1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchotai 163 



Tectocoris nepalensis, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. 1. p. 14 (1837). 



Calliphara nepalensis, Germar, Zeitschr. i (i) p. 125 (1839). 



Galliphara amethystina, Germar, Zeitschr. i (i) p. 124 (1839). 



Scutellera amethystina, VoUenhoven, Fanne Ent. rArch. Indo-Neer. i, p. 12 

 (1863) : Walker, Cat. Het. iii, p. 507 (1868). 



Callidea lanius, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 231 (1854). 



Scutellera layiius, Stal, 1. c. p. 51 (1856) : Walker, 1. c. i, p. 15 (1867). 



Scutellera fasciata, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 19 (1851) ; Walker, 1. c. i, p. 15 

 (1867) ; Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 14 (1873). 



Body fusiform ; pilose on the head ; first third of pronotum, body 

 beneath and feet, purple : head wrinkled only on the margins, beneath 

 and two first joints of the antennae, violet : eyes brown, ocelli red : 

 rostrum, half red, rest black : pronotum deeply grooved and with a row 

 of excavations on the anterior margin, lateral margins greenish or 

 golden ; two spots at the anterior angles and four near the base brown 

 or blackish : scutellum with three bands, often interrupted (especially 

 the first), and two small lateral and one large median spot of the same 

 colour, all of them are sometimes more or less obsolete : body beneath 

 red, pectus with several violet spots, venter with two rows of oblique 

 spots, alternately violet and golden : stigmata black : cox83 and femora 

 red : tips of femora, tibiae and tarsi, deep violet. (S. ametlujstina^ 

 Voll.). Body long 18-20 mill. 



Westwood describes his T. nepalensis as caerulean-green, clypeus 

 golden, head with a median line and two oblique spots between the 

 eyes, black ; sides of thorax golden-yellow ; dorsum with three inter- 

 rupted longitudinal lateral lines ; scutellum with two round spots at the 

 base, a broad waved band before the middle, two round lateral spots 

 and two others much larger and confluent beyond the middle, and the 

 apex, black. Long 19 mill. Stal makes his 8. lanius from Java a 

 variety marked by its greater size, more robust, subsangaineous above, 

 slightly shining violaceous, spots unicolorous without the violaceous 

 tinge. Long, 22 ; broad 9 mill. 



Reported from Java, Borneo, Malacca, China, Burma, Assam, 

 Nepal, Sikkim. 



Genus Brachyaulax, Stal. 

 Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 616 (1870) ; En. Hem. iii, p. 9, 14 (1873). 



Body very oblong, above slightly, beneath very convex, briefly 

 pilose, shining : head triangular, somewhat convex, sides very convex 

 before the eyes, lateral margins sinuate towards the base, rounded to- 

 wards the apex ; bucculae continuing through it, slightly elevated : 

 ocelli twice more distant from each other than from the eyes : rostrum 

 extending to somewhat behind the last coxae : antennae shorter by half 



