302 THE entomologist's record. 



the body, legs, and thorax are reddish-yellow. On the thorax arc two 

 distinct black spots on the disc. I have a specimen I took this year 

 that has two additional black spots placed behind the ordinary pair, 

 and nearer to the sides of the thorax. I propose to call this aberra- 

 tion Oberea ocnlata ab. quadrimaculato, n. ab. I examined all the 

 specimens of this beetle in the Natural History Museum, with Mr. 

 Gahan, both in the British and foreign collections, and we could find 

 nothing like it ; some of the specimens had a tendency, though very 

 faint, and not distinct, as in my specimen, to show two extra spots, 

 but these were in front of the ordinary spots. This suggests the possi- 

 bility of an aberration occurring with six spots on the thorax ! As 

 some of the other species of the genus have more than two spots on 

 the thorax, this may be a reversion to an ancestral type. In looking 

 through Professor Beare's specimens, I find that he also has a !^}ecimen 

 of the ab. qxiadrhuaculata, Donis., which he took this year, at the same 

 time as I took my specimen. I have a specimen of the typical form, 

 also taken at the same time by me this year, which has a curious 

 symmetrical malformation of the antennte. The apex of the third 

 joint and base of the fourth in each are bent downwards, forming a 

 curve, reminding one somewhat of the structure of the antenna3 in the 

 males of some species of Mdik. The insect is confined to the Fen 

 districts, and is found on and about the sallow bushes, and on hot 

 sunny days may be seen flying from bush to bush. It appears to be 

 found from June till September. The larva feeds in the stems of the 

 sallow. I took my first specimen in August, 1890, and three more in 

 August, 1897, in Wicken Fen. I am pleased to say that this year it 

 occurred in abundance. One specimen has been recorded from Romney 

 Marshes. 



Of the two species of Ccraviby.r, in the catalogue, under the heading 

 of " Introduced Species," there can be no doubt whatever of their 

 being importations. The first Cerainbij.v /u'ros, Scop., is a large, shining 

 brown insect, with large spines to the thorax. It was taken at Colney 

 Hatch by the late Mr. E. W. Janson, who dug a dead specimen out of 

 a hornbeam. It is recorded from Deal and Portsmouth Dockyard. 

 Ceramhyx ccrdo, L., is a similar insect in appearance, but smaller and 

 narrower. It is recorded from Deptford and the Isle of Ely. 



Spry and Shuckard, in their " British Beetles Delineated," figure 

 the following seven Longicornes, which are undoubtedly foreign, and 

 introduced, but have been picked up in England: — Purjiuricens koelderi, 

 from near London; Ebuvia qiiadriniandata, in Essex; ElapJiidion 

 sjdnicurnc, at Bermondsey ; Tetraopcs toniatoi; from amongst timber 

 (a North American insect) ; Ci/lindcra lutcus^ from amongst timber ; 

 rcnichroa fasciata, in abundance at Norwich; and /liJiojialus fidniinans 

 at Kensington (another North American species). In the Stephensian 

 collection in the British IMuscum are specimens of numbers five and six 

 of the above, as also the following foreign Longicornes : — Ch/tufi vpxihm, 

 C. 4i-inLnctatu^, ('alliditini russicum, and I'ac/n/ta lamed. In the Knto- 

 wolomsCs Anmud for 1874, the late Mr. Eye records the capture of 

 Chjtus erythrocephalua, a North American species, at Middleton, and 

 MdiKivhavirnvfi drntntor, another North American species, from the Man- 

 chester district. He afterwards quotes some remarks which go to show 

 how easily foreign Longicornes may be introduced into this country. 

 In the !-ame Annual he mentions the fact that he found a specimen of 



