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XXVII. The Natural History of Lamia Amputator of Fabricius. 

 By the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, A.B. F.L.S. $c. 



Read March 5, 1822. 



No apology, I conceive, will be thought necessary for offering 

 to the notice of the Linnaean Society the natural history of a 

 single species of the interesting family of Cerambycidce, which, 

 in its earlier stages, has never been described by the entomo- 

 grapher. 



Of all the coleopterous insects destined to accelerate the decay 

 of timber, there is no species perhaps whose habits are more 

 singular than those of the insect whose history is here detailed. 

 The Imago has long since been described by Fabricius from the 

 cabinet of the great and lamented Banks, which is now in the 

 possession of the Linnsean Society. 



INSECTA COLEOPTERA. 



Sect. Tetramera. 

 Earn. Cerambycidte, Leach. 



LAMIA Amputator. Fabr. 



Tab. XXX. 

 L. thorace spinoso, elytris cinereis nigro irroratis maculisque 



numerosis testaceis. 

 Fabric. Entom. Syst. torn. i. b. p. 270. 34. Syst. Bleuth. ii. 

 p. 29-3. 60. 



Long. 



