PLATE CLXXIII. 



Delineated from a fine example of this very extraordinary and 

 curious species preserved in the cabinet of the late Sir J oseph Banks, 

 Bart, and which is now the property of the Linneean Society. 



For this interesting addition to the entomological cabinet the 

 naturalist was originally indebted to the assiduity of that ingenious 

 collector, Mr. Smeathman; he visited Sierra Leona in the year 

 1775, and brought several of this species with him on his return to 

 Europe. There was one pair in the cabinet of the late Mr. Drury, 

 which, after his death, came into our possession, and some few other 

 specimens passed into different continental cabinets, all which, how- 

 ever, so far as we can learn, were those collected by Mr. Smeathman 

 at the time before mentioned. We are not aware of the species 

 having occurred in any other part of Africa, neither have we under- 

 stood that any other collector since Mr. Smeathman had met with 

 the species at Sierra Leona, the locality in which we are assured it 

 had occurred to him. 



