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TAB. XLV. 
STYLOPS Meliltse. 
Class 5. Insecta. Order 2. Hemiptera. 
Gen. Char. Antennce bipartite. Eyes sitting on a 
foot-stalk. Elytra fixed to the sides of the thorax. 
Scutellum extended, covering the abdomen. 
Spec. Char. Very black. Wings larger than the 
body. 
Syn. Kirby Monogr. Abum Ansi. v. 1 . t . 14. n. 11 . 
/. 1—9. v. 2. 1 10—14. 
Length of the body, ] -J line. 
Body very black, not shining. The head before obsoletely 
three-lobed. Feelers four, the exterior consisting of two joints, 
the first subclavate, the second lanceolate, acute ; the in- 
terior shorter, not jointed, slender, towards the end a little 
thicker. Antenna? 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 flatfish. 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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