The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured . metastemum is greatly dilated, flattened, and spined beneath(fig. 3 a). There are two erect spines between the base of the fore wings, and another at the base ofeach; the legs are angulated, and \eiY much spined, especially the posterior til)ia3. Observations.—In our present ignorance of the female of this fine insect, I am unable to determinewhether it ought
The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured . metastemum is greatly dilated, flattened, and spined beneath(fig. 3 a). There are two erect spines between the base of the fore wings, and another at the base ofeach; the legs are angulated, and \eiY much spined, especially the posterior til)ia3. Observations.—In our present ignorance of the female of this fine insect, I am unable to determinewhether it ought to be formed into a separate subgenus, or whether it be not the male of a speciesof Eurycantha. The specimen before us is remarkable for the size of the fore wings which (except inPrisopus) are never more than half, and often not -^ of the length of the wings, in the species ofPhasmidse. The insect thus appears to be intermediate between Prisopus and Eiuvcantha, agreeingwith the latter in the armature of the legs and dilated metastemum. This is one of the fine insects sent to the Rev. F. W. Hope by that very zealous Naturalist,Dr. Theodore Cantor. Others equally worthy of being figured, are reserved for publication inthis PLATE VIII. (ORDER—COLEOPTERA. Division— Family—Lucanid^, Leach.) FIGURE DUX. Westw. (Annals op Nat. Hist., October 1841.) Lucanus atcr ; elytris nitidis ; capite piano utrinquc nigoso punctato, margine antico elevato ; latcribus poueoculos utrinquc spina obtiisa annatis ; mandibulis longitucline capiti ct prothoraci ttqualibus, valde curvatis ; intus(dentibus tribus subapicalibus cxceptis) inerniibus ; pronoto tcnuissime punctate, utrintiue bispinoso, anguliscjueposticis acutis, tibiis auticis apice cxtcmo .i-dentatis ; posticis 4 ineimibus apicibus extcrnis acutis. Lucamis black, with the elytra glossy ; the head flat and on each side rugose and strongly punctured, the anteri ormargin elevated and the sides behind t
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