PLATE CLV. 



A species of rather considerable magnitude, and of figure and 

 appearance sufficiently attractive to arrest attention. A specimen of 

 this curious species did once occur to our notice amongst a parcel of 

 insects collected in Africa, about four hundred miles towards the 

 interior from the coast of Sierra Leone, and with the sight of which 

 we were accidentally favoured. From this circumstance we feel a 

 confidence in speaking of it as a native of Africa; but with this 

 exception, the only positive identity of its existence as a species 

 within our knowledge, we must confess, depends exclusively upon 

 the authority of the late William Jones, Esq. of Manor Place, 

 Chelsea : it had been met with by that gentleman in some cabinet 

 about half a century ago, the fate of which is probably no longer 

 known. It was among the drawings of Mr. Jones only as it appears 

 from the writings of Fabricius that this distinguished entomologist 

 had ascertained it : his description is taken from those drawings, and 

 it is to this original source of information that we are indebted for the 

 figures that are now submitted to the reader; as it has been already 

 for many unique articles of indubitable interest to the scientific 

 world, that have been from time to time produced in our present 

 undertaking. 



