1887.] E. T. Atkinson— ^01^65 on Indian Rhynchota. 179 



green, margin of abdomen, weakly violacescent (Stdl), Long, 19 ; 

 broad, 9 mill. 



Reported from Madi*as, Bengal, Bombay, Celebes, Borneo. The 

 Indian Museum has specimens from Chandbali (S. coast of Bengal). 



95. Chrysocoris eques, Fabricius. 



Callidea eques, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 28 (1851); Walker, Cat. Ilefc. i., p. 32 

 (1867). 



Chrysocoris eques, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i, p. 11, 12 (1868). 

 C. (Chrysocoris) eques, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 21 (1873). 

 Var. a. Cimex eques, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iv, p. 79 (1794). Tranquebar. 

 Tetyra eques, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 131 (1803) : Schiodte in Kroyer's Tidsskr. 

 iv. p. 284 (1842). 



Scutellera eques, Guerin, Voy. La Coquille, Zool. ii, p. 158 (1830). Philippines. 

 Callidea eques, Burm., Handb, ii (i) p. 394 (1835) ; Germar, Zeitschr. i (i) 

 p. 112 (1839) : VoU., Paune Ent. I'Arch. Indo-Neer. p. 27 (1863). 

 Galostha eques, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 33 (1843). 

 Var. b. Callidea schwaneri, Vollenhoven, Fanne I'Arch. Indo-Neer. p. 26, t. 2, 

 f. 7 (1863) ; Walker, 1. c. iii, p. 511 (1868). Borneo. 



Var. c. Var. nicoharensis, Atkinson, Proc. A. S. B. p. 13, 1887). Nicobars. 

 Callidea eques, Mayr, Reise Novara, p. 24 (1866). Nicobars. 

 Var. d. Callidea formosa, Westwood. Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 15 (1837) -, Germar, 

 Zeitschr. i (i) p. 113 (1839). China. 



Callidea dorsalis. White in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 80 (1842). 



Var. a. Body ovate, above green : a band on the head between the 

 antennae emitting a branch up to the base and two small spots, deep 

 black : dorsal line on thorax and four spots on each side (3; 1) deep 

 black : scutellum large with eight deep black spots (2, 2, 2, 1) and the 

 dorsal spot anteriorly bifid : abdomen black, margin green with black 

 points : feet ccerulean (G. eques, Fabr.). Long, 11 — 13 mill. 



Var. 6. Head flat, smooth, green, with the ocular margin blue : the 

 eyes and ocelli brown : antennae black, very pubescent, the second joint 

 only one-fifth the length of the following : pronotum a little punctured, 

 except perhaps on the anterior angles ; lateral margins much dilated, 

 green or blue, disc golden : scutellum very tumid without a basal eleva- 

 tion, much punctured, principally near the anterior angles, a little flat- 

 tened at the apex ; colour green or golden red with a more or less large 

 black spot at the extremity : deep violet beneath, middle of the venter 

 black also the tarsi, or venter green with a large discal streak and small 

 marginal spots, black. This variety has the following subvarieties : — 



1. Black spots on the lateral angles of the pronotum. 



2. In addition, a black spot on the anterior margin of the pro 

 no turn. 



