APPENDIX. No. IV.
Reading edition
Reptilia. (Reptiles.)
Gen. Monitor, Cuvier.
Sp. 1. Pulcher, Leach.
M. Supra niger albo pulcherrime zonatus et maculatus: zonis dorsalibus e maculis effectis, ventre albido nigro transversim vage lineato, cauda compressa carinata.
This elegant species was found in Fantee. The whole upper parts of the body, the legs and tail, are black, most beautifully banded and spotted with white. The bands on the tail are alternately wide and narrow; the wider bands are each much and abruptly dilated above into a kind of spot, whilst the narrow ones become gradually wider in the inverse direction. The legs are spotted above with white; the under parts of them, as well as of the belly and throat, are also of the same colour with the spots.
Gen. Chamæleon, of authors.
Sp. 1. Dilepis, Leach.
Ch. Capite supra sub plano utrinque bicarinato: carinis antice conniventibus, occipite utrinque squama magna instructo, dorso subspinoso-carinato.
This species may readily be distinguished from all that have been hitherto discovered, by the two large scales, affixed one on each side to the back part of the head. These scale-like processes, are covered by the same scaly integuments which cover the head and body.
Gen. Acontias, Cuvier.
Sp. 1. Punctatus, Leach.
A. Supra brunneo-fuscus obsolete purpurascens, squamis postice macula ventreque fulvescentibus.
Fantee.
Gen. Macrosoma, Leach.
1. Elegans, Leach.
Coluber elegans, Shaw.
Fantee.
Gen. Coluber, Cuvier.
1. Bicolor, Leach.
C. Supra badio-niger subtus albidus, squamis dorsalibus elongatis gradatim angustioribus; apice obtusiusculis.
Fantee.
2. Irroratus, Leach.
C. Badio-fuscus, gula pallida, squamis pulcherrime albido irroratis; dorsalibus subelongatis apice rotundatis.
Fantee.
3. Irregularis, Leach.
C. Azureo-virescens, ventre albido, squamis simplicibus irregularibus: dorsalibus ovatis: lateralibus superioribus superne truncatis; inferis subhexagonis.
Fantee.
The above three species of Coluber are decidedly new, as well as the Acontias; the latter is more particularly interesting, since it encreases the species of a very limited genus.
Arachnoïda.
Gen. Scorpio, of authors.
Sp. 1. Afer, Fabr.
Gen. Mygale, Latreille.
The only specimen was too mutilated to enable me to make out its specific character.
Myriapoda.
Of this class you found two species in Fantee; a Scolopendra, and a gigantic Julus; neither of which are in a sufficiently good state to enable me to make out whether they be described or not.
Insecta.
Gen. Tefflus, Leach, new genus.
Generic character.
Caput. Mandibulæ æquales edentulæ. Palpi labiales et maxillares externi articulo ultimo elongato-securiformi.
Thorax hexagonus antice et postice rectus. Alæ nullæ. Elytra coalita abdomen tegentia apicem versus utrinque sinuata. Tibiæ anticæ latere interiore apicem versus emarginatæ calcare elevato instructæ. Tarsi antici maris articulis duobus primis tenuiter dilatatis.
Habitus et Antennæ Carabi.
Sp. 1. Meyerlei.
Carabus Meyerlei, Fabr. Syst. Eleut. i. 169.—Voet. col. ii. tab. 39, f. 49.
Gen. Odontomerus, Dahl.
Sp. 1. Serratus.
Buprestis serratus, Fabr.
Fantee.
Gen. Cetonia, of authors.
Sp. 1. Marginata, Fabr.
Fantee.
Gen. Phyllotoma, Wm. MacLeay, MSS.
Sp. 1. Reflexa.
Melolontha reflexa, Fabr.
Fantee.
Gen. Helops, Fabr.
Sp. 1. Marginatus, Olivier.
Fantee.
Gen. Upis? Fabr.
Sp. 1. Cuprea.
Tenebrio Cupreus, Fabr.
Fantee.
Gen. Lamia, Fabr.
Sp. 1. Tri-fasciata, Fabr.
Fantee. This species is also found at Sierra Leone, and in the Back Settlements of the Cape of Good Hope.
Gen. Petrognatha, Leach.
Character
Caput thorace paulo latius. Antennæ (maris corpore duplo longiores et ultra,) articulo secundo longiore flexuoso. Labrum lineare transversum nudum utrinque rotundatum. Mandibulæ petrosæ (maris interne apicem versus obtuse unidentatæ,) infra et externe irregulariter carinatas. Palpi maxillares et labiales articulo ultimo basi subattenuato, apice externe oblique truncato-acuminato.
Thorax transversus utrinque 1-spinosus. Elytra humeris 1-spinosis, apiceque ad saturam spinoso-subproducto.
Sp. 1. Gigas.
Lamia Gigas, Fabr.
Fantee.
Gen. Callichroma, Latreille.
Sp. 1. Festivum.
Cerambyx festivus, Oliv. Fabr.
Fantee.
Gen. Mantis.
Sp. 1. Superstitiosa, Fabr.
Fantee
This species, as well as its congeners, is an object of superstitious veneration amongst the natives of north-western Africa, Syria, and India. It agrees in all points with the original specimen of Superstitiosa, so named by Fabricius in the Banksian Cabinet.
Gen. Gryllus, Fabr.
Sp. 1. Squarrosus, Fabr.
Fantee.
Gen. Reduvius, Fabr.
Sp. 1. Barbicornis, Fabr.
Fantee.
I have received this species from the Cape of Good Hope.
Gen. Canopus, Rodhe.
Sp. 1. Punctatus, Leach.
Supra olivaceo-ater impresso-punctulatus rubro punctatus, subtus ruber segmentis marginibus stigmatibus tibiis tarsisque nigris, capite rubro irrorato.
Gaboon.