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Show 574 EXPLANATION glossy~black; bead broad, with mandibles almost twice its length and terminated in a denticulated forceps, circularly distant a~ base. From Madagascar. Fig. 4. Cetonia bicornis, the male, of its natural size; oval, slightly narrowed posteriorly and of a glossy black; the elytra base and opposite ext1·emity excepted, red; the head divided into two long, projecting, compressed, and pointed horns. Brought from Timor by Messrs Peron and Lesueur. Fig. s. Hispa marginata of the natural size; bluish-black above and yellowish beneath; head, sides of the thorax, exterior margin of the elytra, their suture, and a transverse line near their middle, reddish. From Brazil. This species is a Fabrician .Ill urn us. Fig. 6 Hel:~us perforatus of the natural si~e; body, deep-black and glossy; an opening in the anterior part of the thorax for the passage of the head, and the two lobes of. the emargination crossing each other; disk of the elytra ful'nished with hairs arl'anged in longitudinal lines. Brought from the Kanguroo Islands by Peron and Lesueur. Fig. 7. Brentus appendiculatus of the natural size; blackish-brown; length of the head and proboscis equal to half that of the body; elytra with russet spots arranged in one line, abruptly narrowed at the extremity and prolonged in the manner of a linear tail; thighs simple. This Insect was brought from the Isle of France by M. Cat· toire. Olivier having described, under a nearly similar specific appellation (en queue), a species very analogous to this one in the termination of the elytra, we will call the Brentus, here re· presented, as Count Dejean has done, the Appendiculatus. N.B. For th ese various genera, see Index. Plate III. Fig. L Panagreus quadrimaculatus, Oliv., Encyc. Method.; of the natural size; black; a notch in each side of the thorax; elytra with punctured strire, and two fulvous-yellow spots on each. From Port Jackson. Peron and Lesueur. Fig. 2. Pamborus alternans, Lat., Encyc. Method., of the na· tural size; side of the thorax violet-blue; elytra dark-bronze and sulcated, sulci cut by transverse incisures, with a range of granules. Port Jackson. Peron and Lesueur. Fig. 3. Elater bicruciatus, of the natural size; black; superior surface of the thorax and elytra red; centre of the thorax black, with two sulci and a rib in the middle; elytra striated, with a band along the suture, a second that is transverse near the mid· 01·' TilE PLATJ~S. 575 die, and a th'l rd at their extre . naFt"e d.-From . Mada gascar. . mlty, all black'· ant~ nnre pecti- . Ig. 4. Omtis subjlavua th tmged with bronze on the' th e male of a natural size· ye]l . h verse line on the anter· . or~x and head; an elev' d OWlS cond an I . lOI supenor part of 1 ate trans- . gu ar one, Intenupted in . t 1e head, with a se-c~ dmg one; elytJ·a striated, with a thle .middle, behind the pre-gm .-Port Jackson p . p a It at the exterio F . · cron and L r mar-lg. 5. Cetonia bico . h esueur. , h rms, t e female f 1 to· t e male represented m. PI • I fig 'o t 1e natu'ral size s· 'I 4 b , 1m1 ar Simp. ly emarDo -inated • ' · • ut with the e p1· stoma Fig. 6. Helluo costatus of th gloss 1 e natural size· b d y anc punctured; elytra with I't I . ' o yentirely black son. This s pedes forms the 1 t e nbs.-From Port Jack' Fig. 7. Lamia venosa of th genus Helluo of Bonnelli, p 279- . h ' e natural · b · • IS ' and blackish mixed· a d Size; ody brown yellow ' n covered · h ' - three first joints of the an ten • 1 Wlt down as well as the tered, unequal and bl ac kI' s hnrse,p oe tys·t rath y ellowish grey, with s ca t - moderate.-From Bengal M C ' . orax spineless; antennre N B F • • atto1re • • or these various genera, see l~dex. END OF VOL. III. |