•396 Prof. Westwood's notes on 



the collection of the late Mr. J. Aspmell Turner, of 

 Manchester) were both males, with the posterior tibife 

 not armed with spines, but with a fascicle of hairs on 

 the inside near the tip. The species inhabits Ashantee. 

 It is of a dark green colour, the upper surface of the 

 body oimque, and tinged with fulvous at the base of the 

 elytra, which colour varying to luteous in one of the 

 specimens and extending over the entire elytra, has a 

 broad dark green stripe extending from the shoulder to 

 the subapical tubercle ; whereas the under surface of the 

 body is glossy. The length of the insects were 10 lines. 



A female of this insect was subsequently obtained by 

 the late Captam Parry, of which I published a figure 

 and description in the ' Transactions ' of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London (n. s., vol. iii., 1854, p. 63, pi vi., 

 fig. 4). It differs from the male in having the upper 

 surface of the body of a rich dark green colour and 

 shinimi, the front half of the head black and the hinder 

 part green, with the anterior and lateral margins elevated, 

 the former emarginate in the middle, and with a central 

 longitudinal carina slightly elevated, the epimera scarcely 

 visible from above, the elytra finely punctured, the 

 punctures wide apart ; the shoulders and subapical 

 tubercles black ; the body beneath is dark green and 

 polished, slightly and finely punctured, except the sides 

 of the metasternum and coxob, which are closely punc- 

 tured ; the legs are dark green, the fore tibiae strongly 

 3-spined, the spines black ; the four posterior tibiae are 

 black, slightly glossed with green, with the tarsi black. 



I subsequently obtained, for the Hopeian Collection, 

 another female with the head and pronotum very glossy 

 and rich green-coloured, the clj'peus dark orange-red, 

 and the anterior i3art of the lateral margins of the pro- 

 notum orange ; the elytra orange, with a small black 

 spot on the shoulder-tubercle, and another on the sub- 

 apical tubercle ; the scutellum and narrow suture dark 

 green ; the legs black, slightly glossed with green. 



In 1880 Dr. Kraatz published the description and 

 figure of a female insect from Ashantee (which I cannot 

 distinguish from that of Asthenorkina Turneri), to which 

 he has assigned the name of Platynocnemis marginicollis 

 ('Deutsche Entom. Zeitschr.,' 24 ann. 1880, p. 148, 

 pi. i., fig. 1), with the observation: — "Da mir von 

 AstJicnorrhina nur <? vorliegen, von Platynocnemis nur 



