THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 187 



THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA. 



BY H. F. WICKHAM, IOWA CITY, IOWA. 



XXVI. The Cerambycid.e of Ontario and Quebec. — (Continued.) 



Bellamira, Lee. 



With this genus begins a series of beetles in which the neck is 

 longer than in Encyclops, owing to the constriction of the head being 

 near the eyes. B. scalaris, Say, is a very fine insect, varying in length 

 from .75 to 1.20 inch. The form is slender, the elytra tapering greatly 

 to and rounded at tip, deeply sinuate at sides, the tip of the abdomen 

 uncovered. The prothorax is bell-shaped, with prominent, rather flat- 

 tened hind angles. Colour brownish ; most of the head, the greater por- 

 tion of the fore and middle legs, the bases of the hind femora and the 

 bases and tips of the' ventral segments inclining to reddish or even yel- 

 lowish. Antennte rufous. Elytra brownish, with a large common, 

 lighter (golden-sericeous), wedge-shaped mark (wavy on the edges and 

 sometimes interruped at about one-third its length by a transverse 

 brownish band) which extends about two-thirds to tip. The body is 

 finely and densely, in most places rugosely, punctured, clothed with fine 

 golden pubescence, which is much denser on certain parts, notably the 

 abdomen. Recorded as breeding in birch, and has been seen oviposit- 

 ing in maple stumps. 



Strangalia, Serv. 



Includes two extremely elongate slender species, having the general 

 form of Bella?nira, but much smaller. S. bicolor, Swed., is entirely 

 rufous except the eyes, the tips of the mandibles, the incisures of some 

 of the tarsal joints and the elytra, which are black. Length .48-.56 

 inch. kS. luteicornis, Fabr., is rufo-testaceous or yellowish ; the eyes, 

 some markings on the under side, a ring at the tip of the hind femora, 

 two dorso-lateral stripes on the prothorax, a narrow basal and three 

 other transverse bands on the elytra, black. Length .36-52 inch. 



Typocerus, Lee. 

 The impressed poriferous spaces on the antennte, which separate 

 this genus from Leptura, are to be looked for near the bases of the sixth 

 and following joints, appearing as elliptical smoother spots. A good 

 plan is to take the common T. velutinus as a type for examination, 

 since in this species they are very distinct, and having once seen them 

 their detection is easy in the . remaining species. The four Canadian 



