Plate XXXVIII. fig. 4.
ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa, _Latr._
FAMILY: Scutati, _Burm._ Pentatomidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. RAPHIGASTER, _Laporte_.
RAPHIGASTER VALIDUS. Pallidus, capite, pustulis duabus pronoti et
dentibus lateralibus obtusis, scutello (apice excepto) elytrisque
chalybeis, abdominis lateribus nigro maculatis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc.)
SYN. Cimex variegatus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
Cimex validus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 1. (_pl._ 45. _fig._ 6. _eadem_).
_Klug. Burm. vol._ 2. _p._ 365.
Edessa Tarandus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 4. 93. _Syst. Rhyng._ 147.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
Head dark mazarine blue, and small. Eyes and antennæ black. Thorax
cream-coloured, with two large blue spots upon it; each of its sides
being armed with a strong blue spine. Scutellum triangular, and dark
blue, the extremity cream-coloured. Abdomen red, with black streaks
crossing its margin. Hemelytra blue half way, the other half opake and
brown. Wings membranaceous and brown. Rostrum black. Under side of the
insect red (except the extremities of the legs, which are black), having
four triangular black spots running down the middle, and some others
placed on the sides.
This fine insect was noticed in the synoptical appendix to the second
volume, under the name of Cimex variegatus, the same name having been also
inadvertently applied to the insect figured in Vol. I. Pl. 45. Another
figure of the same insect, but with the wings closed, is given in the third
volume, Pl. 45. Fig. 6. in the synoptical appendix of which volume it is
noticed, under the name of Cimex validus. It is therefore probable that our
author was not aware of the specific identity of the two figures. To avoid
the inconvenience arising from having two species bearing the same name,
Cimex variegatus, I have adopted the name proposed in the third volume.