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CERATOPACHYS VARIABILIS, * 
DALLAS. 
Reference :—Dalias, Cat. Hemip. Ins. Brit. Mus., Pts,.1 & II, p. 502. 
Classification :—Order, HEMIPTERA. Family, Coreide. 
Description. 
The eggs of this insect when first laid are of a brilliant 
green colour which later on turns to reddish green. The 
imago varies in colouring. The following three varieties are 
described :— 
Var. a,¢. Head, thorax, and body beneath pale. green: 
Eyes and ocelli red. Thorax thickly and finely punctured with 
the posterior margin reddish. Coriaceous portion of the elytra 
thickly punctured, red, with the outer margin green, a narrow 
fulvous line on the apical margin, and a small yellow spot in 
the inner apical angle; membrane blackish brown. Margins 
of the abdomen pale green, with indistinct blackish bands at 
the posterior margins of some of the segments. Thighs green- 
ish, with the apex brown; tibize and tarsi brown. Rostrum 
greenish, with the tip black. Antennz black, with the second 
and third joints pale green at the base ; third joint much dilated 
at the apex. ‘ 
Var. 8, 2. Head, thorax, and body beneath orange. Head 
reddish in front. Thorax with the lateral margins and a broad 
band across the posterior margin red. Scutellum yellow, 
tinged with green. Coriaceous portion of the elytra thickly 
and finely punctured, greenish testaceous, with the basal por- 
tion of the outer margin yellow, and a broad red band running 
along the whole inner and apical margin ; inner apical angle 
with a yellow spot. Margins of the abdomen very indistinctly 
marked with red at the posterior margins of some of the seg- 
"1 The notes on the life history of this insect are from observations made 
by Munshi Fazl Din, Khan Bahadur, Extra-Assistant Conservator of 
Forests, in charge of the Montgomery Division, forwarded to me by Mr. C. F. 
Elliott, late Conservator of Forests, Punjab. 
