THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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longicorn I did not at first know, but which on closer examination proves to 

 be a specimen of Gracilia minuta. Fab. (Fig. 2.) My friend, Mr. Caulfield, 

 who has very kindly placed all his specimens in my hands, states it was taken 

 emerging from a barrel of some kind of dye, and it is probably introduced 

 from Southern Europe. Superficially it resembles somewhat one of the clytini 

 and, in fact, Schiodte placed it immediately after clytus. (Class. Cramb. 

 Dan. Faun., Natur. Hist. Tidsskrift, 1864, S. 3. V. 2, p. 483.) But the 

 slightly depressed elytra, corneous ligula, not finely granulate eyes, etc., 

 would point to its being perhaps more properly placed in CEme of ceram- 

 bicini. For the benefit of those who may not know it, and especially as 

 it does not appear, so far as I am aware, to have been before recorded 

 from Canada, it may be well briefly to describe it. 



The figure (2) it is hoped will convey some 



idea of its general form. It is of a uniform 



, . ,, ,, , reddish brown, the legs being somewhat lighter, 



^*^ w^w/ B w'th rather sparse cinereous pubescence giving 



it a hoary appearance. The antenufie are ciliate 

 and the head, thorax and elytra furnished with 

 flying hairs. Rather variable in size, .i8-.27 in. 

 Leconte states (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., 

 1850, pt. I, p. 24) he could find no difference 

 between his specimen and those from Europe. 

 As somebody may have it under a different 

 name, I will give the synonyms : G. mhiuta, 

 Fab. ^pygmcea, Fab. =fusca, Hald. 

 Fig. 3 represents the labium (A) 

 the ligula and paragloss^e being in 

 this case confused and indistinct ; 

 B latral palpi ; Y basal membrane 

 of labium. 



Fig. 4 shows the mesohotum 

 which is large, glabrous, margined 

 at sides and covered with stridulat- 

 ing surface consisting of extremely 

 fine transverse lines. 



