LAMIA (AGAPHANTIA) BIPUNCTATA. Grisea; thorace spinoso, frontis cornu
porrecto apice emarginato incurvo, elytris puncto nigro posticé flavo.
(Long. Corp. fere 1 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Cerambyx bipunctatus. _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
Lamia fronticornis, _Fabr. Sp. Ins._ 1. 216. 2. _Syst. Eleuth._ 2. 281.
3. _Oliv. Ent._ 4. 67. 79. 163. _t._ 8. _f._ 54.
Cerambyx notatus, _Voet. Col. Ed. Panz._ 3. 32. 46. _t._ 11. _f._ 46.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone.
General colour brownish grey. Head deep and grey; one of the sexes having
a remarkable thick and strong tubercle issuing from the middle of the
face, terminating in two black acute angles, like horns. Mouth armed with
two strong black jaws, and four grey palpi. Antennæ grey, and longer than
the insect. Thorax grey, the sides terminating in a thick spine; having a
broad, white streak crossing it on each side, and extending along the
abdomen, beyond the middle legs, narrowing to its extremity. Scutellum
small and triangular. Elytra grey and margined, having two round black
spots on each, the {60}largest placed about the middle near the suture;
the other (a small one) is on this side joined to the margin. A
cream-coloured spot is situated just below the former, which extends from
thence to the lateral margin. Legs grey, without any spines or marks.