It will prove a very easy species to cultivate, and a very free flowerer, in which it seems to follow the 
example of O. luridum ; but it will, we fear, long continue a scarce plant, as it grows very slowly, and 
seems indisposed to make more than one shoot in a year, or than one shoot at a time. The species was 
found by Mr. Sxrnner in the neighbourhood of the city of Guatemala, where it flowers in January ; 
and in the same month of the present year, the specimen was produced which is represented in our plate, 
and which, we may here observe, is very much inferior in the number of its flowers to the wild specimens 
which were attached to the plant on its arrival: beautiful, therefore, as the species now is, it may be 
expected to prove far more so, after it has become better established and more reconciled to its artificial 
state. 
The insect, which graces the foot of our page, is of lean and hungry aspect, and, most assuredly, as 
Wordsworth says, 
“ Strange contrast doth afford” 
to the one which we had the honour of presenting to our readers after the letter-press of Tab. II. There 
we had a portly, well-conditioned insect, happy, to all appearance, in the resources of his well-stored 
stomach; here we have an ascetic half-starved wretch, who might not have caten an Orchis for a month :— 
yet they are positively one and the same creature. The fact is, that, like some beings of a higher order, 
our hero has literally two faces. Look at him as he lies before you, and you pity his cadaverous 
countenance and admire his self-denial ; turn him over, and you have the very ‘ edwdAov” of plumpness 
and sensuality ; on one side all is “roses,” while all is “ thorns” on the other : reverse him once more, 
and he who but a moment since “looked every inch an alderman,” is now the picture of an insect 
anchorite. This seeming contradiction is thus explained ; the head is protected by a membranous shield, 
on which, as on a mask, a set of features are very distinctly traced ; and these, on the first view, might 
almost be mistaken for the real physiognomy ; this they, of course, are not ; yet, judging from the behaviour 
of their owner during his voyage, they afford a much surer guide to his real disposition than would be 
gathered from the examination of his countenance properly so called. 
HORACE. 
