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Show EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. Plate I. Fig. l. Grapaua penicilliger, of the natural size, porte-pinceau, p. 39. Fig. 2. Remipea teatudinariua, Lat. The subgenus is mentioned p. 57, and this species in note 2 of the same. It is yellowish and somewhat rugose, with five teeth in the anterior margin. See Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect.~ I, p. 45. Fig. 3. Pagurua laticauda, half size; a species'of the division of the Pagurua latro of the genus Bx~ous, Leach, quoted p. 58, much smaller and reddish; the two posterior feet very distinct, and, as well as the two preceding ones, bifid at the extremity; intermediate antennre as long as the lateral ones, or even longer; otherwise similar to the P. latro-From the East Indies. Plate II. Fig. 1. Goliath barbicornia, the male, of a natural size; above, a deep, dead, reddish-brown, tinged with bronze and dotted with grey; beneath and the legs bronze-green; anterior extremity of the head deeply cleft into two elevated, compressed and triangular horns, furnished on the inner side with yellowish down. From Brazil, and sent to the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, by M. Alexander Mac-Leay, Secretary to the Linnrea~ Society. For this genus, see p. 435. Fig. 2.. Bupreatia acutellatua, B, of the natural size; bronze above, and golden-green beneath; an impression with a cupreous- red spot near each posterior angle of the thorax; elytra with elevated lines resembling nervures, and five teeth on the exterior margin. It is in this last mentioned character only that it differs from the B. acutellaria, Fah., which i~habits the Isle of France, together with the preceding one. Fig. 3. Lucanua aerricornia, the male of the natural size |
