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ceases in a few minutes, without leaving any inflammation behind. The different manners 

 of this large and sagacious tribe of insects are, according to my friend's account, exceedingly 

 various and amusing, but much too long for this occasion ; neither would it be proper for 

 me to enter farther into an account of them, as that gentleman purposes to treat minutely 

 on their various histories in his Voyages and Travels : a book which, he informs me, is 

 in some forwardness, and will doubtless afford great entertainment and information to the 

 curious part of mankind." 



RAPHIGASTER VALIDUS. 



Plate XXXVIII. fig. 4. 



Order: Hemiptera. Soborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa, Latr. Family: Scutati, Buvm. 



Pentatomidae, Leach. 

 Genus. Raphigaster, Laporte. 

 RAPHIGASTER Validus. Pallidus, capite, pustulis duabiis pronoti et dentibus lateralibus obtusis, scutello (iipice 



excepto) elytrisque chalybeis, abdominis lateribus nigro maculatis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc.) 



Syn. Cimex variegatus, Drury, App. ml. 2. 



Cimex validus, Dnirij. App. vol. 2. (pi. i5.,fig. 6. endem). Klug. Burm. vol. -2. p. 365. 

 Edessa Tarandus, Fabr. Eiit. Syst. 4. 93. Syst. Rhyng. 147. 



Habitat: Jamaica. 



Head dark mazarine blue, and small. Eyes and antennae black. Thorax cream-coloured, with two 

 large blue spots upon it ; each of its sides being armed with a strong blue spine. Scutellum triangular, 

 and dark blue, the extremity cream-coloured. Abdomen red, with black streaks crossing its margin. 

 Hemelytra blue half way, the other half opake and brown. Wings membranaceous and brown. Ros- 

 trum black. Under side of the insect red (except the extremities of the legs, which are black), having 

 four triangular black spots running down the middle, and some others placed on the sides. 



This fine insect was noticed in the synoptical appendix to the second volume, under the 

 name of Cimex variegatus, the same name having been also inadvertently applied to the 

 insect figured in Vol. I. PI. 45. Another figure of the same insect, but with the wings 

 closed, is given in the third volume, PI. 45. Fig. 6. in the synoptical appendix of which 

 volume it is noticed, mider the name of Cimex validus. It is therefore probable that our 

 author was not aware of the specific identity of the two figures. To avoid the inconvenience 

 arising from having two species bearing the same name, Cimex variegatus, I have adopted 

 the name proposed in the third volume. 



TETTIGONIA SANGUINEA. 



Plate XXXVIII. fig. 5. Natural Size.— 6. Magnified. 



Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Homoptera. Family: Cercopidaj, iwcA. 

 Genus. Tettigonia, Latr. Germ, (nee Fabr.) Cicada, Linn- Drury. 



Tettigonia S.4.NGUINEA. Capite thoraceque lutco-fuscis, elytris sanguineis apice stramineis, alls fuscentibus. 

 (Expans. Alar. 9 lin. ) 



Syn. Cicada sanguinea, Drury, App. vol. 2. 

 Habitat: Jamaica. 

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