C I M E X D I S P A R .
O C E L L A T E D B U G .
G E N E R I C C H A R A C T E K .
Beak bent downwards. Antennse longer than the thorax. Wings folded acrofs each other: the upper ones
coriaceous from the bafe to the middle. Back flat. Thorax margined. Feet formed for running.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R
AND
S Y N O N Y M S .
Efcutcheon extends over the wings and abdomen. Thorax and efcutcheon deep orange with fpots of
yellow, and a fmall black point in the middle of each.
C im e x D i s p a r : fcuteilaris carneus thorace fcutelloque maculis flavefcentibus: quibufdam punfto
ocellari atro. Fab. Spec. Inf. 4. p . 81. 7 .
C im e x O c e l l a t u s . Thunb. Nov. Spe. tab. jig . 7 2 .
De Ongelyke Schildwantz. La punaife difpar. Stoll. Cimic. tab. 37. Jig. 200.
This curious infeft is among the number o f thofe lately brought from China. A figure o f the upper
furface is reprefented on a leaf o f the Camellia Sefanqua, one of the vignette plates o f Sir G. Staunton’s
Hiftory of the late Embalfy to that country; a coloured figure and a ihort account o f it may therefore
prove acceptable to the readers of his volumes.
Profeffor Thunherg of Upfal difcovered this Infeft in his travels in Japan, and defcribed it among his
ne%u fpecies under the name Cimex Ocellatus. Stoll, in a work recently publlilied on Cimices, has alfo given
a figure of it: he has likewife reprefented another fort, which he confiders as the female (letierA)-, it has
no black points in the yellow fpots o f the thorax and fcutellum: he mentions the Ifle of Formofa as thc
native country of his fpecimens.
Fabricius has rejefted the fpecific name Ocellatus, which was given by Tliunberg, and has called it
Difpar: he has added a very minute account of its charafteriftic marks, &c.
W c have reprefented the infeft in a flying pofition, to difplay the fingular wings, th a t are concealed
under the fcutellum when it is a t reft. The other figure, diftinguiflied alfo by a ftar, exhibits the under
fide of the infeft, which for variety and beauty of colours is not lefs interefting than the upper furface.