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but that fo rarely that we are led to confider it as a fcarce infe6l, or 

 at leaft as a very local one. 



The only writer who has defcribed this Cimex, to our knowledge, 

 is Fabricius, who faw an Italian fpecimen of it in the cabinet of 

 Dr. Allioni, and introduced it to the notice of the Entomologift in his 

 Entomologia Syjlematica, under the title of Coreus Venator. No 

 figure has hitherto appeared of this infect ; nor has it been before 

 mentioned as a native of any other part of Europe than Italy. 



Both the upper and lower furface of Cimex Venator is fliewn in 

 their natural fize, and an enlarged figure of the former in the center 

 of the plate . 



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