H E MIP T E 11 A. 
% 
” M 
CIMEX REGAL1S. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Scutellate, thorax and fcutel golden, with two fpots on the thorax, and two blueith fpots on the fcutel. 
Cimex Regalis: fcutellaris .thorace fcutelloque aureis, thorace pundis duobus, fcutello maculis 
duabus coerulefcentibus. Fah. Ent. Syji. T. 4, p. SO. Sp. 5. LJSFIGLRED. 
The metallic fplendor ot this lovely infect, and its analogous ipecies Imperia/is, in aftonifhingly fine. 
Regalis is efpecially, if poflible, more pre-eminently beautiful in this retpedt than the other; lo much 
indeed on this occafion, more than on the former, we may truly regret tne feeble poweis oi 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 relplendent as a mats of polifhcd gold, and is, befides, very richly gloffed with 
a variety of prifmatic hues. 
Roth 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 j one of which, formerly in the colledtion of the late Mr. Drury, is now in our own poffeffion, and 
the other in the cabinet of Mr. Francillon. 
CIMEX PAGANDS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Scutellate, blue j fcutel and abdomen rufous with blue fpots. 
Cimex Paganus: fcutellaris cyaneus fcutello abdominifque rufis cyaueo maculatis. 
Fal. Ent . Syji. T. 4. p. 84. Sp. \ 7 .—UNFIGURED. 
by o FabriCiU - fVom lhe Eankflan cabinet = we alfo a fpecimen of this beautiful aod 
- zr&zz sr does not appear to hare been hithei to “ 
