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NEW ROSTRATED L0CUSTIDA3. 
The insect represented in the lower figure constitutes a new 
genus, which, notwithstanding the great size of the frontal pro¬ 
minence, I arrange in Serville’s section Conophori, and to which 
may be applied the generic name of 
BACTROPIIORA, W. 
Corpus elongatum subcylindricum ; caput magnum, oculis magnis prominentibus, fronte in 
baculum (capite fere duplo longiorem) cylindricum, infra carinatum producto. Antenna 
prothoracis longitudine, 24-articulatm, parum compress®, articulis 3tio et proximisbrc- 
vissimis ct tenuioribus ; inter et prope oculos ad basin rostri insert®. Facies infra 
valdc turnida; labruni maximum bilobum. Prothorax tuberculatus, absque carina 
dorsali, canalibus duobus transversis impressus. Pedes 4 antici breves. Prosternum 
dente brevi obtuso armatum. 
BACTROPHORA DOMINANS, JV. (PL 17, fig. 2.) 
Tota lutco-fulva, antennis (articulis 2us basalibus exceptis) nigris, tegminibus fusco-nebulosis 
alis a pice fnscis. 
Long. corp. rostro incluso unc. 3J. Long, rostri ante oculos ^ unc. Expans. tegm. 
unc. 4. 
Habitat—? In Mus. Soc. Zool. Lond. 
The produced front,of the bead forms a snout somewhat like that of some species of Fulgora, 
ascending a little from tlie impressed arched channel between the eyes; the under side is rather 
rugose, and along the centre runs a carina which terminates in the acute arched, rather dilated 
apex : this carina at its base is furcate, each branch extending to the base of one of the an- 
tenn® ; the pronotum is covered with small tubercles, which even extend along the anterior 
margin, two being of larger size in the middle. The tegmina are opakc and very closely reti¬ 
culated ; they are of the same colour as the rest of the body, but arc clouded with many small 
patches of brown ; the wings are pale fulvous at the base, with the apex dark brown. 
I regret that the locality of this extraordinary and unique insect 
is unknown. 
The plant figured is part of a twig of Combretum comosum, a 
splendid species found at Sierra Leone. 
