LONGICORN BEETLES FROM TROPICAL WESTERN AFRICA. 
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beneath is fulvous, with the middle of the abdominal segments 
black and shining. 
The sternums (figs. 2 a, 2 5) although porrected, are not near 
fio large as in the last-described species. 
Species III,—LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) AMCENA. TVcstw. (In Annals of Nat. Hist. 
October, 1841.) 
(Plate b‘9, fig. 3, and details.) 
L. nigra, opaca, pronoto maculis duabus conoideis, lateribusque; maculis circiter 10 (magni- 
tudine variis), lateribusque elytrorunj viridi-lacteis ; duabus in medio elytrorum maximis 
alterisque duabus posticis.elongatis et valde aogustis. 
Long. corp. lin. 11—16. 
Habitat in Africa tropicali (Gold Coast), D. Haddon. In mus. Melly et nostro. 
This very distinct species has the face black, with a silvery green 
line running from the inner margin of each eye nearly to the 
mouth, where it meets an angulated slender line of the same 
colour, extending across the lower part of the face ; there is also 
a small spot of the same colour behind, and another beneath each 
eye. The entire sides of the prothorax, except the spines, are 
cream-coloured; the two spots on the elytra near the base of the 
suture are nearly connected. The tlioracic segments beneath are 
pale buff, and the abdominal segments black and glossy, with four 
pairs of round spots of pale silvery green, and two other oblong 
patches of the same colour on the terminal segment- The ster¬ 
nums (figs. 3 a, 3 6), are less prominent than in either of the 
preceding species, although resembling those of L. Palinii in form. 
I am indebted to W. Raddon, Esq., for this and other inte¬ 
resting insects from the Gold Coast. 
Species IV.—LAMIA (TRAGOCEPHALA) PULCHELLA. fVesiw, 
(Plate 69, fig. 4, and details.) 
L. supra nigra opaca pronoti marginibus antico et postico guttulisque numerosis elytrorum 
Isete viridibus, fasciaque media pronoti, basi et medio elytrorum maculisque duabus 
apicalibus fulvis. 
Long. corp. lin. 8. 
Habitat apud Sienam Leonam. In mue. H. Hope. 
This lovely insect in its cylindric form agrees with the other 
Tragocephalse of De Jean; but from all of these it differs in its 
colours, which in their contrasts and arrangement resemble those 
