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entirely black, except the first, which is pale yellow above, but black underneath. The breast and legs 

 are black and hairy, the hairs on the fore legs being rather dark brown. The under parts of all the tarsi 

 are light brown. 



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TESSERATOMA PAPILLOSA. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 2. 



Order : Hemiptera. Suborder : Heteroptera. Section : Geocorisa. Family : Scutati, Burmeister. 

 ( Longilabres, Lutr.) 



Genus. Tesseratoma, St. Farg. ^ Serv. in Enc. Metli. Latr. Lap. Burni. 



Tesseratoma Papillosa. Lutea, thoracis lateribus subrotiindatis, autcnnis fuscis hasi subferrugineis, abtlomiac 

 supra purpureo-ferruginoso subtus luteo. (Long. Corp. 1 imc.) 



Syn. Cimex Papillosus, Vniry, App. vol. 2. (ncc Fahr. Biirmeist. Saint Fa?'g. ^- Serv. ^-c.) 



Tesseratoma Sonueratii. St. Farg. §• Sej-v. Enc. Mtth. 10. 590. Guh-in Icon. JR. An. Ins.pl. 55./. 4. 

 Cimex Chinensis, Thunb. Nov. Ins. 45. t. W.f. 59. Lapvrte Class. Heinipt. p. 00. 

 Cimex papillosus? Donovan Ins. India, pi. 13. fig. i. 



Habitat ; China (Drury). 



Head small, yellowish olive-coloured. Antennae black. Thorax yellow olive, lying high above the 

 level of the head, and projecting at the ligature of the wings. Scutellum triangular, terminating in 

 a point near the middle of the abdomen ; the basal part lying underneath the thorax. Hemelytra 

 crossing each other when at rest ; with the basal portion opake, and yellow olive-coloured ; the apical 

 membrane being almost transparent. Wings entirely membranaceous, and yellow brown. Abdomen 

 above, dark red, but underneath clay-coloured ; furnished with a sharp tooth at each of its segments. 

 Anus tenninating in two angular points, with a small spine on each side. Breast pale clay colour ; having 

 a black spot directly under the fore legs, and another on each side the middle ones. Legs brown yellow 

 colour. Proboscis brown. 



This very common Chinese insect has heen confounded by Fabricius, &c. with an African 

 species (Tesseratoma confusa Westw.) and by Saint Fargeau and Serville, with another 

 from Java (Tesseratoma Javana, Klug. Burm. '■2. 350. figured by StoU. t. 1. fig. '2.) As, 

 however, Drury's specific name, as applied to the Chinese species, has the priority in point 

 of date, I have here reverted to it, and would apply a new specific name to the species from 

 Sierra Leone. The Fabrician species belongs to a different section of the genus having the 

 terminal joint of the antennge elongated. The only specimens which I have seen of it are 

 those contained in the Banksian Collection in the possession of the Linneean Society of 

 London, \\o\ff figures the Chinese species. I have little doubt that Donovan's figure is 

 intended to represent the true papillosus, although it is given as an inhabitant of Litlia. 



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