182 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Khynchota. [No. 2, 



the eyes within the anterior margin which is amplified between the eyes 

 and the sternum : anterior margin of the basal angles of the scutellnm 

 subreflexed ; ventral segments unarmed in the apical angles ; near the 

 sides, anteriorly and posteriorly, somewhat convex or tumescent. 



97. Lampeocoeis lateealts, Guerin. 



Scutellera lateralis, Guerin, Voy. La Coqtdlle, Zool. ii (2) p. 159, 160 (1830)^ 

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



(1867) : Vollenhoven, Faune Ent. I'Arch. Indo-Neerl. p. 32, t. 2, f. 11 (1863). 



L. (Lamprocoris) lateralis, Stal, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. x, p. 155 (1866); En. Hem 



iii, p. 22 (1873). 



Head rounded at the tip, triangular, punctured, with two longitudi- 

 nal grooves in the middle ; green, shining, the sides and the space be- 

 tween the grooves of a rich Prussian blue : antennae black : pronotum 

 and scutellnm bluish-green, the former very tumid and very broad be- 

 hind, punctured, lateral posterior angles rather prominulous ; above and 

 anteriorly, with two oblong black spots, placed transversely and trend- 

 ing a little obliquely, towards the tip of a median and longitudinal line 

 of which the extremity reaches their level and whioh ends at the pos- 

 terior margin ; on each side of this line are three long oblique spots 

 which do not reach the posterior margin : scutellum punctured, with 

 three transverse rows of black marks, of which five are on the anterior 

 margin in the form of a crescent, four towards the middle, of which the 

 two median are much the largest, three behind these, almost united by a 

 weak brown mark, two more behind these last and often a very small 

 transverse spot at the posterior extremity : body beneath is of the same 

 colour as above : abdomen with a broad red band, commencing close to 

 the base and ending near the anus, it occupies half the first segment, the 

 2-4 and half the fifth segment, and has four black-brown stigmatic dots 

 on the margin : feet concolorous : hemelytra brown ; wings transparent, 

 tip alone infuscate (Guerin). Long, 9 — 10; broad, 6 — 6| mill. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra, Assam. The Indian Museum 

 l)0ssesses a specimen from Sikkim. 



98. Lampeocoeis eoylii, Westwood. 



Callidea Roylii, Westwood, Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 16 (1837) : Germar, Zeitschr. 

 i (i) p. 119 (1839) : Dallas, List. Hem. i, p. 28 (1851) j Walker Cat. Het. i, p. 28 

 (1867). 



Var. Scutellera pulchella, Westwood, Royle, 111. Bot. Him. p. liv, t. 10, f. 6 

 (1839). 



Lamprocoris roylii, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 22 (1873) : Distant, A. M. N. U. (5 s.) 

 iii, p. 41.(1879). 



