1887.] E. T. Atkinson— iVo ^66' on Indian Rhynchota. 165 



at least the middle of the second ventral segment : the ventral segments 

 (at least the last and the penultimate) furnished at the apical angles 

 with a small tooth or spine which is sometimes covered by the hemely- 

 tra and then with difficulty distinguished : the scutellum does not 

 cover the exterior margin of the connexivum (8tdl). 



79. Calliphara obscura, Westwood. 



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

 Calliphara ohscura, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 18 (1873). 



Head and pronotum black-coerulean ; the latter with three posterior 

 spots ; scutellum green, with seven spots (two, two subconfluent, two 

 rounded beyond the middle, and one small, subapical) ; body beneath, 

 black-coerulean, venter green, with black lateral spots ; femora luteous 

 at the base. Body, long 17| millims. 



Reported from Nepal. Stal inquires * an potius Insulae Philippinae.' 



80. Calliphara nobilis, Linnaeus. 



Cimex nobilis, Linn., Cent. Ins. i, p. 17 (1763) ; Amaen. Ac. vi, p. 400 (1763). 



Cimex jpustulatus, Panzer in Voet, Coll. iv, p. Ill, t. 47, f. 11 (1798). ' 



Scutellera Buquetii, Guerin, Voy. Coq. Ins. ii (2), p. 159, 162 (1830). 



Callidea nobilis, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 25 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 32 

 (1867). 



Calliphara buquetii, Stal, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. x, p. 153 (1866) ; Ofvers. K 

 V.-A, Forh. p. 618 (1870). 



Calliphara nobilis, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 17 (1873). 



Above light green, shining, in some specimens with violet reflections : 

 head rather small, triangular ; eyes brown very prominent ; in the mid- 

 dle, a small smooth green elevation, a little dilated hindward and bound- 

 ed by two small grooves : antennae in d , nearly half the length of the 

 head, in ? a little shorter, black, with the joints flattened : thorax al- 

 most straight or only a little emarginate on the sides, punctured ; on 

 each side in front an impression, black at the bottom, placed obliquely, 

 and four small round black spots, a little beyond the middle ; in some 

 specimens there is an oblong red spot between tha two anterior im- 

 pressions, in others there are only two spots on the sides : scutellum 

 slightly grooved at the base, much punctured, with a longitudinal line 

 in the middle having no punctures and feebly marked ; three small, 

 round, black spots on each side, and a smaller in the middle and near the 

 tip : thorax beneath, red, with large green spots, confluent on the 

 sides ; margin red, partly visible above : abdomen vermillion, sides 

 broadly bordered green and on their external margin are four large 

 black dots, and inwards four black patches less well defined, the extreme 

 external margin is red : rostrum black, led at the base : femora red, 



