PLATE LXIX. 



England in a collection of insects reputed to have been formed by a 

 gentleman in India, and are presumed upon this authority to be 

 natives of that country. The male insect and one female were con- 

 signed to the cabinet of Alexander Mc. Leay, Esq. the other speci- 

 men is in our possession. The male is smaller than the female, and is 

 as usual in that sex destitute of the ensiform tube or projection so con- 

 spicuous at the extremity of the female, this being the organ through 

 which the eggs are conveyed from the ovary of the female parent, 

 and deposited by her in the earth. In every other respect the 

 appearance of the male is not very different from that of the female. 



The accuracy of the annexed figure may render any minute 

 detail unnecessary ; the antennae, it will be observed, are of very 

 unusual length, and sestaceous, and the eyes small ; the head and 

 thorax testaceous, tinged with greenish ; the wing-cases rufous 

 brown, reticulated with black incurvate spots. Upon each of the 

 wing-cases are three large spots or blotches, of a somewhat quad- 

 rangular figure and of a delicate green colour, which form a striking 

 contrast with the other prevaihng colours of the insect. There is 

 also a band or belt of the testaceous hue that encircles the abdomen 

 about the middle, which may probably have been of a green colour 

 in the living state. The posterior wings are hyaline, tinged with 

 brown, and are reticulated and spotted with darker fuscous. 



With respect to the appellation under which the insect now 

 appears, we have only to observe that some very respectable 

 naturalists to whom a description of this rarity was lately communi- 

 cated have suggested its propriety, and as we are not entirely disin- 

 clined to believe our entomological labours undeserving of the 

 intended compliment, we apprehend respectfully there can be no 

 objection to the adoptioi? 



