  FLATA ——? PUPA?Plate XLVIII. fig. 1. Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Homoptera. Family: FulgoridÆ. Genus. Flata, Fabricius, &c. Aphis, Drury. Flata —— Pupa? Corpore toto albo pulveroso vel lanoso. (Long. Corp. Ins. haud declar. 9 lin.) Syn. Aphis lanosa, Drury, App. vol. 3. Habitat: Head appearing united and fixed to the body, and furnished with a horny beak, about one-fourth the length of the whole insect. AntennÆ of equal thickness, and apparently only two-jointed; one next the head, which is white, another in the middle, the extreme part being black; the length being about a tenth part of the whole insect. Body white, and covered with a very fine cottony substance. Legs white at the base, the remainder black. The insect above is round, beneath flat; a fine soft white substance, like down, intermixed with hairs of different sizes, some being very small, others very coarse, arises from the abdomen. "I am not certain it is a complete insect."—Drury. This figure represents an insect belonging to the genus Flata (probably Flata nigricornis from South America) in an imperfect state, being most likely a pupa. The species of this genus are ascertained to be similar to this figure in their preparatory states, and especially the Flata nigricornis which is represented by Stoll, both in the winged and apterous condition, as well as by Donovan, in his Insects of China. CHOLUS URBANUS.Plate XLVIII. fig. 2. Order: Coleoptera. Section: Rhyncophora. Family: CurculionidÆ. Subfamily: Cholides. Genus. Cholus, Germar. RhynchÆnus, Fabr. Curculio p. Linn. &c. Cholus Urbanus. Fusco-viridis, thorace elytrisque flavo marginatis. (Long. Corp. rostr. inclus. 1 unc. 1½ lin.) Syn. Curculio urbanus, Oliv. Enc. MÉth. v. p. 503. Sch. Syn. Ins. Curcul. 3. 571. 17. (Cholus u.) Curculio cinctus, Drury, App. vol. 3. (nec Cholus cinctus, Oliv. RhynchÆnus.) Herbst. Col. vi. p. 478. t. 79. fig. 7. Habitat: Musquito Shore, near Honduras. Head black. Rostrum half the length of the insect. AntennÆ black, arising near the end of the beak. Thorax dirty green, with a cream-coloured stripe running on each side, which is continued along the sides of the elytra, meeting at the anus. Beneath cream colour. Legs the same, being dirty green above. Every part of the insect appears covered with innumerable small black pustules, like spots, some smaller than others, those on the upper side being largest. Each of the femora is furnished with a single spine. DYNASTES CLAVIGER.Plate XLVIII. fig. 3. Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: DynastidÆ. Genus. Dynastes, MacLeay. Geotrupes, Fabr. ScarabÆus, Linn. Latr. Dynastes Claviger. Rufus, thoracis cornu elevato apice dilatato; capitis longo, subulato recurvo. (Long. Corp. fere 2 unc.) Syn. ScarabÆus claviger, Linn. Mant. 1. p. 529. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 1. p. 5. No. 7. Syst. El. 1. p. 6. No. 11. Oliv. Ent. 1. 3. p. 20. No. 18. t. 5. fig. 40. a. b. Jabl. Nat. Syst. 1. p. 239. No. 10. t. 3. f. 1. Pal. Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Col. ix. pl. 1e. f. 1. Habitat: Cayenne. Head small, margined, and armed with a long horn which bends upwards. Thorax dark brown and margined, having a very remarkable erect and black horn issuing from it, which bends forward towards the head, the extremity of which is trifurcate, hollowed beneath, and covered with a brown pile like that of velvet. Elytra brown, the margin and suture being black. Legs black. Thighs brown. TibiÆ with two spurs. Anterior tibiÆ with three spines placed on the external part. HISTER (OXYSTERNUS) MAXIMUS.Plate XLVIII. fig. 4. Order: Coleoptera. Section: Clavicornes. Family: HisteridÆ. Genus. Hister, Linn. &c. (Subgenus: Oxysternus, Erichson.) Hister (Oxysternus) Maximus. Depressus ater nitidus; elytris striatis, mandibulis exsertis capite longioribus. (Long. Corp. cum mandib. 1 unc. 3 lin.) Syn. Hister maximus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 566. 1. Hololepta maxillosa, Park Mon. Hist. III. 9. t. ix. f. 7. Hister maxillosus, Drury, App. vol. 2. Oxysternus maximus, Erichson in Jahrb. der Ent. 1. 100. O. maxillosus, GuÉrin & Percheron Genera des Ins. 1. Col. pl. 7. (??) Fabricius Ent. Syst. vol. 4. Append. p. 437. Schonh. Syn. Ins. 1. p. 98. Habitat: Cayenne. Black. Head furnished with two horn-like mandibles, being thicker near the head, and terminating in a point; that fixed on the left side of the insect being longest. Thorax broad and margined. Elytra slightly striated. Scutellum not to be seen. Posterior tibiÆ rather long. Tarsi short. PHANÆUS FESTIVUS ?.Plate XLVIII. fig. 5. Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: ScarabÆidÆ. Genus. PhanÆus, MacLeay. Copris p. Fabr. ScarabÆus p. Linn. PhanÆus Festivus. Thorace gibbo bicorni, capitis cornu erecto ?, elytris rubro-Æneis; ? thorace mutico Æquali nigro-maculato, capite mutico. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 1½ lin.) Syn. ScarabÆus festivus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. p. 552. 252. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 1. p. 42. No. 139. Syst. El. 1. 32. No. 10. Oliv. Ent. 1. 3. p. 110. No. 127. t. 3. f. 21. a. b. De Geer Ins. iv. p. 315. t. 37. fig. 3. ?. 4. ?. Habitat: Cayenne. Head black, broad, rounded in front and margined. Thorax red and margined, having several black patches thereon. Scutellum not distinct. Elytra red and striated, being margined with black. Beneath black and shining. Legs thick and strong. COPRIS FAUNUS.Plate XLVIII. fig. 6. Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: ScarabÆidÆ. Genus. Copris, Geoffroy. ScarabÆus p., Linn. Copris Faunus. Thorace quadricorni, cornubus mediis brevissimis, lateralibus dilatatis, capitis cornu recurvo serrato. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 9 lin.) Syn. ScarabÆus Faunus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 1. p. 47. No. 155. Syst. El. 1. p. 38. No. 36. Oliv. Ent. 1. 3. 103. t. 10. f. 87. t. 22. f. 87. b. Jabl. Nat. Syst. II. p. 61. t. 9. f. 3. Habitat: Cayenne. Entirely black. Head rounded in front and margined; armed with a long horn that inclines towards the body, the inner part of which, near the top, is dentated. Thorax terminating at the corners, next the body, in two projections like horns, extending in an horizontal position, being very obtuse, and wider at the ends than the middle. The central part has two small projections which are bifid, and two dents on the middle of the posterior margin. Scutellum not distinct. Elytra deeply furrowed. Legs thick and strong. Fore and hinder tibiÆ dentated. RHIPICERA DRURÆI.Plate XLVIII. fig. 7. Order: Coleoptera. Section: Serricornes. Family: CebrionidÆ. Genus. Rhipicera, Latr. Kirby. Hispa, Fabr. Drury. Ptilinus, Fabr. Polytomus, Dalman. Ptiocerus, Hoffmansegg. Rhipicera DrurÆi. Thorace griseo sericeo; elytris brunneis albo-punctatis scutelloque albido, pedibus supra fuscis subtus griseis. (Long. Corp. 7½ lin.) Syn. Hispa mystacina, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 70. 1.? Syst. Eleuth. 1. p. 328. 1.? (Ptilinus m.) Herbst. Col. v. p. 45. t. 46. f. 13.? Laporte in Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, 1834. p. 235.? (Rhipicera m.) Habitat: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (Drury's MSS.). Head small, black, thin, and margined from the part where the antennÆ are placed; but behind them to the thorax growing suddenly thick and round. AntennÆ strongly pectinated, each ramification increasing from the base towards the middle, and then gradually decreasing in length; they are about a third part of the insect's length, and entirely black. Thorax grey, rounded, having a ridge on each side, and seeming covered with a fine pile or down. Scutellum grey and round, appearing like a whiteish spot. Elytra dark red-brown, covered with a multitude of small whiteish spots, furrowed and margined at the sides and suture. Breast and abdomen grey, each ring of the latter having some black spots on it. Legs brown above, grey beneath. I have attached a mark of doubt to all the synonyms quoted above, 1st. on account of the difference of locality between Drury's Insect, and that described by Fabricius, which is from New Holland. 2ndly. Because Drury's description does not agree with the true Rh. mystacina: and 3dly. because as there is another spotted species of the genus found in North America, described by Laporte, it is most probable that Drury's insect is altogether distinct, in which case I have proposed for it the name of Rhipicera DrurÆi. Mr. Kirby speaks of the New Holland species of this genus as though there were more than one, and he has described one from that country under the name of R. femorata, in the 12th volume of the Linn. Trans. No. 9. in which the thorax, as well as the elytra, is spotted with white, whereas the thorax of Mystacina is described by Fabricius as being "cinereus." The Rh. mystacina of Laporte entirely agrees with Mr. Kirby's Rh. femorata. The Rh. femorata of Dalman is a totally distinct species from Brazil, and as it is necessary that a new specific name should be given to it, I would suggest that it should be termed Rh. Dalmanni. SAPERDA SPECTABILIS.Plate XLVIII. fig. 8. Order: Coleoptera. Section: Longicornes. Family: LamiidÆ. Genus. Saperda, Fabr. Cerambyx P., Drury. (Subgenus: ——?) Saperda Spectabilis. Nigra, thorace flavo punctis tribus nigris, elytris fasciis duabus flavis, apice truncato et spinoso. (Long. Corp. 9 lin.) Syn. Cerambyx spectabilis, Drury, App. vol. 2. Sch. Syn. Ins. 3. 421. (Saperda s.) Habitat: Bay of Honduras. Head black, with a large yellowish spot between the eyes. AntennÆ black, and almost the length of the insect, having a row of short hairs running along the under side. Thorax black beneath, lemon-coloured above, with three black spots. Scutellum small, triangular, and black. Elytra black, with two broad straw-coloured bars crossing them, each having a spine at the extremity near the suture. Beneath black, except the middle of the abdominal rings, which is grey. |
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