EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate L 



Fig. I. Grapsus penicUliger, of the natural size, porte-pin- 

 ceau, p. 39. 



Fig. 2. Remipes testudinarius, Lat. The subgenus is men- 

 tioned p. 57, and this species in note 2 of the same. It is yel- 

 lowish and somewhat rugose, with five teeth in the anterior 

 margin. See Lat., Gener. Crust, et Insect., I, p. 45. 



Fig. 3. Pagurus laticauda^ half size; a species of the divi- 

 sion of the Pagurus latro of the genus Birgus, Leach, quoted 

 p. 58, much smaller and reddish; the two posterior feet very 

 distinct, and, as well as the two preceding ones, bifid at the ex- 

 tremity; intermediate antennae as long as the lateral ones, or 

 even longer; otherwise similar to the P. latro — From the East 

 Indies. 



Plate IL 



Fig. 1. Goliath barbicornis, the male, of a natural size; above, 

 a deep, dead, reddish-brown, tinged with bronze and dotted 

 with grey; beneath and the legs bronze-green; anterior extremity 

 of the head deeply cleft into two elevated, compressed and tri- 

 angular horns, furnished on the inner side with yellowish down. 

 From Brazil, and sent to the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, by 

 M. Alexander Mac-Leay, Secretary to the Linnaean Society. 

 For this genus, see p. 435. 



Fig. 2. Buprestis scutellafiis, B, of the natural size; bronze 

 above, and golden-green beneath; an impression with a cupre- 

 ous-red spot near each posterior angle of the thorax; elytra with 

 elevated lines resembling nervures, and five teeth on the exterior 

 margin. It is in this last mentioned character only that it dif- 

 fers from the B. scutellaris, Fab., which inhabits the Isle of 

 France, together with the preceding one. 



Fig. 3. Lucanus serricornis, the male of the natural size; 



