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PLATE CCCCXXXI. 



CIMEX MELANOCEPHALUS. 



HEMIPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Snout inflected : antennae longer than the thorax : wings four, 

 folded crofs-wife, anterior part of the upper pair coriaceous : back 

 flat : thorax margined : legs formed for running. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Grey : head, and fcutel at the bafe braffy black. 



Cimex Melanocephalus: grifeus capite fcutelloque bail nigro 

 aeneis. Fabr. Ent, Syji. T. 4. p. 125. n. 176. 



Fabricius appears to be the only writer who has noticed this ele- 

 gant little fpecies of Cimex : he defcribes it as an Engliih Infeft, 

 without referring to any cabinet. 



This infe6l is of a fmall iize, as fhewn by the central figure in the 

 annexed plate. The upper furface is of a greyilh colour, tinged in 

 the {hades with green ; the head, two confluent fpots at the anterior 

 part of the thorax, and triangular fpot at the bafe of the fcutel, braffy 



O 2 black, 



