RUTELA LINEOLA. 



Plate XLIV. iig. 3. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: RatelidBe. 



Genus. Rctela, Latreille. Scarabaeus p. Drury. Cetonia p. Fabr. 



RuTELA LiNEOLA. Nigra, linea a capite ad scutoUum diictu, lateribusriue flavis, elytronim plagi magii;\ flavida. 

 (Long. Coqi. 7^ lin.) 



Syn. Scarabseus Lineola var. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. }\.p. 652. .33. Fabr. Syst. El. H. p. 145. 53. (Cetonia L. ) 

 Syst. Ent.p. 4G. 17. OUv. Ent. l.G.p. 78. 98. t.ll.f. IOC. var. 13. 

 Cetonia Ephippium, Fabr. Maiitlns. l.p. '29. 31. 

 Scarabieus Hespera, Vritry, App. vol. 2. 



Habitat : Brazil. 



Antennae brown. Head black, with a deep yellow stripe down the middle, which is continued 

 across the thorax ; that part being black, tlie sides yellow, whereon is a black spot in the middle. 

 Scutellum yellow and triangular. Elytra black, with a large yellow patch in the middle of each. 

 Podex yellow, the middle being black. Abdomen ringed with black and yellow above ; black beneath, 

 with two yellow spots on it. Sternum yellow, extending to the posterior coxee, which are brown. 

 Posterior femora broad, yellow and brown ; the other legs brown. 



The specimen here figured appears to differ from the ordinary character of the species 

 in having the thorax more stronglv marked with dark vellow. 



MACRASPIS FUCATA. 



Plate XLIV. fig. 4. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Lamellicornes. Family : Rutelidse. 



Genus. Macra.spis, 3Iac Leay. Cetoma p., Fabrlcius. Scarabteus p., jD;-«)-)/. 



Macraspis Fucata. Atra nitida, thoracis niargine omni elytrorumque vittis duabus flavis. (Long. Corp. lOJ lin.) 



Syn. Cetonia fucata, Fabr. Syst. El. 11. jo. 151. 82. Ent. Syst. 1.11. jo. 145. G9. Sch.Syn. Itis.vol. 3. p. 158. 

 Cetonia quadri-vittata, Oliv. Ent- l.G.p. 73. 92. t. 7./. Go. 

 Scarabseus Cinctus, Drury, App. vol. 2. Herbst. Col. 111. p. 249. 38. t. 31./. 5. (Cetonia c.) 



Habit.\t : Rio Janeiro. 



Head black and circular. Thorax black, margined with yellow. Scutellum very large, black, and 

 triangular. Elytra black, the sides brown, between which colours is a narrow yellow line, which, running 

 round the extremities, returns back pretty broad up to the anterior edge. Podex and abdomen 

 brown. Sternum long and black. Legs black. Tibiae with two long spurs at the tips, the fore-legs 

 having only one. Ungues having a long slender spine fixed to the joint, of ecjual length with the hook 

 itself. 



ECTRICHODIA BARBICORNIS. 



Plate XLV. fig. 1. 



Order: Heiniptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Reduviida', icac/i. 



Genus. Ectrichodia, Laporte. Ectrichotes, Burmeister. Loricerus, Halm. 



Ectrichodia Barbicornis. Nigra; tborace, abdominis lateribus pedibusque rufis, seutcUo nigro nitido. (Long. 



Corp. 1 unc. \\ lin.) 

 Syn. Reduvius barbicornis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 4. 194. 4. Syst. KA. 207. 4. Drury, App. vol. 3. (Cimex b.) 

 Habitat : Sierra Leone. 



