. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. as first very concisely described by Mr. G. , in the Zoological Miscellany*. Boisduval subsequently gavea more detailed description of its upper side from a drawing senthim by the former author. I have therefore preferred figuring theunder side. The upper surface of the fore wings differs from theunder in having the black bars at the extremity of the wing moredistinct and broader, and the under wings are much less varied withthe dark marks, which are confined nearly to the apical space between the
. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. as first very concisely described by Mr. G. , in the Zoological Miscellany*. Boisduval subsequently gavea more detailed description of its upper side from a drawing senthim by the former author. I have therefore preferred figuring theunder side. The upper surface of the fore wings differs from theunder in having the black bars at the extremity of the wing moredistinct and broader, and the under wings are much less varied withthe dark marks, which are confined nearly to the apical space between the base of the tail and the anal angle is coveredby a patch of black ; the yellow spot is, however, not surmountedby the black line. I am indebted to Captain Parry for an opportunity of figuringthis rare species, which he received from Semlah, in the EastIndies. The Nepalese plant represented in the plate is the OrchidaceousTribrachia reptans. Lindl. Coll. Bot., tab. 41. * The Plates and descriptions of General Hardwickes insects, quoted by Boisduval, have notbeen published. s6. 25 PLATE LVI. ON THE LONGICORN COLEOPTERA OF NEW ZEALAND. Captain F. Parry having placed in my hands for publicationsome of the Longicorn species of beetles which he has recentlyobtained from New Zealand, I have considered that it would beserviceable to add to my descriptions a list of all the Longicornspecies, hitherto described as natives of that country, which isaccordingly given beneath, being chiefly derived from the Appendixto Dieffenbachs Travels. Species I.—Prionus (Prionoplus) reticularis, White, in Dieff. Trav. vol. ii. App. p. 276. (Plate -56, fig. 1). P. piceo-fuscus; facie, pronoto, et thorace subtus pilis aureo-fuscis tomentosis, elytris pallide corp. lin. 17—18. This Prionus forms a section or sub-genus distinct from Sceleo-cantha and Toxeutes of Newman (Annals and Mag. of Nat. pp. 14, 15), the latter founded on the Australian Prionus arcuatm,Fabr.; it differs e
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