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PLATE LXXVIII. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME SPECIES OF LONGICORN BEETLES FROM 
TROPICAL WESTERN AFRICA. 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) COMES, Westw. 
(Plate 78, fig. 1.) 
L. nigra nitida, elytris punctatis, maculis numerosis rotundatis, magnitudine diversis, albidis et 
fulvis, apicibusque fulvis nigro-striatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 15. In Mus. Dupont, Parisiis. 
Brack, pronotum strongly angulated in the middle of each side, 
from which runs a curved raised space ; elytra much punctured ; 
the humeral angles acute, and porrected ; the dise of each with two 
longitudinal raised lines; near the suture are two round pale buff 
spots, edged with greenish, followed by two large round fulvous 
ones, rather before the middle, attached to the anterior edge of 
each is a slender pale line, and a small lateral dot; near the 
middle of each elytron are three smaller roundish spots of pale 
buff, arranged in a triangle, the outer one being the smallest ; 
extremity fulvous, divided by the elevated black lines above 
mentioned : mesosternal process broadly truncate, but not very 
prominent (fig. 1 a, 1 0.). 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS ?) PRINCEPS, Dupont’s MSS. 
(Plate 78, fig. 2.) 
L. luteo-fulva, elytris glauco-albidis; basi, lateribus (versus apicem dilatatis), et fascia lata 
media (in medio interrupta), brunneis, antennis longis, sterno parvo conico. 
Long. corp. lin. 16. 
Habitat in Guinea. In Mus. Dupont. 
Head and thorax clothed with very short brownish luteo-fulvou 
pile, having a greenish tinge at the sides of the latter; the eyes 
margined with whitish. Antenne long, 11-jointed; the terminal 
joint very long and slender; they are setose beneath for about one- 
third of their length, and are dark gray, with a brown tinge, the 
joints being black at the tips. Mandibles simple (fig. 2 a); the sides 
of the prothorax are armed with a small spine ; the elytra have a 
broad brown base, with the posterior edge irregular ; the sides of 
the elytra are also brown, which colour extends into a large patch 
on each side, running more than half across the middle of the 
elytra; near the extremity, also, it is dilated into a broader patch 
of this colour; the remaining space is of a pale dull greenish 
colour, separated from the brown by a whitish line, following the 
irregularities of the latter; legs gray-brown ; body beneath entirely 
