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Head blueish green, throat yellow, ocelli rufous, having a small 

 spot in front black, as is the space between the impressed lines 

 on crown of head. Beak and antennae black. Thorax in front 

 with a slight transverse groove, blueish green, with six black 

 spots, the posterior tln-ee largest ; there is also a small one on 

 the obtuse posterior angle. Legs blueish green, femora, except 

 at tips, coxae and trochanters orange. Wings black, hemelytra 

 shining. Scutellum golden green, with seven black spots, (2, 2, 2, 1 ,) 

 and a black dorsal line extending longitudinally from the base to 

 beyond the second pair of spots. Abdomen beneath blue, with a 

 large yellow space in middle, sides with two ranges of black 

 spots, the inner ones largest, penultimate segment beneath green, 

 with a large three-lobed mark at base. Two specimens of this 

 species, along with a large and fine collection of Sierra Leone 

 insects, were presented to the British Museum by the Rev. D. F. 

 Morgan, to whom this beautiful species is dedicated. 



Note on the genus PELTonioRA. 



In 1826, I believe, M. Guerin published, in the Entomological 

 part of the " Voyage de la Coquille" (Insectes, PI. XL fig. 7), a 

 figure of one of the Scutelleridce, remarkable for its antennae having 

 an elongated and slightly curved second joint, the third beingminute 

 and punctiform; he named it Scutiphora rubro-macidata. In 1828, 

 the Rev. Wm. Kirby, in the tliird volume of his joint- tvork with 

 Mr. Spence (p. 516), apparently alludes to this species, when he 

 refers to a Scutellera from New Holland, in which the second joint 

 of the antennae " is nearly as long as all the rest ol the joints 

 taken together;" from this circumstance he gives it the name of 

 Sc.pedlcellata. M. Laporte, in his " Essai," Src, published in the 

 volume of Guerin's Magasin de Zoologie for 1832, characterizes 

 Guerin's genus iS'cj/iip/iora (p. 71), adding, that one species only 

 is known, a native of New Guinea. Dr. Burmeister, in the second 

 volume of his Handbuch, published in 1835, perhaps not impro- 

 perly alters Scutiphora to Peltophora, and tells us, that the third 

 joint of the antennae is one-third or one-twelfth shorter than the 

 second. He describes two species from New Holland, existing in 

 the Berlin collection, the last described of which is also found in 

 New Guinea : the first he characterizes as having the third joint 

 of the antennae eleven times less than the second — this is the Pelt, 

 rubromaculata figured by Guerin, as mentioned above ; the second 

 species is described as having the third joint of the antennae three 

 times less than the second. This latter species of Burmeister, 



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