Lampyris splendida, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. Lampyris Savignii? _Kirby Trans. Linn. &c._ v. 12. _Guérin. Icon. R. An. Ins._ _pl._ 14. _fig._ 7. HABITAT: Rio Janeiro. Antennæ setaceous, with a small spine, like a short hair, at each of the joints. Head withdrawn, and entirely hid by the shield-like thorax. Thorax yellow, margined and semicircular, with a rugged projection in the middle. Scutellum small, yellow, and triangular. Elytra dark red-brown, with a cream-coloured line running longitudinally from the thorax towards the apex, and having a small cream-coloured margin. Breast orange colour. Legs partly orange and black. Abdomen, which is rather thick, black, with a cream-coloured streak crossing it near the anus. {78}BLATTA (PHORASPIS) PICTA. Plate L. fig. 3. ORDER: Orthoptera. SECTION: Cursoria. FAMILY: Blattidæ. GENUS. BLATTA, _Linn. &c._ (SUBGENUS: Phoraspis, _Serville_.) BLATTA (PHORASPIS) PICTA. Atra; elytris vittâ sanguineâ thoracisque margine antico flavescenti. (Long. Corp. 9 lin.) SYN. Blatta picta, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 2. _p._ 10. _Serville Revis. Orthop._ _p._ 17. (Phoraspis p.) Lampyris rufo-vittata, _Schonh. Syn. Ins._ 3. _p._ 66. _No._ 47. HABITAT: Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Antennæ filiform, orbicular. Head dark brown, and retracted under the shield-like thorax, which is black, the anterior margin being yellowish. Elytra black and margined, semi-coriaceous, and crossing over one another, having a red streak from the shoulders to the apex. Abdomen black, having two spines at the extremity near the anus. Legs black and cursorial, the tibiæ being furnished with many spines. FULGORA DIADEMA. Plate L. fig. 4. ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Homoptera. FAMILY: Fulgoridæ. GENUS. FULGORA, _Linn._ FULGORA DIADEMA. Fusca, vertice, pronoti medio, elytrorum fasciâ luteis; alis purpureis, apice nigris, capitis cornu in medio dentato apice dentibus tribus majoribus. (Long. Corp. cum capitis cornu, 1 unc. 9 lin. Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.) SYN. Fulgora diadema, _Linn. Syst. N._ 1. 2. 703. 2. _Fabr. Syst. Rh._ 2. 3. _Stoll_, _fig._ 22. _Donovan Nat. Repos._ _vol._ 5. _fol._ 145. Fulgora armata, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. HABITAT: Cayenne (_Drury_).