150 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME AFRICAN SPECIES 
green markings of a golden hue, destitute of the black or slate- 
coloured edges. The feet are also of a more golden fulvous colour. 
Both are females. The latter of these specimens was presented 
to me by J. A. Turner, Esq., of Manchester. 
The Fabrician L. bifasciata, described from the British Museum 
cabinet, is identical with L. imperialis. The locality of Jamaica 
must therefore be considered as erroneous. 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) MIRABILIS. 
(Plate 86, fig. 5.) 
I, thorace spinoso, nigra, elytris antice fasciis duabus, postice punctis, (8 vel 9 in singulo) 
viridibus, elytris basi mucronatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 9—11. 
Habitat the Gold Coast, Afr. tropic occident. 
Syn. Cerambyx mirabilis, Drury Tl, vol. 2, pl. 31, fig. 1. and Append. vol. 2. 
Cerambyx pulcher, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 1, pt. 2, p. 269. Syst. Eleuth. 2 p. 285. Schon- 
herr, Syn. Ins. 1, part 3, p. 372. Olivier Entomol. Ceramb. pl. 22, fig. 167. 
Sternodonta prasina, Hope MSS. 
This handsome species is varied with black and sericeous green 
or golden green colours, the latter forming very distinct marks. 
The face is green, marked on each side with an oblique black line 
from the base of the antenne to the base of the mandibles; there 
is also a black line extending from the under side of the eyes to 
the sides of the mouth; and also a narrow green fascia across 
the crown of the head. The thorax is marked with three green 
transverse fascize, the middle one being the broadest and curved, 
there being an additional slender abbreviated green fascia within 
the open space formed by this curve ; there are also two green spots 
behind the lateral teeth of the prothorax. The elytra are marked 
at the base with a transverse green fascia, behind which is a rather 
broader and more oblique one, slightly interrupted near the lateral 
margins, and followed by about nine equi-distant and nearly equal 
sized green patches, of which the two anterior and lateral, and the 
two apical ones are sometimes more or less confluent ; the hinder 
ones being more or less irregular. The male (represented in the 
plate) differs from the female, in having a much broader head, 
large dentated mandibles, and longer antennee, the tips of the joints 
being more nodose. 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) PULCHRA. 
L. nigra thorace transverse fulvo trifasciato ; elytris fulvo maculatis et variegatis maculis 
interdum viridi cinctis. 
Syn. Cerambyx pulcher, Drury Ill. vol. 1, pl. 32, f. 6, App. C., vol. 2; nec Lamia 
pulchra, Fabr. 
Lamia blanda, Schonh. Syn. Ins. 1, iii., p. 373. 
