RHIPICERA DRUR^I. 



Plate XLVIII. fig. 7. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Serricornes. Family: Cebrionidoe. 



Genus. Rhipiceha, Latr. Kirby. Hispa, Fabr. Drury. Ptilinus, Fabr. Polytomiis, Dalman. Ptiocerus, 

 H off ma iisegg. 



Rhipicera Dhuk^i. Thorace griseo serieeo; elytris brunneis albo-punctatis scutellotiue albido, pedibus supra 

 fuscis subtus griseis. (Long. Corp. 7J lin.) 



Syn. Hispa mystacina, Fabr. Syst.Ent. p. 70. 1.? Syst.Eleuth. l.p.328. 1.? (Ptilinus m.) Herbst. Col. v. 



p. 45. t. 46./. 13.? Laporte in Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, 1834. p. 235.? (Rliipicera m.) 

 Habitat: " Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (Drury's MSS.). 



Head small, black, thin, and margined from the part where the antennae are placed ; but behind 

 them to the thorax growing suddenly thick and round. Antennae strongly pectinated, each ramification 

 increasing from the base towards the middle, and then gradually decreasing in length ; they are about 

 a third part of the insect's length, and entirely black. Thorax grey, rounded, having a ridge on each 

 side, and seeming covered with a fine pile or down. Scutellum grey and round, appearing like a whiteish 

 spot. Elytra dark red-brown, covered with a multitude of small whiteish spots, furrowed and margined 

 at the sides and suture. Breast and abdomen grey, each ring of the latter having some black spots on 

 it. Legs brown above, grey beneath. 



I have attached a mark of doubt to all the synonyms quoted above, 1st. on account of 

 the difference of locality between Drury's Insect, and that described by Fabricius, which 

 is from New Holland. 2ndly. Because Drury's description does not agree with the true 

 Rh. mystacina: and 3dly. because as there is another spotted species of the genus found 

 in North America, described by Laporte, it is most probable that Drury's insect is 

 altogether distinct, in which case I have proposed for it the name of Rhipicera Drura?i. 

 Mr. Kirby speaks of the New Holland species of this genus as though there were more 

 than one, and he has described one ft-om that countrv under the name of R. femorata, in 

 the 12th volume of the Linn. Trans. No. 9. in which the thorax, as well as the elytra, is 

 spotted with white, whereas the thorax of Mystacina is described by Fabricius as being 

 " cinereus." The Rh. mystacina of Laporte entirely agrees with Mr. Kirby "s Rh. femo- 

 rata. The Rh. femorata of Dalman is a totally distinct species from Brazil, and as it is 

 necessary that a new specific name should be given to it, I would suggest that it should 

 be termed Rh. Dalmanni. 



SAPERDA SPECTABILIS. 



Plate XLVIII. fig. 8. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Loiigicornes. Family : Lamiidae. 

 Genus. Saperda, Fabr. CeTa.mhyx -p., Drury. (Subgenus: '!) 



Saperda Spectabilis. Nigra, thorace flavo punctis tribus nigris, elytris fasciis duabus ilavis, apicc truncato et 



spinoso. (Long. Corp. 9 lin.) 

 Syn. Ceramby.^; spectabilis, Dra/'j/, App. cot. '2. Sch. Syn. 7ns. 3. 421. (Saperda s.) 

 Habitat: Bay of Honduras. 



