Mei so 
* 
j^ with 4 z foort Hiflory of the Cerambys violaceus of . Linnaeus. 249 
maxillo, A (a ). nidificates in pofts and rails. - Apis violacea, as We 
learn from Reaumur( 6), conftru&s curious cells for its young, of 
feveral ftories, in the fupports of efpalier trees. Apis furcata (c) 
makes fimilar cells in decaying wood. Many other infeéts of this 
clafs, particularly Spheges, and illegitimate Ve/pe, emerge from cylin- 
drical holes in trees and poíls, in which they were pile in 
their larva ftate. | 
Of Dipterou; infeCts, the, Tipula peétinicornis, fingular for the 
branching antennz of the male, and many other fpecies of that 
genus, in their larva ftate, inhabit putrefcent wood (d): and a nu- 
merous army of the Onifcus Afellus, to name no other infect in the 
Aptera clafs, is generally to be met with in thofe parts of decaying 
trees ute A which E deferted uL other nitasi upon 
paee. 
sing gone over ee ctbor edis it remains dat we mention 
the devourers of wood amongít the Coleoptera. Foremoft in the 
ranks comes the gigantic Lucanus Cervus, whofe larva feeds upon 
the decaying wood of the oak (e) and the elm. In the latter is 
alfo found. the Lucanus inermis (f). The ath affords nourifhment 
both to Lucanus parallelipipedus and L. cylindricus. (Scarabeus cylin- 
 dricus of Linn. but furely a true Lucanus.) The feveral fpecies of 
the genus {ps ( Bulvictis Fab.) feed upon timber between the bark 
(a) Marfham in Lian. Tranf. Vol. iii. p. 27, 28. 
(4) Reaumur, Tom. vi. Mem. ii. Tab. 5. 
(0 Furcata. E cinereo pubefcens; atra; antennarum articulo primo, fronte, labio- 
que flavis : abdomine apice furcato ; tarfis ferrugineis. Panzer. Fn. Inf. Germ. Init. No. Wi. 
‘Dab. 8. OM. Panzer's infect is dié male of this fpecies. 
(d) Habitat in carie arborum folitaria larva, pupaque. Schrank. Enum, * Ab r. 
p. 423. n. 853. Ihave found the pupa in the fame fituation. 
(e) In Europz ligno quercino putrido. Lina. Sf Nat. — af ; 
(7) Inermis. 2 L. fcutellatus, convexus, brunneus, maxillis brevibus diente laterali 
- elevaro. Marfham M. S. 
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