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TAB. XLV. 

 STYLOPS Meliltee. 



Class 5. Insecta. Order 2. Hemiptera. 



Gen. Char, ^ntemicr hip^Ytite. jEt/c? sitting on a 



foot-stalk. Elytra fixed to the sides of the thorax. 



Scutelhim extended, covering the abdomen. 

 Spec. Char. Very black. Wings larger than the 



body. 

 Syn. Kirhy Monogr. Almm Angl. r. 1. /. 14. tz. 11. 



/. 1—9. V. 2. 110—14. 



Length of the body, l-i- line. 



DODr very black, not shining. The head before obsolelely 

 three-lobed. Feelersfour,theexteriorconsistlngof two joints, 

 the first subclavate, the second lanceolate, acute; the in- 

 terior shorter, not jointed, slender, towards the end a little 

 thicker. Antennae longer than the head, with the first 

 joint large, short, sending out two branches; the interior 

 shorter, wider, without joints ; the exterior longer, more 

 slender, consisting of three joints. Eyes large, prominent, 

 conspicuously reticulated, sitting on a short thick peduncle. 

 Vertex flattish. Elytra small, sublinear, fixed to the sides 

 of the thorax. Wings two, large, longer than the body, 

 folding, milky white, with a blackish rib and submarginal 

 line. Scutellum extended, elongate, slipper-shaped, cover- 

 ing the abdomen, strengthened on each side by a corneous 

 process. Legs compressed, piceous. Abdomen hid under 

 the scutellum, fleshy, with a truncate subemarginate anus. 

 The body of the larva is subcylindrical, soft, whitish, 

 inserted into the abdomen of the Melitta, the head being 



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