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Fam. Acanthidce. 
Acanthia, Fabr. 
A. lectularia, tinn—The common Bed Bug, found everywhere, 
excepting where cleanliness prevails. 
Fam. Saldidce. 
Saida, Fabr. 
*S. sp. ?— A black, plant Bug, taken from native vegetation on the 
high land. 
Fam. Fulgoridce. 
Cixius, Latr. 
*C. Sanctse helenee, Stal. — A brown Bug or Beetle-like creature, 
capable of considerable hopping power, found in gardens on the high 
land. 
Issus, Fabr. 
I. coleoptratus, Fabr. 
Fam. ApMdidce. 
Aphis, Linn. 
* A sp P— Taken from the branches and leaves of the native Bed- 
wood trees growing on the high land, and described as Allows by 
Mr. Walker “ Wingless, brown, very convex, a little lon & e 
than broad; antenme, nectaries, and legs pale; antenme muc 
shorter than the body; nectaries very short; legs rather short. 
Winged, green , head, antenna,, disk of thorax, nectanes, tars, and 
tips of femora and of tibia, black. Sice of A. rumm, and very like it 
“ S Many* other species of aphides exist in the Island which have 
not yet been collected. 
Fam. Cocci da;. 
Coccus, Linn. 
C. cacti, Linn.— Notwithstanding several introductions of the 
Cochineal insect, and there being an abundance of the prickly -pear 
