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of his work : u It came," he tells us, " from Cayenne, with several 

 others " described in the work, " and were collected by M. Mallouet, 

 who sent them to Europe, but in their passage were taken by the 

 Shaftesbury privateer, and afterwards sold by public auction, where 

 I purchased them and he further adds, <c it is an undoubted 

 non-descript." 44 Seba, in his fourth volume, plate 77, %. 7, 8, 

 figures one somewhat like this, but perfectly distinct." — Vide p. 76, 

 vol. 3, Drury's " Exotic Insects." 



With respect to the native place of this remarkable species, we 

 are convinced that the information upon which Mr. Drury speaks is 

 perfectly correct ; it is a native of South America, not of India ; and 

 this opinion is confirmed by the circumstance of the two specimens 

 before mentioned in our own possession having been taken in Brazil. 

 Mr. Drury is obviously mistaken, however, in conceiving his insect t<? 

 be different from that of Seba's, and consequently in describing it 

 as a new species. When he called it Fulgora armata, in allusion, to 

 the spinous processes with which the snout is armed, he was not 

 aware that Linnaeus had previously distinguished it by the name of 

 Fulgora diadema. 



We should not omit to mention, the appearance of distortion as 

 well in the display, or as the practical entomologist would term it, 

 the " setting " of the insect, originally in the possession of Mr. Drury 8 

 as in the form of the wings, and elytra, or wing-cases. In Mr. Drury 

 specimen, the extremity or tips appear somewhat elongated, owing, as 

 we apprehend, , to some accidental contraction of their breadth in 

 drying; in the specimens we possess, those parts terminate obtusely, or 

 as if truncated, agreeing in this respect with the unique species des* 



