List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British museum.

  • British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
Date:
1851-1852
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Credit: List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Above livid testaceous, thickly and rather strongly punctured, with the head and the margins of the thorax and scutellum red. Head impunctate, faintly wrinkled; vertex and basal portion of the central lobe black. Eyes dark brown; ocelli red. Thorax with a transverse punctured impression on the anterior margin; the red portion behind this is slightly elevated and impunctate; lateral angles rounded. Scutellum truncated at apex, slightly raised at base, with a deep pit near each basal angle, and a di- stinctly elevated longitudinal line down the centre. Abdomen beneath red, with the margins and anal apparatus darker and tin2:ed with violet, the whole surface clothed with verv short hairs. Breast pitchy, with the antero-lateral margins red. Legs red, with the knees, the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi pitchy. Rostrum reaching the apex of the third ventral segment, red, with the tip black; labrum black. Antennae black, with the two basal joints and the base of the third bright red. a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming’s Collection. Genus 8. Scutellera. Cimex, p., Fah. E. S. iv. (1794). Scutellera, LamJc. Syst. 293 (1801). Tetyra, p.. Fab. S. R. (1803). Scutellera,\).,Lamk.Hist. Nat. hi. (1816); Burnt. Handb.ii. (1835). ' Callipha;‘a, Germ.Zeits. i. 122(1839); Am.^ Serv.Hem. 30(1843). 1. Scutellera nobilis. Cimex nobilis. Fab. E. S. iv. 80. 3 (1/94) (nec Linn.); Panz. Voet Col. iv. 111. 11. t. 47. fig. 1 (1798); Wolff, Ic. Cim. 49. t. 5. fig. 46 (1801). Tetyra nobilis. Fab. S. R. 129. 6 (1803). Scutellera nobilis, Lam. Hist. Nat. hi. 491. 1 (1816); Biurm. Handb. ii. 395. 1 (1835). Tectocoris nobilis, Hahn, Wanz. hi. 24. t. 81. fig. 247 (1835). Tectocoris perplexa, Hope, Cat. 4 & 15 (1837). Calliphara nobilis, Germ. Zeits. 124. 2 (1839); Am. Sf Serv. Hem. 30. 1 (1843). Stoll, Cim. 8. pi. 1. fig. 1, 20. pi. 4. fig. 22 & 23, & 13. pi. 2. fig. 7. a. Bengal. b. Bengal. Presented by General Hardwicke. c. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell’s Collection. d. Bombay. Presented by W. Elliott, Esq. e. Pondicherry. Presented by M. Reiche. f. Moulmein. From Archdeacon Clerk’s Collection. y. East Indies. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. h. India.
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