156 ILLUSTRATIONS OP SOME APRICAN SPECIES 
and the hind part dirty bufF. The elytra are considerably 
attenuated towards the apex; they are of a dirty fulvous colour, 
slightly varied with greenish, which colour forms an oblicj^ue fascia 
towards the base, and two or three obscure ocellated markings 
across the middle, placed obliquely, the apex of the elytra being 
black. The legs are greenish-black, with the tibise and tarsi dirty 
buff and green; the sides of the metasternum are marked with a 
large patch of bright fulvous scales, extending in front to the hind 
edge of the sternal process; the sides of the abdomen are also 
marked beneath with a sericeous-green patch. 
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS ?) NIVEISPARSA, C/ievr. MS. 
(Plate 84, fig. 5.) 
L. nigra, albo farinosa ; thorace fasciis 6 transversU niveis ; elytris niveo-punctato-striatis 
macuUsque quatuor niveis, tertia majori. 
Long corp. lin. 10. 
Habitat Port Natal. D. Bobemann. In ^lus. Chevrolat. 
The head is of moderate size, with the mandibles small, and not 
crossing each other at the tip ; the face is white, with slender 
black lines, which extend upwards between the antennse; the hind 
part of the head above is black. The prothorax is black, with six 
slender, white, powdery, transverse fasciae, the fifth of which is 
abbreviated, in consequence of the curved raised part of the pro¬ 
thorax extending between the lateral spines; the elytra are 
rounded at the humeral angles, and the disc is covered with a 
number of longitudinal strim, formed of small oblong white dots, 
in addition to which each is marked wdth four white spots: the 
first is round, and at the base in the middle; the second is also 
round, and at the side about one-third of the length of the elytra 
from the base; the third is large and round, being placed nearly 
in the middle of the elytra; and the fourth is subtrilobed, and 
placed near the extremity. The legs are black, covered with 
white powder ; the thighs black at the tips ; the body beneath is 
covered with white powder; the sternal processes are of compara¬ 
tively small size (fig. 5 a). 
This species agrees with Lamia regalis, Fabr., in the simple 
humeral angles and punctate-striate disc of the elytra, as well as 
in the comparative smallness of the sternal processes, and the 
spots of the elytra. In several of these respects, indeed, it 
approaches the sub-genus Zoographus, with which it appears to 
form the connecting link. 
