BEETLES. ISO 



Genus Anthribus, Fabr. 



Elongated, with kidney-shaped eyes. The front margin is- 

 distinctly concave. The antennae are very long in the males^ 

 but only half as long in the females. The only British 

 species is : 



* A. albinus, Linn. (Plate XIV., Fig. 30). Blackish-brown^ 

 with greyish-brown pubescence. The proboscis, front of the- 

 head, and a spot on the elytra, are white. The extremity of 

 all the joints of the antennae is white in the male, but in the 

 female only the third joint has this colour. It lives in beech 

 and elm trees. It is local, and as a rule rare. 



Family XLIV. OERAMBYCID^ (Longicornia). 



Body long, and rather cylindrical than flattened. They are- 

 mostly large and handsome beetles, with setiform or filiform 

 antennae, which are usually as long as, or longer than, the body. 

 The legs are slender, with four-jointed tarsi and broad, spongy 

 pulvilli. These beetles live on flowers and on wood, and their 

 elongated larvte live in the stems and branches of trees. 



Genus Spondylis, Fabr. 



Cylindrical, with the pronotum narrowed in front and 

 behind. Antennae moniliform, and half the length of the 

 body. 



S. huprestoides, Linn. (Plate XY., Fig. 1). This is a black 

 beetle, thickly and irregularly punctured. It is found m 

 fir-woods, and the larva lives in old fir-stumps. 



Genus Ergates, Serv. 



Antennae setiform. Lateral border of the pronotum finely 

 notched, or toothed, with a small lateral spine. 



