CERAMBYX (CALLICHROMA) AFER. Thorace rotundato spinoso, corpore viridi,
suturâ elytrorum aureâ, antennis pedibusque rufis. (Long. Corp. 10½ lin.)
SYN. Cerambyx afer, _Linn. Mant. p._ 532. _Fabr. Syst. Ent._ 166. 9.
_Ent. Syst._ 1. II. _p._ 252. 4. _Syst. Eleuth._ II. _p._ 268. 7. (_C.
ater_, lapsu calami.) _Sch. Syn._ III. _App. p._ 150.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone and Calabar.
Head golden green. Mouth and palpi dirty orange. Eyes black. Antennæ
longer than the insect, orange brown. Thorax round, golden green, with
many small lines or waves crossing it; and having on each side an obtuse
spine. Scutellum small and triangular, golden green. Elytra margined,
extending beyond the anus; and, next the thorax, of a golden green, but
becoming less brilliant towards their extremities, where they are
spineless, having a yellow narrow line running on each side the suture.
Breast and abdomen golden green. Legs dark orange.
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