Volume 8, Plate XXVII / Entomology (Insects)

Sagra Buquetii

The male about thirteen lines long and six broad, perfectly smooth and polished, brilliant green with highly resplendent purple and coppery reflections, the hinder thighs remarkably long and thick and armed beneath with acute teeth, the hinder tibiae fringed with rust-red hairs. The female is smaller, less narrowed behind, with oval thighs and naked tibiae; it inhabits Cochin China and is probably found also in Java.