PLATE CLXL 



The Linnaean entomologist will learn with pleasure that the 

 figure now presented affords an accurate representation of one of the 

 hitherto unfigured rarities of the Linnaean cabinet, a collection at 

 the present time the property of Sir J. E. Smith, the very worthy 

 president of the Linnaean Society. The description of this truly 

 interesting article occurs in more than one or two of the writings of 

 Linnaeus, but we have every reason to believe the figure of the species 

 does not occur in the work of any author. There is no reference 

 to a figure by Linnaeus ; he refers only to the cabinet of the Queen 

 of Sweden for the specimen described, and informs us it is a native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. We rest persuaded, that although this 

 insect is one of the smaller size, and not particularly remarkable for 

 its beauty, the entomologist will receive with no small degree of 

 gratification an illustration of a species, which, for the before men- 

 tioned reasons could have been only hitherto imperfectly under- 

 stood ; from the writings of Linnaeus it must have been known that 

 such an insect did exist ; at the same time it must be confessed, that 

 his description cannot possibly convey such an exact idea of the 

 object itself as the figure now submitted to the reader. 



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