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but browner. The forehead and mandibles are gold colour. 



The corslet, instead of being wrinkled, is punctured like 

 the elytra, and the puncturing is more decided than in the 

 preceding species. 



The corslet is very little narrower than the body, which 

 gives to this species a more cylindrical and elongated form. 



The antennae, are much shorter in the three specimens that 

 I have examined. 



The Lep. Beaumontii inhabits the same locality as the 

 Lep. Mezierei, but appears to be more rare. 



I have dedicated this species to the eminent individual to 

 whom I am indebted for it, — M. F. Bellier Beaumont, one of 

 our correspondents in the Isle of Bourbon. 



Leptocera bilineata, Gory. 



All the knowledge that I have of this species is from the 

 figure which M. F. Guerin has given of it, in the ' Iconogra- 

 phie du Regne Animal,' Jus., pi. 45., fig. 9. Two longitu- 

 dinal bands of a yellowish colour are observable through the 

 whole length of each of the elytra, and two others of the same 

 colour upon the corslet, which appear hairy and rounded; the 

 legs are yellowish ; the antenna brown and formed of eight 

 pieces. 



Leptocera graphica. Boisd. 'Faune Entomologique du 

 Voyage de l'Astrolabe,' 2nd part, 8vo., Paris, 1835, p. 511, pi. 

 9, fig. 17. The following is M. Boisduval's description. 



" Supra aenea, thorace nigricante, punctata, sub-cylindrica, lineis quat- 

 uor, albicantibus; elytris punctatis maculis tribus impressis suturaque pos- 

 tice albicantibus, antennis pedibusque nigris, femorum basi testacea. 



" The upper part of a bronze colour, corslet blackish, 

 punctured, almost cylindrical, with four whitish lines ; the 

 elytra punctured, with three deep spots, and the posterior part 

 of the suture whitish ; antenna and legs black, with the base 

 of the thighs testaceous. " 



This species is so near to the Lep. scripta, that if I had not 

 before me two specimens brought from New Holland, I should 

 have regarded it as a variety of rather smaller size. 



It is smaller than Lep. scripta of the Isle of France, but its 

 form is the same, and it very much resembles it. The head 

 and the corslet are blackish, the latter is almost cylindrical, 

 punctured, and marked on the upper part with four small 

 whitish lines. The elytra are bronzed, with a slight coppery 

 reflection, covered with small deep punctures : they have be- 

 sides, three small white spots upon each of them, almost in a 



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