Cimex nigripes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 4. 106. 101. Syst. Rh. 149. 17. (Edessa n.) Wolff. Cim. 1. 11. 11. t. 2. f. 11. Stoll. Cim. 2. 2. f. 10. Donovan Ins. India, pl. 14. fig. 1.
Habitat: China.
Head small, and dark blue. Antennæ broken. Thorax deep orange, verged in front with blue. Scutellum orange, with the fore part blue. Rather more than half the wing-cases, next the body, orange, with a large blue spot in the middle of each; the extremities are of a brassy olive, and striated. Abdomen orange, with a border on its sides of cream, and blue spots; the under side of it being cream colour, with four blue spots on each side. Legs dark blue. Rostrum small and short, unless it has been broken off.
ARILUS SERRATUS.
Plate [XXXVI]. fig. 6.
Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Reduviidæ, Leach.
Genus. Arilus, Hahn. Burm. Prionotus, Laporte. Reduvius, Fabr.
Arilus Serratus. Fuscus, elytris subferrugineis, rostro, antennis tibiisque fulvis, scutello cristato serrato. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Cimex serratus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 722. 62. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 4. 205. 42. Syst. Rh. 266. 2. (Reduvius s.) Stoll. Cim. 2. t. 1. f. 6.
Cimex carinatus, Drury, App. vol. 2.