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as long as the head; their body is long, narrow and almost linear. 

 The palpi also are more salient. The eyes are entire(l). 



Sometimes the head is abruptly narrowed immediately behind the 

 eyes. The antennae, inserted near the anterior extremity of their 

 internal emargination, are remote at base. The two eminences from 

 which they rise are almost confounded in one plane. The thorax is 

 almost always smooth or without lateral tubercles. They are the 



Leptura, Dej. Dahl. 



Or Leptura properly so called. 



In some the thorax is almost plane above, and trapezoidal or coni- 

 cal. Of this number are 



L. armata, Gyll. ; L. calcarata, Fab., the male; L. subspinosa, 

 ejusd., the female; which is very common in summer in the 

 woods, on the flowers of the Bramble. The body is elongated 

 and black, the elytra are yellow Avith four transverse black lines, 

 the anterior of which is formed by points. The antennae are 

 picked in with black and yellow. The posterior tibiae of the 

 male are armed with two teeth. 



L. nigra, L.; Oliv., Col., 73, III, 36. Black and glossy, with 

 a red abdomen. 

 In others, the thorax is much more elevated and rounded, or 

 almost globular. Such is 



L. tomentosa, Fab.; Oliv., lb., II, 13. Black, with a yellow- 

 ish pubescence on the thorax; elytra of this same colour, and 

 the extremity black and truncated. Very common in the en- 

 virons of Paris(2). 



FAMILY V. 

 EUPODA. 



Our fifth family of the tetramerous Coleoptera is composed 

 of Insects, the first of which so closely approach the last Lon- 

 gicornes that they were confounded both by Linnaeus and 

 Geoffroy, and the last are so closely allied to the Chrysomelse, 



(1) Leptura ceramboides, Kirby, Lin. Trans., XII, xxiii, 11, and some other spe- 

 cies from Brazil. 



(2) See the species called rubra, virens, hastata, 2-pundata, scutellata, &c, and 

 as regards the genus, the Catalogues already quoted, the last volume of Gyllen- 

 hall's Insect. Suec.,and Olivier, Fabricius, &c. 



