La punaise à sept taches, Stoll, pl. 14. fig. 97.
Habitat: Sierra Leone (Drury). Coast of Guinea (Stoll).
Head and eyes brown. Thorax dark yellow in front; the hinder part brown, the sides terminating in two obtuse spines. Scutellum yellow, brown in the middle. Hemelytra brown, with a yellow spot on the middle of the anterior edges. Legs yellow-brown, the fore ones having a remarkable spine on the thighs, placed near the tips. Rostrum strong, extending as far as the middle legs. Abdomen with two lateral dark indented lines extending to the anus.
I have been compelled to propose another specific name for this insect, that given to it by our author being quite inexpressive.
CERBUS? FLAVEOLUS.
Plate [XLIII]. fig. 3.
Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Coreidæ, Leach.
Genus. Cerbus? Hahn. Cimex, Drury.
Cerbus? Flaveolus. Fuscus, pronoti marginibus fasciâque angulatâ elytrorum fulvis; abdomine rufo, nigro marginato. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.)
Syn. Cimex flaveolus, Drury, App. vol. 3.