126 LONGICORN BEETLES FROM TROPICAL WESTERN AFRICA. 
brownish luteous-fulvous; mesosternal process small and conical 
(fig. 2 6, 2 c), and but slightly prominent. 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) EREMITA, Chevrolat’s MSS. 
(Plate 78, fig. 3.) 
L. luteo-albida punctata, supra capite et thorace nigro-maculatis, hoc striga media longitudinali 
nigra ante medium constricta, elytris albido et nigro variis, plaga magna irregulariter 
triangulari pallida basali relicta. 
Long. corp. lin. 10. 
Habitat in Senegallia. In Mus. D. Chevrolat. 
Upper side of the body pale luteous-buff, varied with black. 
The head has a patch in the middle of the hind margin, and two 
small spots on each side; the face has four minute oblique black 
spots; antennze short, 11-jointed, black, each joint, after the second, 
having a broad gray ring at the base: the pronotum has a rather 
broad black stripe down the centre, and several irregular-shaped 
smaller black lateral spots, the sides being produced in the middle 
into an acute black point; the elytra have a large pale irregular 
triangular-shaped patch at the base, with two minute black dots at 
the sides of the scutellum, and two at a little distance below it ; the 
remainder of the elytra are black and punctured, with numerous 
pale markings of irregular shape, and with pale irrorations upon 
the black parts; legs pale, with black rings; beneath buff-stone 
coloured, with a pinkish tinge; the middle of the body black and 
shining, a minute black spot on each side of the prosternum, and 
also near the outer hind angle of the mesosternum, and a spot on 
each side of the abdominal segments united with the black middle 
patch in the terminal segment. Mesosternal process broadly 
quadrate, and not porrected (fig. 3 a, 33). 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS?) BICOLOR, Westw. 
(Plate 78, fig. 4.) 
L. obscure fusca tomentosa, elytris pallide virescenti-sulphureis. 
Long. corp. lin. 123. 
Habitat. Gold Coast, Guinea. In Mus. D. Carter. 
Nearly allied to L. angulator Olivier, from which it differs in the 
form of the mesosternal process. Entirely covered with a dull 
brown silky pubescence, except the elytra, which are of a pale 
yellowish-green, with an opaline gloss. Eyes and mandibles black ; 
antennz 12-joited; prothorax with the sides armed with a small 
pointed tubercle ; mandibles simple, mesosternal process small, 
conical, channelled, and rather porrected (fig. 4 a, 4 0). 
The plant represented in the plate is Pontederia natans, Pal. 
d. B., a native of tropical Western Africa. 
