1912. 101 



miicli uarrower head and more elongate antenna?, these organs being 

 relatively long and slender, with the terminal joint forming an abrupt 

 club. 



Mr. Donisthorpe kindly informs me that the usual host of C. 

 longicornis on the Continent is Lasius iimbrahis, Nyl., and that teste 

 Schmitz (Zeitschr. fur wissenschaft-Iusektenbiologie, 1908, Heft III, 

 pp. 84-87) it is found most freely in April in nests of this ant imder 

 large and deeply embedded stones. I may add that a recent visit to 

 the place of capture of the insect, under not very favourable conditions, 

 failed to produce further specimens. 



It is a singular coincidence that both our species of Claviger have 

 been first found quite close to Oxford, as the original British specimen 

 of C. testaceus, now in the Oxford University Museum, was taken by 

 the late Professor J. 0. Westwood in Wychwood Forest, Oxon, on 

 August 30th, 1838 (c/. Shipp. Ent Mo. Mag., Vol. XXIX, p. 144). 



Aorangi, Lonsdale Road, 



Siunmertown, Oxford: 

 April 13th, 1912. 



THE NAMES USED FOR OUR BRITISH CEBAMBYCID^ IN THE 



" COLEOPTERORUM CATALOGUS." 



BY PROF. T. HUDSON BEARE, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., P.E.S. 



The 39th part of this catalogue, just issued, is a bulky volume 

 extending to 574 pages ; it deals with the family Gerambycidse, sub- 

 family Cerambycirice, and is the work of Dr. Chas. Aurivillius. As 

 many important changes are made in synonymy, and as almost all of 

 these changes had already been adopted in the last European Cata- 

 logue of Heyden, Eeitter and Weise (1906), it seems desirable to 

 call the attention of British Coleopterists to these alterations. 



M. Aurivillius divides the sub-family into 94 tribes, of which 10 

 are represented in our fauna ; the following is a summary of the 

 changes made in generic or specific names : 



(1). Criocephalus polonicus, Mots., is called C. ferus, Muls. : this is in 

 disagreement from the Eiu-opean Catalogue. 



(2). The two reputed British species of Ceramhyx become now : 



C. cerdo, L. = heros, Scop. 



C. scopolii, Fiissl. = cerdo, Scop. 

 (3). Two of our three species of Rhagium change names: 



R. niordax, de G. = our inquisitor. 



R. inquisitor, L. ^= oiu' indagator. 



