H E M IPT E R A. 
C I M E X R E G A L I S. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Scutellate, thorax and fcutel golden, with two fpots on the thorax, and two blueifli fpots on the fcutel. 
CiMEX Regalis: fcutellaris thorace fcutelloque aureis, thorace pundtis duobus, fcutello maculis 
duabus coerulefcentibns. Fab. Erit. Syji. T. 4. p. 80. Sp. 5 . — UNFIGURED. 
The metallic fplendor of this lovely infedf, and its analogous fpecies Imperialis, is aftonifhingly fine. 
Regalis is efpeclally, if poflible, more pre-eminently beautiful in this refpedl than the other; fo much 
indeed on this occafion, more than on the former, we may truly regret the feeble powers of the pencil, 
which afford us no fuch a decided tone of colouring as is likely to imprefs the mind with a true conception 
of the original. It is as refplendent as a mafs of polifhcd gold, and is, befides, very richly gloffed with 
a variety of prifmatic hues. 
Both the fpecies, Imperialis and Regalis, as above obferved, were difcovered by Sir Jofeph Banks in 
New Holland, and are defcribed by Fabricius from the fpecimens in the Bankfian cabinet. At this period 
we are acquainted with only two other infedts of this fpecies in the Entomological cabinets of this coun- 
try ; one of which, formerly in the colledfion of the late Mr. Drury, is now in our own poffeffion, and 
the other in the cabinet of Mr. Francillon. 
CIMEX P A G A N U S. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Scutellate, blue; fcutel and abdomen rufous with blue fpots. 
CiMEX Paganus : fcutellaris cyaneus fcutello abdominifque rufis cyaneo maculatis. 
Fab. Ent. SyJl. T. 4. p. 84. Sp. 17. — UNI IGUBED. 
Defcribed by Fabricius from the Bankfian cabinet : we alfo poffefs a fpecimen of this beautiful and 
very uncommon Cimex. It is from Botany Bay, and does not appear to have been hithei to difcovered 
in any other part of the vaft ifland of New Holland. 
