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



Var. c. : — c?. Pale yellowish., shining above: head with a median 

 longitudinal line and its posterior part, shining black : lateral margins 

 of the pronotum slightly sinuate in the middle, a patch of shiningblack 

 rounded hindwards, touching the anterior margin : two oblong, black, 

 transverse patches on the disc of the scatellum, its base having on 

 each side a similar black spot : body beneath shining black-bluish with 

 transverse lateral bands of a pale shining yellow which unite on the 

 two penultimate ventral segments : anal plate pale shining yellow, feet 

 black metallic-bluish: antennae black (E. jpallens, Am. & Serv.). 

 Long, 25 mill. 



All these varieties occur in India and are represented in the Indian 

 museum collection. Reported from Japan, China, Siam, Assam, 

 (Silhat), Bengal, Tenasserim, Java. 



82. Chrysocoris iris, Germar. 



Calliphara iris, Germar, Zeitschr, i (i), p. 128 (1839) : Herr. Schaff., Wanz. Ins. 

 V, p. 80, t. 171, f. 526 (1839). Bintam. 



Callidea sexmaculata, Dallas (nee Leach), List Hem. i, p. 23 (1851); Vollen., 

 Faune Ent. I'Arch. Indo-Neerl., p. 18, t. 1, f. 7 (1863) : Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 31 

 (1867). Java. 



Chrysocoris (EucoryssesJ iris, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 19 (1873). 



Purpurascent, shining violaceous : antennaB and feet black, three 

 spots on thorax also its posterior margin, and six spots on scutellum, 

 black (Germar). Schaffer observes that in the example figured by him 

 the ground colour appears to be brown, lighter posteriorly ; head, 

 thorax and base of scutellum of a rich violet with rosy red, turning to 

 green on the sides of the thorax and scutellum : feet and antennae 

 darker. His figure shows anterior and posterior margins of thorax 

 black, a median longitudinal streak proceeding from the anterior margin 

 and posteriorly behind the middle confluent with a short transverse, 

 streak, black : four spots on scutellum joining an arcuate interrupted 

 transverse band before the middle, and two larger oblong transverse 

 spots behind the middle. Long, 24 mill. It is like G. sexmaculatuSf 

 Leach, but differs in its smaller size, body (especially the head) purpu- 

 rascent-flavescent, smooth head and shorter rostrum which somewhat 

 reaches the apex of the third ventral segment. 



Body above purple with silvery blue reflections : head transversely 

 wrinkled at the apex, vertex of a bronzed blackish green ; eyes brown, 

 ocelli brown-yellowish : beneath, the sheath of the rostrum of a metallic 

 green, labrum yellow : antennae black, second joint one-sixth of the 

 following : thorax punctured, most strongly in the middle of the ante- 

 rior margin which is of a bronzed green and on the disc, the space be- 

 tween these two is smooth ; a cordiform spot on the disc, an abbreviated 



