Excerpt from Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, Vol. 8 Black, dull, very elongate-oval. Head lanceolate, thrice as long as the fore lobe of the prothorax; ante-ocular part twice as long as the post ocular. First joint of the antenna stout, shorter than the head, much longer than the second. Prothorax red, with rounded and not prominent angles. Fore lobe as long as the hind lobe, convex on each side of the longitudinal furrow. Legs red; femora and four posterior tibia-3 black above; fore tibiae with a black band. Length of the body 4% lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.