OF LONGICORN BEETLES. 
151 
Although Drury gives Jamaica as the habitat of this species, 
there can, I apprehend, he very little doubt of its being a native of 
Tropical Africa. He describes it thus :— 
“ Head orange-coloured, encircled with black stripes; antennm 
black, being a little longer than the insect; thorax orange- 
coloured, encircled with black rings, having a single spine on each 
side; elytra with orange-coloured clouds and spots on them 
separated by black partitions, some being margined with green ; 
abdomen orange-coloured, the middle being dirty green; femora 
simple, dark green; tibiae the same.**’ From Drury’s figure it 
appears very closely allied to L. mirabilis and ornata, if, indeed, 
it be not a local variety of those insects. 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) ORNATA. 
L. nigra fasciis macuUsque fulvo-aiireis; capitis thoracis et elytrorum mai^ine posteriori, parte- 
que fcmorum superiore, viridi nitentibus. 
SvN. L,ornataf OlivierEntomol. Ceramb., pi, 4, f. 24 a; Pal. Beauv., pi. 37, f. 1. 
AnCeravib,pukheryl>r\xTy? 
The description given by Olivier of his L, ornata from Africa, 
is as follows, and very nearly accords with the figure given by 
Drury of the preceding insect:— 
“ Cer. regalis affinis. Corpus nigrum pulvere fulvo-aurato, fere 
omnino tectum. Mandibulse magnm exsertse, basi et anterius 
dente valido armatse, apice nigrm hasi rufse medio virides. Lineis 
duabus nigris ah oculis ad mandibulas. Oculi viride circumscripti 
pnecipue postice. Thorax rufus, postice ad latera viiddis fasciis 
duabus nigris. Elytra rufa fasciis nigris numerosis anastomosan- 
tibus viridi marginatis. Apex elytrorum et sutura postice viridia. 
Corpus infra rufum carina abdominalis et pars superior femorum 
virides, apophysis trapezoidalis (prosternum) inter pedes anteriores.” 
The Rev. F. W. Hope possesses an old faded specimen from 
Lee’s Cabinet, labelled L. pulchra, wdiicli agrees with Olivier’s 
description and figure 24 a, and which might he regarded as a 
specimen of L. mirabilis, in which nearly the whole of the green 
markings had assumed a fulvous hue. 
The insect represented in Plate 84, fig. 2 (not being in a fully 
developed state), from the collection of M. Chevrolat, of Paris, is 
regarded by that entomologist as a variety of L, ornata, in which 
the fulvous colour of the typo is i*eplaced by pale buff, or straw 
colour, and the black interstices are tinged with blue instead of 
green. The body beneath is greatly varied with pale and dark 
