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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Oblong: black. Thorax spined, and marked with four longitudinal ferruginous lines. Wing cases black, with a ferruginous cross.
LYGAEUS CRUCIGER: thorace acute spinoso oblongus supra niger, thorace lineis elytris cruce ferrugineis. Fab. Ent. Syst. 4. p. 140. 22.
From the collection of Mr. Francillon, who received it from China. Fabricius describes it in his new genus Lygaeus as a native of Brazil.