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274 blue: scutellum the same colour as the thorax, having two blue-black spots anteriorly: tegmina orange red from the base to beyond the middle, with a blue spot in the centre; the extremity olive, with a brassy tint; abdomen orange red, the sides yellowish white with blue marks; underside yellowish white; legs blue. Found in China. Of the other families belonging to the Heteropterous section, space can only be afforded, in this place, for the following examples:—

COREUS (SYRTOMASTES) PARADOXUS, XX. Fig. 1. Cimex paradoxus, Fabr. &c.

genus Coreus is distinguished by having the body oval, the last joint of the antennæ (which consist of four articulations,) ovoid or fusiform, commonly shorter than the preceding. The subgenus Syrtomastes has the last joint of the antennæ a good deal shorter than the preceding one, and nearly oval, while the latter is filiform and simple. Of this group S. marginatus is the best known species; S. paradoxus is very similar to it, being of a grey colour, tinted in certain places with reddish brown; the sides are fringed with ciliated membranous lobes, which give the insect a very singular appearance. It was first found by Sparmann at the Cape of Good Hope.

CERBUS FLAVEOLUS. XX. Fig. 2. Cimex flaveolus, Drury iii. pl. 43, fig. 3. is another member of the family Coreidæ which,