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ILLUSTRATIONS OP SOME AFRICAN SPECIES 
with the underside tinged with opaline green. The mandibles 
are large, and furnished with an angular tubercle near the base 
on the outside; they are black, with the disc opaline green, which 
is also the colour of the upper lip and palpi. The prothorax is 
black, with the disk irregular, being marked with two transverse 
impressions. The scutellum and elytra are black; the latter 
with the shoulders rather rounded (not obliquely truncate), and 
the outer margins beyond the middle coloured yellow, dilated 
towards the apex. The abdomen is golden-coloured above, and 
black beneath, except the two basal segments, which are yellow. 
The prosternum is rather prominent and dilated, sub-truncated, 
(fig. 1 di) and the mesosternal process is also slightly prominent 
and rounded in front. The underside of the whole of the thorax 
is yellow; the legs are black, the upper side of an opaline green, 
and the under side of the coxse and femora yellow. 
Notwithstanding the great length of the antennm, and especially 
of the last joint of those organs, in the unique specimen hitherto 
known of this species, indicating the male sex, the slight toothing 
of the mandibles, and moderate size of the sternal processes, are 
remarkable. (Fig* 1 the head, seen in front; 1 5, the same, 
sideways; 1 c, the thorax beneath.) 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) CRUX NIGRA. Hope, 
(Trans. Zool. Soc. 1, p. 104, pi. xv, fig. 2. Plate 85, fig, 4.) 
L. straminea; thorace nigro, vittis tribus luteis ; elytris macula cruciformi nigra alterisque 
duabus rotundatis aurantiis. 
Long. corp. lin, 11. Lat. 4. 
Habitat in Sierra Leone, D. Palin. In AIus. D. Hope. 
This lovely species has the antennm very long, and 11-jointed, 
the terminal joint being but moderately elongated; they are black 
above, and light greenish grey beneath. The head is black, varied 
with luteous, and with two golden-coloured spots beneath the 
eyes. The thorax is black, with a golden-coloured spot on each 
side, and a central and two lateral luteous vittse, the dorsal one 
being interrupted in front, and ending before the scutellum, which 
is concolorous. The elytra are pale straw-coloured, variegated 
with lemon and dark and light orange tints, and marked with 
a large black (St. Andrew'^s) cross, having two red and two pale 
buff spots. The body beneath is unicolorous; and the feet are 
black above, and grey beneath. 
