; pronotum 

 punctured, with a row of deep dots on the anterior border, preceding a 

 transverse glossy space which is of a chocolate -brown, the border being 

 golden-green : disc of pronotum and scutellum purplish black with se- 

 veral obscure metallic-blue lines : border surrounded by a row of yellow 

 triangular patches : body beneath yellow with some golden-green lines 

 on the head and pectus ; ventral borders marbled with brown ; 5th and 

 6th segments altogether brown ; rostrum pale yellow, with the tip 

 obscure : coxoe and half of femora of a pale yellow, other half deep 

 brown : tibiae and tarsi, yellowish brown. Long, 15 mill. A Silhat 

 specimen is paler and has the border of the scutellum interrupted at the 

 tip. 



Reported from Phillipines, Java, Tondano, Celebes, Silhat. The 

 Indian Museum possesses specimens from Sibsagar (Assam). 



Genus Scutellera, Lamarck. 



Syst. p. 293 (1801) : Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 4, 18 (1851) : Walker, Cat. Het. 

 i, p. 15 (1867) : Stal, Hera. Afric. i, p. 33 (1864) ; En. Hem. iii, p. 9, 14 (1873) : 

 Mayr, Reise Nov. Hem, p. 17 (1866). Includes Calliphara, Am. & Serv. Hist. 

 Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 30 (1843), nee Germar. 



Body subsericeous or pilosulous, very oblong : head triangular, ob- 

 tuse, sloped : rostrum extending beyond the second ventral segment : 

 antennae 5-jointed, second joint not or only a little shorter than the first, 

 fourth the longest : pronotum with a transverse linear impression be- 

 fore the middle, generally strongly punctured, the base distinctly trun- 

 cated, posterior angles distinct, posterior margin of propleura generally 

 distinctly sinuated at the angles, anterior margin obtuse, thickened, 

 slightly amplified near the presternum : the meso-sternum furrowed : 

 venter furrowed beyond the middle ; the furrow of the orifices very 

 long, gradually curved forwards towards the apex, the part of the me- 

 tapleura situate before the furrow, smooth, shining : feet rather long. 



76. Scutellera nobilis, Fabricius. 



Cimex nohilis, Fabr. (nee Linn.), Syst. Ent. p. 697 (1775) ; Spee. Ins. ii, p. 338 

 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii, p. 280 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iv, p. 80 (1794) : Gmelin, ed. Syst. 

 Nat. i (4) p. 2128 (1788) ; Panzer in Voet, Col. iv, p. iii, t. 47, f. 1 (1798) ; Wolff, Ic. 

 Cim. ii, p. 49, t. 5, f. 46 a-d, (1801) : Stoll, Pnnaises, p. 8, t. 1, f. 1 5 p. 13, t. 2, f. 7, 

 and p. 20, t. 4, f. 22, 23 (1788). 

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