. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. maculisque duabusapicalibus fulvis. Long. corp. lin. 8. Habitat apud Sierram Leouain. Iu mus. D. Hope. This lovely insect in its cylindric form agrees with the otherTragocephalse of De Jean; but from all of these it differs in itscolours, which in their contrasts and arrangement resemble thoso 86 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME SPECIES OF LONGICORN BEETLES. of some of the Sternotomes. The face is green with a slender lineof black down the middle; the labrum is fulvous ; the upper part ofthe head black, with a green margin to
. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. maculisque duabusapicalibus fulvis. Long. corp. lin. 8. Habitat apud Sierram Leouain. Iu mus. D. Hope. This lovely insect in its cylindric form agrees with the otherTragocephalse of De Jean; but from all of these it differs in itscolours, which in their contrasts and arrangement resemble thoso 86 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME SPECIES OF LONGICORN BEETLES. of some of the Sternotomes. The face is green with a slender lineof black down the middle; the labrum is fulvous ; the upper part ofthe head black, with a green margin to the eyes. The antennaeand pronotum jet black, except the basal joint of the former andthe front and hind margins of the latter, which are splendid green ;across the middle of the pronotum runs an irregular slenderfulvous fascia. The body beneath is splendid green with the sidesof the metasternum fulvous, and a triangular patch in the middleof the hind margin of each segment, which is^black and glossy. Themesosternal process is small and scarcely prominent (figs. 4 a, 4 b).. J 2:44: PLATE LXX. ILLUSTRATIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF GRASSHOPPERS FROMCOLOMBIA AND MEXICO. The insects represented in the accompanying Plate are herereferred to the genus Phaneroptera of Latreille, with the generalStructure of which they best agree; they possess, however, suchsingular characters in the spinose and foliaceous appendageswith which they are armed, and the antennae in the males of oneof them are so curious, that I presume that they will by somewriters be regarded as proper subjects, requiring the establishmentof distinct sub-genera for their reception. Species I.—PHANEROPTERA ALIPES. Westw.(Plate 70, fig. 1 $ and 1 %, and details.)P. pallide albo-virescens, tegminibus angustis apice intus dilatatis ; margine interno nigromaculato fasciaque obliqua paullo ante apiceni, capite inter oculos mucronato, antennis,in mare saltern, fascicnlato-nodosis, femoribus posticis foliis latis subapicalibus
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