'3 78 E. T, Alkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 2, 



.verse streaks therefrom on anterior margin of each segment on both 

 Bides, apex of femora and tibiea externally, steel-blue ; anal segment 

 violet-black. Easily distinguished by its size and the broad, orange, 

 apical limbus of the scutellum. Long, 17 ; breadth of pronotum, 9 

 mill. 



The Indian Museum possesses a long series from the Andaman 

 Islands. 



94. Chrysocoris marginellus, Westwood. 



Callidea mar-ginella, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem, i, p. 15 (1837) : Germar, 

 Zeitschr. i (i) p. 117 (1839) ; Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 25 (1851); Walker, Cat. Het. 

 1, p. 26 (]867). 



Callidea ccdlestis, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. xii, p. 181 (1855) ; 1. c. xiii, p. 52 

 (1856) ; Walker, 1. c. iii, p. 510 (1868). 



C. (Chrysocoris) marginellus, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 12 (1868); En. Hem. iii, p. 

 21 (1873). 



Size of G. purpureus, Westw. : ccerulean- green, thorax with twelve 

 spots, two intermediate, oblong ; scutellum with nine, and an oblong 

 anterior median stripe, black : thorax beneath golden-green ; abdomen 

 palely luteous with golden-greenish submarginal spots, margin broadly 

 purple, stigmata black; femora rufous-fulvous, apex and tibiaa green 

 (Westw.}. Body long, 13-14 mill. 



d" . Obscurely virescent-chalybeous ; thorax with 11 black spots ; 

 scutellum densely and deeply punctured, with a basal transverse eleva- 

 tion, with 8 black spots of which the median longitudinal : pectus more 

 obscure, yellow at the coxae ; abdomen yellow, each segment having on 

 both sides a chalybeous- violaceous spot, last segment violaceous-black : 

 femora cinnabar, apex and the tibiae chalybeous : antennae and tarsi, 

 black. Head green chalybeous, subimpunctate, shining, tylus more ob- 

 scure : antennas black, second joint very minute : thorax sinuate ante- 

 riorly, sides oblique, broadly obliquely truncate on both sides posteriorly j 

 scarcely so anteriorly, posteriorly (especially on the sides) more punctured, 

 shining, chalybeous ; adorned with eleven spots of which 3 anteriorly, 

 2 basal close together subelongate and 3 on each side placed triangular- 

 ly, black: scutellum flatly-produced at the apex, densely and roughly 

 punctured especially on the sides, transversely elevated at the base and 

 there impunctate, green-chalybeous, adorned with seven rounded spots 

 (arranged 2, 2, 2, 1) and an elongate median spot sometimes dilated at 

 the base, black : pectus obscurely chalybeous- violaceous, yellow at the 

 coxae : abdomen roughly punctured on both sides, yellow, adorned with 

 a black basal spot and obscurely chalybeous, transverse, lateral spots, 

 last segment, violaceous-black : femora cinnabar, with apex and the 

 tibiae chalybeous : tarsi black. Colour sometimes somewhat golden 



