. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. Species II. (XLIX.)—Apiocera asillca, Westw. (Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag. June 1835.)Nigra, vertice et thoracis lateribus piceis, palpis albidis, alarum venis nigris ^ . Long,corp. lin. 10^. Expans. alar. lin. 17. Habitat in Nova Hollandia. Mus. nostr. Species III. (L.)—■ Apiocera fuscicollis, Westw. (Op. cit.) Obscure fusca, thoracecinereo subvittato, palpis albidis, alarum venis internis pallidis, corpora subtus albidovilloso. Expans. alar. lin. 17. Habitat in Nova Hollandia ? Mus. Hope. Obs.—I am by no means sat
. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. Species II. (XLIX.)—Apiocera asillca, Westw. (Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag. June 1835.)Nigra, vertice et thoracis lateribus piceis, palpis albidis, alarum venis nigris ^ . Long,corp. lin. 10^. Expans. alar. lin. 17. Habitat in Nova Hollandia. Mus. nostr. Species III. (L.)—■ Apiocera fuscicollis, Westw. (Op. cit.) Obscure fusca, thoracecinereo subvittato, palpis albidis, alarum venis internis pallidis, corpora subtus albidovilloso. Expans. alar. lin. 17. Habitat in Nova Hollandia ? Mus. Hope. Obs.—I am by no means satisfied of the specific diversity ofthese three insects; my specimen of A. asilica being in a verymutilated state. Obs.—Mydas bilineata, Fabr., Ent. Syst. 4, p. 253, a native ofNew Zealand, described from the Banksian Cabinet, and now inthe collection of the Linnsean Society, is a large species of Thereva. The orchidaceous plant figured in Plate 14, is the AustralianThelymitra Ixiodes, Sicartz ; all the insects on this plate beingnatives of New Holland. 1$. \- ^gf^k. 57 PLATE XV. DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW LONGICORN BEETLES FROM THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO, In the magnificent collection of insects made in the PhilippineIslands by H. Cuming, Esq., (a complete series of which, includingall the unique species, has been secured for the British Museum),were contained single specimens of each of the insects repre-sented in the three upper figures of the accompanying plate, andwhich, from their great singularity, beauty, and rarity, will bedeemed valuable subjects for illustration in this work. The first species has been described by Mr. G. R. Waterhousein a paper read before the Entomological Society, under the nameof Doliops Ciirculiojwides, from the extraordinary resemblancewhich it bears to a certain species of the Curculionideous genusPachyrhynchus, also found by Mr. Cuming in the same country. Thefollowing are the characters of the genus given by Mr. Waterhouse:— DOLIOPS, Wa
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