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Plate xcviil
CIMEX LURIDUS,
Shells or upper wings, femi-crustaceous, not divided by a straightfuture, but incumbent on each other. Back curved downwards.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae longer than the thorax; Thorax margined^ in each footthree joints.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Thorax spined, brown, tinged with green; Shells brown, with %dark spot on the center of each.
Cimex Luridus. Thorace obtuse spinoso subvirescente, elytrisgriseisj macula fufea, clypeo emarginato.
Syjl. Ent. yoi. 25.
Fab. Spec. Ins^ 2. 34.5. 38,
Fahrkius is the only writer who has described this beautiful Infect 3the description in the Species Infectorum is taken from a specimen inthe collection of Sir J. Banks , Bart. A very minute Latin accountis also^ given in a Mantissa of Entomology lately published by thesame author, but in which he does not even mention the larva orpupa state, though their characters differ so essentially from the perfectInsect ; we suspect in the two first states the Insect has hitherto re-
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