Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. eBook

John Lort Stokes
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 467 pages of information about Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1..

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. eBook

John Lort Stokes
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 467 pages of information about Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1..

Head, thorax, scutellum, body and legs, entirely black.  Elytra light orange with three slight keels, the outer somewhat forked.  Head coarsely punctured.  Thorax with scattered punctures, and three or four depressions on the upper part.

Length 6 and 7 lines.

Habitat:  New Holland.

This new genus comes near Palaestra laporte (Anim.  Artic. 2 250) and
Tmesidera westwood (in Guerin’s Mag. de Zool. 1841, plate 85.)

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Tranes vigorsii (Hope) Schoenh.  Curc. 7 2, 130.

STOKES, INSECTS.  PLATE 2, FIGURE 3.

Cinnamon brown, the sides of the thorax with yellowish brown hairs, and patches in the striae of the same coloured hairs.  Sides of the body beneath covered with yellowish hairs.  Thorax very minutely punctured. glossy, with a very short deepish groove in the middle behind.

Length 9 to 11 lines.

Habitat:  New Holland.

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CYCLODERA, White.

Antennae as long as the body, 11-jointed, first joint thick knobbed, second very small, terminal longer than third, pointed with a blunt tooth beyond the middle.  Thorax globular, wider than the body.

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Cyclodera quadrinotata.

INSECTS.  PLATE 2, FIGURE 6.

Head, antennae, thorax, body and legs, black.  Elytra yellowish red, tip and a large oblong spot on each black, the spot not reaching either margin of the elytron; under side of abdomen covered with silky hairs.  The head is coarsely punctured, the thorax minutely chagrined with a deep indented spot on each side behind the middle.  Elytra finely chagrined, with faint indications of two or three longitudinal lines on each.

Length 7 1/2 lines.

Habitat:  New Holland, North-West Coast.

This well marked species seems to be allied to the genera Arhopalus and
Hesperophanes.

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Clytus (Obrida) fascialis.

INSECTS.  PLATE 2, FIGURE 4.

Head black, punctured; antennae black, seventh and eighth joints yellowish.  Thorax black, punctured and hairy, a short narrow smooth line on the back behind.  Elytra purplish violet, with three longitudinal keeled lines not extending to the tip, coarsely punctured, except on the lines which are smooth:  two first pairs of legs red, tips and bases of the joints darkish; tarsi with brownish hairs, posterior legs deep black; tibiae with longish hairs.

Length 4 lines.

Habitat:  New Holland.

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Callipyrga turrita.  Nemman, Entomologist, 413.

STOKES’ INSECTS.  PLATE 2, FIGURE 5.

Habitat:  New Holland, near Sydney.

The figure of this beautiful longicorn beetle, is drawn from the original specimen described by Mr. Newman; it is now in the collection of the British Museum.

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Microtragus senex.

INSECTS.  PLATE 2, FIGURE 7.

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