THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. XII. 



OCTOBER, MDCCCXLI. 



Price 6d. 



Art. XLI. — Analytical Notice of the * Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society of London^ vol. xviii, ^5L 4. Auyust, 1841. 



Art. XLI. — Descriptions of some nondescript Insects from Assam, chiefly 

 collected by William Griffith, Esq , F.L.S., Assistant Surgeon in the 

 Madras Medical Service, and attached to the late scientific mission to 

 Assam. By The Rev. Frederick William Hope, M.A., F.R.S. & L.S. 



(Continued from p. 167). 



14. Lamia Swainsoni. Brown: the head has an hnpressed line 

 between the eyes; the four basal joints of the antennae are ferrugi- 

 nous, the remainder black : the pro thorax is armed with a spine on 

 each side ; it is clothed beneath with white hairs : the elytra are pa- 

 rallel, their apices truncate and each angle spined, they have black 

 tubercles near the base and whitish markings on various parts of the 

 disk. Length 1 inch 4 lines, breadth 6 lines. In Mr. Hope's cabi- 

 net. (Id. 597, tab. xl. fig. 6). 



15. Monochamus heryllinus. Blue, the antenna? grey, the elytra 

 spotted with black, the prothorax has a black spine on each side. 

 The length is 8 lines, the breadth 3 lines. (Id. 597, tab. xl. fig. 7). 



16. Stibara telraspilota. The genus Stibara, now first proposed, is 

 allied to Saperda, the habit of the present species closely resembling 

 that of Sap. Carcharias ; it is described as orange-red, the antennae 

 and eyes being black ; the elytra also have a large humeral spot and 

 the apex black. Length 10 lines, breadth 3^ lines. (Id. 598, tab. xl. 

 fig. 8). 



17. Stibara trilineata. Pale chesnut, the antenna? ringed with 

 white : the prothorax toothed on each side : the elytra ornamented 

 with three black lines ; the under surface is covered with a yellow pi- 

 losity. Length 9 lines, breadth 3 lines. (Id. 599). 



Art. XLII. — The Difference in the Number of Eyes ivith tvhich Spiders 

 are provided proposed as the Basis of their Distribution into Tribes ; 

 with Descriptions of newly discovered Species, and the Characters of a 

 neiv Family and three new Genera of Spiders. By John Blackwall, 

 Esq., F.L.S. 



The author, after giving the views of Walckenaer relating to a pri- 



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