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CIMEX STOCKERUS. 
BLUE BUG OF STOCKER. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Beak bent downwards. Antenne longer than the thorax. Wings folded acrofs each other: the upper ones 
coriaceous from the bafe to the middle. Back flat. Thorax margined. Feet formed for running. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Oval: green with black fpots: body ferrugineous. 
Cimex STockeERrvs: ovatus corpore viridi: maculis nigris, abdomine ferrugineo. Lin. Sy/?. Nat. 2. 715. 2. 
Fab, Ent. Sy. T.4.. 79. 212. 1. 
La Punaise Bueu peStocxer. Stoll. Cimic. fig. 15. p. 2. 
Petiv. Gazoph. 34. tab. 21. fig. 12. 

This beautiful infeé is not peculiar to China; it is found on the coafts of Bengal and Coromandel, and 
in the Ifle of Java. It feems a very common creature in thofe parts of the world; for we rarely receive a 
parcel of the infeéts of thofe countries, and from China in particular, that does not include many of them. 
There are feveral varieties of this {pecies; fome incline very much to green, and vary in the form of their 
fpots, &c. We have a charming miniature variety of it from Africa equin. about one third of the fize of 
the Chinefe {pecimens, and of a very deep blue colour. The m 
arks both on the upper and under fide pre- 
cifely refemble thofe in the annexed figures. 
