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SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT. 
founded with Pentatoma, till Lamark effected their 
separation. The peculiarity which has occasioned 
this separation, is necessarily accompanied with some 
others which render them very distinct. As the 
scutellum is placed over the wings, it must be suffi- 
ciently elevated not to prevent their movements, and 
this gives the body a much more convex and rounded 
appearance than among the other tribes, sometimes, 
indeed, it seems quite gibbous. They invariably 
live on plants, extracting the juices from the more 
tender parts, where they are able to introduce their 
sucker. No example of the genus occurs in Britain, 
and, indeed, very few inhabit any part of Europe. 
lineata, however, — a small species of a deep red 
colour marked with longitudinal block streaks — is 
plentiful on umbelliferous plants in the south of 
France, and along the northern shores of the Medi- 
terranean. The greater proportion of those described 
in entomological works are from Java, China, East 
Indies, Cape of Good Hope, and Surinam. Most of 
these are very splendidly coloured insects, decorated 
with the deepest tints, and having a fine metallic 
gloss of golden-green, copper, or silver. The indi- 
vidual figured belongs to Serville’s second subdivision, 
that in which there is no abdominal plate ; the thorax 
with a lateral spine ; the body long, and narrowing 
gradually to the hinder extremity. The colour is 
deep orange yellow, with several black spots, sur- 
rounded with light yellow, scattered over the surface 
but the colour and markings are very variable, 
is a native of China and Japan. 
