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Head black, long, and rough above. Antennae short, gradually increasing in size from the base. 

 Thorax black, and very rough; each side terminating in a thick spine or tubercle. Elytra black, 

 smooth, and round, and reaching so far down the sides of the abdomen as almost to meet underneath, 

 being rather longer than the head and thorax. Femora and tibiae partly black, and partly of a dirty 

 orange ; being covered in several parts with a kind of pile of the colour last mentioned. Scutellum 

 obsolete. Each of the ungues furnished with a spine. 



HIPPORHINUS VERRUCOSUS. 



Plate XXXII. fig. 5. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section; Rliyncophora. Family: CurcuBonidse. Subfamily: Entimides. 



Genus. Hipporhinus, 5(7iOHA. Bronchus, Germar. Curculio, i»m. ^-c. 



HiPPORHiNUS Verrucosus. Elongato-ovatus niger, Beneo-micans, rostro quasi aliscisso, quinque siilcato, 

 thorace eont'ertim tuberculato, elytris seriato-tuberculatis apice singulatim verruca craseil auctis. ( Long. 

 Corp. 1 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Curculio Verrucosus, Linn. Si/st. Nat. 12. p. 618. Ifo. 90. Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. 2. 634. No. ICl. Herbst. 

 Col. 6. 308. t. Si.fg. 6. Schoiih. Si/ii. Iiis. Curcul. 1. 481. 27. 



Habitat : Cape of Good Hope. 



General colour brassy black. Head long, and furnished with a thick rostrum, whereon are placed 

 the antennae. Tliorax rounded, and regularly covered with small pustules. Head and thorax 

 almost the length of the elytra, which are long, brassy, and covered with several rows of tubercles ; some 

 being small and round, others larger and oblong ; they extend very deeply down the sides of the abdo- 

 men, and at their extremities terminate in two swellings- Scutellum obsolete. Femora simple. Pos- 

 terior tibia; very crooked. 



LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) PULCHRA. 



Plate XXXII. fig. 6. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Longicornes. Family: Lamiidse. 



Genus. Lamia, Pair. §•<;. Cerainbyx p. itn?i. ^'O. Subgenus. Sternotomis, PprcAfroji. 



La-mia (Sternotomis) Pulchra. Nigra, thorace transverse fulvo trifasciato, clj'tris fulvo maculatis e( 

 variegatis, maeulis interdum viridi-cinctis. (Long. Corp. fere 1 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Cerambyx Puleher. Vrury, App. vol. 2. (nee C. pulcher Fabr. qui ad C. mirabilem Drurii pertinet.) 

 Lamia blanda, Schonh. Syn. Ins. 3. 373. 



Lamia ornata, Pal. Bauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Col. PI. 37./. 1. 

 Lamia regalis, Fabr.! Syst. Eleuth. 2. 286. 



Habitat: Jamaica. 



Head orange colour, encircled with black stripes. Antennae black, being a little longer than the 

 insect. Thorax orange-coloured, encircled with black rings; having a single spine on each side. 

 Elytra with orange-coloured clouds and spots on them, separated by black partitions, some being mar- 

 gined with green. Abdomen orange-coloured, the middle being of a dirty green. Femora simple, dark 

 green. Tibiae the same. 



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