The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . tennaj, for example, have the terminal article of a pale thorax, beside the ridge and groove, p- ,has four diverging minor ridges radia-ting from the middle ridge (fig. 1); andthe reticulations of the elytra betweeneach ridge are singly scalariform, as shownin fig. 2, and not doubly scalariform asin the next species. 2. Metriorhynchus semijiabellatus. Fig. semi/labeUatus, Thorns. Arch. Ent. ii. p. 79. Mr. Thomsons description of whatI suppose to be this is as follows:— Above yellow, with the middle of


The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . tennaj, for example, have the terminal article of a pale thorax, beside the ridge and groove, p- ,has four diverging minor ridges radia-ting from the middle ridge (fig. 1); andthe reticulations of the elytra betweeneach ridge are singly scalariform, as shownin fig. 2, and not doubly scalariform asin the next species. 2. Metriorhynchus semijiabellatus. Fig. semi/labeUatus, Thorns. Arch. Ent. ii. p. 79. Mr. Thomsons description of whatI suppose to be this is as follows:— Above yellow, with the middle ofthe prothorax, the scutellum, and a littlemore than the posterior third of theelytra black ; below, legs and antennaeblack, as well as the base of the thighs,the middle of the metasternum and thelast article of the antennae yellow. Very elongated, slender, parallel. Antennse very broad,with prolonged articles diminishing towards the extremity;prothorax angularly rounded in front, in the middle a ridgechanging behind into- a broad groove. Elytra straight on thesides, h


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