THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. VIII. 



JUNE, MDCCCXLI. 



Price 6d. 



Art. XXI. — Analytical Notice of the 1st Number of 'Arcana Ento- 

 mologica, or Illustrations of New, Rare, and Interesting Ex- 

 otic Insects.'' By J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., Sec. of the 

 Entomological Society, etc. etc. Puhlished May \st, 1841. 

 London: William Smith, 113, Fleet Street. 



I BEG to introduce to the notice of entomologists, a new entomolo- 

 gical periodical containing sixteen pages of letter-press, and embel- 

 lished with four coloured plates. 



The first plate represents four Asiatic cornuted species of Cetoniidaj, 

 and the accompanying paper gives a sketch of the previous labours of 

 entomologists on these liighly interesting insects. Figs. 1 and 2 of 

 this plate represent the Mycteristes Phaedimus Cumingii of Water- 

 house, whose previously unpublished description Mr. Westwood has 

 given at length : the colour is resplendent green, the elytra, legs, and 

 somewhat pubescent under surface being tinged with yellow; the head 

 is produced into an upright horn, broad at the apex and slightly notch- 

 ed, and having besides an obtuse tubercle in front ; the prothorax is 

 convex, rather narrowed behind, and produced anteriorly into a strong 

 lioni, which is bent over the head and notched at the extremity ; the 

 elytra are rather longer than wide, and somewhat narrowed posteriorly; 

 the legs are long and strong, the tibiae are furnished with a brush of 

 hair, but have no external denticulations, the claws are very large : 

 the length of the male is 12^ lines, the female is less and without the 

 horns. A male and female, brought by Mr. Cuming from the Philip- 

 pine Islands, are unique in the cabinet of the British Museum. ('Ar- 

 cana Entomologica,' i. 5. Tab. i. fig. 1 <?, 2 ?). 



Figure 3 represents the Goliathiis rliinophyllus of Wiedemann, an 

 insect of great rarity fovmd in the interior of Java. It is previously 

 figm'ed in Gory and Percheron's ' Monographic des Cetoines,' tab. 62 

 fig. 5. Mr. Westwood's drawing is from a specimen in the collection 

 of the Rev. F. W. Hope. (Id. i. 2, tab. i. fig. 3 <?). 



Figure 4 represents Dicranocephalus Wallichii of Hope, described 

 in Gray's ' Zoological Miscellany,' p. 24. This insect is also previ- 



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