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Head cream-coloured and black. Antennae about half the length of the insect. Thorax flesh- 

 coloured ; a large black spot occupying the niidtUe, which is divided by a cream-coloured line. Scutellum 

 shaped like a bell, black, surrounded with cream colour, and divided transversely by a line of the 

 same colour. Hemelytra flesh-coloured, the extremities black. Beneath cream-coloured, with a great 

 many black spots. Rostrum black, extending below the fore legs. Legs cream, streaked with black. 



EDESSA VIRENS. 



Plato XLVI. fig. 2. 



Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Hcteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Scutati, Bunn. 

 Genus. Eoessa, Fabr. Centroproctus, Halm. Cimex, Drury. 



Edessa Virens. Obscure virescens, clytris fuscis margine cxterno pallido, pronuto lateribus utrintjue in spinam 

 longam reetam ct acutam productis. (Long. Corp. 10^ liu.) 



Syn. Cimex virens, Dniry, App. vol. 3. 



Edessa cervus? Fabr. Syst. Rh. 146. 2. 



Habitat : Brazil. 



Antennae small, about two-thirds the length of the insect. Head, thorax, and scutellum dirty green ; 

 the latter large and triangular. The thorax on each side ends in very acute angles. Hemelytra 

 brown, but were probably green when the insect was living. Beneath dirty green. Rostrum extending 

 beyond the hinder legs. 



LARGUS LINEOLA. 



Plate XLVI. fig. 3. 



Order; Hemiptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Lygajidae, £(y«7i. 



Genus. Lakgus, Hahn. Euryoptliahnus, Laporte. Cimex, Drury. 



Largus Lineola. Ferrugineo-niger, profimde punctatus, pronoto postice Iiiteo, membrana albidn-cinerea fusro 

 venosi limbo fuseo. (Long. Corp. 6 lin.) 



Syn. Cimex Lineola, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 721. No. 52. 

 Cimex punctatus, De Geer Mem. pi. Si.Jig. 17. 18. 

 Cimex humilis, Drury, App. vol. 3. Hahn. Wanzen. Art. Ins. t.'i.f.6. (Largus h.) Stoll. tab. 27. 



fig. 2G.5. 

 Euryopth. puncticollis, Laporte Heinipt. 38. 4. 

 LygBBUs Mutilis. Perty Del. Art. Braz. pi. 34./. 9. 



Habitat: Brazil. 



Head black. Antennae small and black, and about half the length of the insect. Thorax black in 

 front, orange behind ; with many minute black spots, the under part being edged with cream. Scutellum 

 triangular, small and black. Hemelytra black at the base : white at the extremities. Abdomen black, 

 edged with cream both above and beneath. Rostrum black, extending to the hinder legs, all of which 

 are black likewise. 



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