NECYDALIS. NECYDALIS. 
Generic Character. 
Antennce setacese. 
Elytra alls minora, breviora, 
sen angustiora. 
Caiula simplex. 
Antennae setaceous. 
Whig - Sheaths smaller, 
shorter, or narrower than 
the wings. 
Tail simple. 
In this genus the thorax is narrow and rounded, 
the body of a lengthened shape, and the wing- 
shells generally smaller than the wings. One of 
the most common species is the Necydalis mimr, 
an insect seen in fields and about hedges in the 
summer months, and which has somewhat of the 
habit of a small Cerambyx, but the wing-sheaths 
are but half the length of the body, and are grey- 
brown, each marked at the tip with a linear white 
spot, the rest of tiie insect being black. Its length 
is rather more than a quarter of an inch. 
Neeydalis ccerulea is a beautiful species. It is 
about half an inch in length, and entirely of a 
bright blue colour, sometimes greenish blue: the 
wing-shells are of the length of the body, but 
narrow, so as not to cover the sides of the wings; 
and the hind-thighs are very thick. It is found in 
w oods during the summer months. 
