1887.] E. T. Atkinson— A"o^e5 07i Indian Rhynchota. 181 



96. Chrysocoris dilaticollis, Guerin. 



Scutellera dilaticollis, Guerin, Yoy. La Coquille, Zool. ii, (2) p. 160, 164 (1830). 



Chrysocoris stollii, Hahn (nee WolfP), Wanz. Ins. ii, p. 39, t. 44, f. 136 (1834). 



Callidea ahdominalis, West wood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 15 (1837) ; Germar, 

 Zeitsclir. i (i) p. 112 (1839). 



Oalostha stocJcerus, Am. & Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. H^m. p. 34 (1843). 



Callidea dilaticollis, Dallas, List Hem. i, p. 28 (1851) ; Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 28 

 (1867) : Yollenhoven, Fanne Ent. I'Arch. Indo-Neer. p. 28 (1863). 



Callidea stocJcerus, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 389 (1855). 



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



Var. Callidea sumatrana, Vollenhoven, 1. c. p. 28, t. 2, f. 9 (1863). 



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



Above shining blue, more or less greenish : head broad, triangular ; 

 eyes prominulous ; median longitudinal line, black : antennae black, in 

 d at least as long as the body, in $ shorter, two last joints compara- 

 tively stout : thorax anteriorly as broad as the head, abruptly produced 

 posteriorly in a small, fine, rounded dilatation on each side ; no depres- 

 sion in front, broader than the scutellum and almost twice broader than 

 long, surface smooth or very weakly punctured ; with two rows of three 

 round, rather large black spots, and the lateral dilatation, also, black in 

 the middle : scutellum with seven round, black spots and a large trian- 

 gular spot towards the base, very broad in front, a little emarginate on 

 the sides and having in some specimens a small green line in the mid- 

 dle ; the posterior spot is placed in the middle and near the tip : thorax 

 beneath of a beautiful shining green, with small yellow lines, on the 

 sutures : rostrum green, with the base orange : abdomen bright orange 

 yellow, with a quadrate patch at the base and the anus black-blue ; 

 sides green with two rows of four black dots on each side : femora bright 

 orange yellow with their tips, the tibiae and tarsi blue-green (Guerin), 

 Long, 10 — 12 ; broad at the base of the scutellum, 5^ — 6 mill. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Timor, Malacca, Burma 

 India, China. The Indian Museum possesses specimens from Arakan in 

 which the abdomen beneath is almost entirely dark brassy-green, the 

 disc of the last three segments alone being orange yellow and in this 

 respect approaches Var. sumatrana, Voll. 



Genus Lamprocoris, Stal. 



Hem. Afrio. i, p. 34 (1864) ; Mayr, Keise Novara, Hem. p. 18 (1866) : Stal, En. 

 Hem. iii, p. 9, 22 (1873). Includes Sophela, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p= 17 (1867). 



Stal distributes the species belonging to this genns amongst the 

 subgenera Lamprocoris aud Sophela, both of which are represented in 

 India. Third joint of the antennae longer than the second ; tibise cylin- 

 drical neither flat nor furrowed above : prostethium impressed behind 



