
HEMIPTE RA. 
CICADA LIMBATA. var. 
WHITE-WAX INSECT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Roftrum bent under the breaft. Antennz fetaceous. "Wings four, membranaccous, declining along the 
fides of the body. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wing cafes deflexed, green, margin red. Interior cafe fpotted with black.—Var. whitith, margined with 
black: a row of black {pots on the pofterior edge. 
Crcapa Limpata: elytris deflexis viridibus, margine rubro, interiori bafi nigro punctato. 
Fab. Spe. Inf. 2. p. 322. 3. 
Crcapa Limpata var. Aliam fimillimam vidi, at totam ex albidam futura bafi nigro pun¢tata margineque 
elytrorum poftico nigro. Fab, Spe. Inf. ibid. 


This fingular infeét, and the plant on which it is reprefented, have an equal claim to attention, both as 
objeéts of natural curiofity, and importance in domeftic economy. The Larva is an elegant and beautiful 
creature, and China is indebted to its labours for the fine white wax fo much efteemed in the Eaft Indies. 
The plant is not lefs interefting, as it produces the vegetable tallow, in general ufe throughout the Chinefe 
empire. 
The novelty of thefe produétions could not fail attracting the notice of thofe learned Europeans who 
were firft permitted to refide in China, and whofe obje& was to promote {ciences and arts, as well as the 
chriftian knowledge. Both the Wax-infect, and Tallow-tree, are fpoken of in their writings, as extraor- 
dinary and peculiar advantages to the country. Du Halde, efpecially in his fplendid work L’Hisroire Dg 
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