HEMIPTERA. 257 



colour on the outer margin near the base ; membrane brownish 

 black with a brassy tinge, not margined with white as in all the 

 species of Strachia. Body beneath orange, smooth, shining. Ab- 

 domen impunctate, with the lateral margins banded with violet- 

 black and red ; a large transverse black spot in the middle of the 

 base of the last segment, and two short transverse black lines at the 

 base of the penultimate. Breast orange, spotted with blue-black 

 on the sides, and with a large black patch on the centre. Legs, 

 rostrum and antennae black. 



The specimen of the male is of a very dark variety ; the orange 

 markings of the upper surface are more or less obsolete, and the 

 breast is entirely blue-black. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



Genus 22. STRACHIA. 



Cimex, p., Linn. Syst. Nat.-, Scop. Ent. Cam. (1766); DeG. 



Mem. iii. (1773) ; Fab. Ent. Syst. iv. (1794) % Syst. R. (1803) ; 



Fall. Mon. dm. (1807) $ Hem. Suec. (1826) ; Zett. Faun. Ins. 



Lapp. (1828) fy Ins. Lapp. (1840); Burm. Handb. ii. (1835); 



Ramb. Faun. And. ii. (1841?). 

 Strachia, Hahn, Wanz. i. 180 (1831). 

 Eurydema, Lap. Hem. (1832) ; H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 37 (1835); 



Sahib. Geoc. Fenn. 23 (1848) ; Kolen. Mel. Ent. iv. 21 (1846). 

 Eurydema, Strachia et Ocedosoma, Am. Sf Serv. Hem. (1843). 



* Second joint of the antenna longer than the third ; lateral lobes 

 of the head meeting in front of the central. (EURYDEMA, 

 Am. 4* Serv.) 



1. STRACHIA ornata. 



Cimex ornatus, Linn. F. S. 251. 937 (1761) Sf S. N. i. 723. 56 

 (1767); Scop. Ent. Cam. 123. 361 (1766) ; Fab. E. S.iv. 117. 

 144 (1794) S. R. 172.93(1803); Panz. F. G.33.21; Wolff, 

 Ic. dm. 15. t. 2. fig. 15 (1800); Fall. Mon. dm. 49. 15 (1807) 

 8f Hem. Suec. 30. 15 (1826) ; Burm. Handb. ii. 368. 12 (1835) ; 

 Ramb. F. And. ii. 118. 1 (1841?). 



Cimex festivus, Linn. S. N. ii. 723. 57 (1767); Fab. E. S. iv. 

 118. 151 (1794) Sf S. R. 173. 95 (1803) ; Panz. F. G. 6. 19 ; 

 Wolff, Ic. dm. 61. t. 6. fig. 58 (1801). 



Cimex dominulus, Scop. Ent. Cam. 124. 362 (1766). 



Strachia festiva, Hahn, Wanz. i. 181. t. 29. fig. 93 (1831). 



Pentatoma ornata, L. Duf. Rech. 30. 6 (1833). 



Eurydema ornatum, H. Sch. Norn. Ent. i. 55 & 91 (1835). 



Eurydema herbaceum, H. Sch. Cont. Panz. F. G. 115. 12, fy Nom. 

 Ent. i. 55 & 91 (1835). 





