1887.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhjmchota. 183 



Rufous cupreous or golden, varied with black : pronotum with the 

 dorsal line, three spots on each side and the humeral angle, black : 

 scutellum with three basal and five apical spots, also a broad lunated 

 band in the middle, black, margined green : body beneath greenish ; 

 abdomen with black band and on the margins rufous spots (0. Boyluj 

 Westw.). Body long, 9 J mill. 



Brassy or coerulean-black, shining : disc of pronotum anteriorly and 

 posterior margin tinted cupreous or brassy : scutellum, intensely green 

 and gold, a transverse basal band and another median oblique (inter- 

 rupted in the middle), and three rounded spots (posteriorly and ar- 

 ranged in form of a triangle), ccerulean black : scutellum covering 

 the abdomen : two basal joints of antennae short, equal, third almost 

 twice as long as the second, last longest of all. Long, 10| ; broad, 6|- 

 mill. (S. pulchella, Westw.) 



Reported frcm the Himalaya, Bengal, Nepal, Assam. The Indian 

 Museum has specimens from Sikkim and Mussoorie. 



99. Lamprocoeis obtusus, Westwood. 



Callidea oUusa, Westw., Hope, Cat. Hem. i, p. 16 (1837) ; Germar, Zeitsohr. i 

 (i), p. 119 (1839) : Vol!., Faune Ent. TArch. Ind. Neerl. i, p. 32 (1863) : Walker, 

 Cat. Het. iii, p. 510 (1868). 



L. (Lamprocoris) ohtusus, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 22 (1873). 



Golden-green : two anterior spots on the thorax, a dorsal line and 

 four other oblique, black : eleven black spots on the scutellum : body 

 beneath and the feet, black with a golden tinge ; margin of abdomen, 

 fulvous, stigmata black (Westw.). Long, 9| mill. 



Reported from Java. 



100. Lamprocoris spiniger, Dallas. 



Callidea spinigera, Dallas, Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 186, t. 19, f. 1 (1849). 

 Sophela spinigera, Walker, Cat. Het. i, p. 18 (1867). 



Lamprocoris (Sophela) spinigera, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 22 (1873) : Distant, A. M. 

 ■N. H. (5 s.) iii, p. 44 (1879). 



Broadly ovate, rather convex ; above brownish testaceous, with 

 violet or brassy reflections, very thickly and finely punctured : head 

 violet, shining, faintly punctured and transversely wrinkled, the tylus 

 darker in colour ; eyes brown, ocelli red : pronotum faintly punctured 

 with the lateral angles produced into a small acute spine on each side, 

 the anterior and lateral margins and in the c5' the whole anterior por- 

 tion, cupreous or violet, shining : on each side, towards the anterior 

 margin, is a small transverse fovea, surrounded by a brassy green ring: 

 scutellum very finely punctured and faintly wrinkled transversely, 



