84 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME SPECIES OF 
dibles of the male are large, and each has a strong elevated tooth 
on the upper side near the base (fig. 1 a, head of the male; 1 4, 
head of the female); the pronotum is traversed by three slender 
fascize of the same colour as the scutellum, and a fascia next the 
base of the elytra is also of the same colour, as well as a number 
of spots which are so arranged as to form a successive series of 
much interruped angulated strigee, the points of the angles being 
directed backwards. All these marks are produced by a fine silky 
pubescence; the remainder of the disc of the elytra being black 
and punctured, the sutural edges, and two slender costz on each 
rather elevated, and the sides finely clothed with an eneous 
powder. On the under side the body is black, and varied with 
silvery green markings, which mostly form angulated fascize, the 
angles being directed towards the head. The pro- and meso- 
sternums are large, flat, prominent, and truncated in front, in 
both sexes (fig. 1 c, 1 d). The antennze of the male are longer 
than those of the female. 
Species I.—LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) PALINII, Hope MS. 
(Plate 69, fig. 2, and details.) 
I. supra omnino pulverosa nigro, glauco, viridi fulvoque varia, pronoti macula utrinque et 
margine postico, elytris striga obliqud ex humeris ad medium fere ducta fasciaque 
media, fulvis. 
Long. corp. lin. 12—15. 
Habitat apud Sierram Leonam. In mus. D. Hope, Dr. Savage. 
The face is prettily varied with pale green and orange, separated 
by black lines. The hind part of the head has a black triangular 
spot (extending on each side behind the eyes), and divided into 
two parts by a very slender pale line. The pronotum is opaque 
dull green, with two short black diverging lines extending from 
the front margin to the middle of the disc; the front margin 
on each side is orange-coloured, and near each of the lateral spines 
is a large transverse oval patch of the same colour, edged with a 
black line ; the hind margin is also fulvous; the elytra are dull 
opake green, with brighter silvery patches, especially beyond the 
middle; from each humeral angle nearly to the middle of the 
suture runs an oblique fulvous bar edged with black, and across 
the middle is a broad waved bar, also edged with black ; termi- 
nating next the suture is a reflexed pale green patch. The body 
