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CIMEX STOCKERUS. BLUE BUG OF STOCKER.
GENERIC CHARACTER. Beak bent downwards. Antennae longer than the thorax. Wings folded across each other: the upper ones coriaceous from the base to the middle. Back flat. Thorax margined. Feet formed for running.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Oval: green with black spots: body ferrugineous.
CIMEX STOCKERUS: ovatus corpore viridi: maculis nigris, abdomine ferrugineo.
- Lin. Syst. Nat. 2. 715. 2.
- Fab. Ent. Syst. T. 4.79.212.1.
LA PUNAISE BLEU DE STOCKER.
- Stoll. Cimic. fig. 15. p. 2.
- Petiv. Gazoph. 34. tab. 21, fig. 12.
This beautiful insect is not peculiar to China; it is found on the coasts of Bengal and Coromandel, and in the Isle of Java. It seems a very common creature in those parts of the world; for we rarely receive a parcel of the insects of those countries, and from China in particular, that does not include many of them. There are several varieties of this species; some incline very much to green, and vary in the form of their spots, &c. We have a charming miniature variety of it from Africa aequin. about one third of the size of the Chinese specimens, and of a very deep blue colour. The marks both on the upper and under side pre∣cisely resemble those in the annexed figures.