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and less acute than in that species, thus making the head less broad 

 in front ; and the tubercle over the base of each mandible is wanting. 

 The thorax is rather less convex, and is without the two elevations at 

 the posterior part of the disc ; the sides are slightly more rounded, 

 especially toward the anterior angles. There is a small tooth in front 

 of the posterior angle, the angle itself being also furnished with a 

 small tooth. The elytra are (comparatively) depressed, with the 

 sides parallel, very little deflexed posteriorly, their whole surface 

 thickly and finely punctured, and with but very faint indications of 

 irregular wrinkles. The legs are longer and more slender than in 

 C. prionoides. The anterior tibiae are slightly dilated towards the 

 apex, with two large teeth on the outer side at the apex, above these 

 there are three or four minute teeth, the inner edge is also furnished 

 with two or three minute sharp teeth. The middle and posterior 

 tibiae are straight and slender, distinctly aeneous. The tarsi are 

 slender. Nearly the whole of the upper and under sides of the insect 

 and the legs are covered with long ashy pubescence. 



Hah. : Venezuela. 



Coll. Parry, from Count Mniszech. 



British Museum : August 23rd, 1873. 



Is Ceramhyx hews entitled to a place in the British list 1 — The above will 

 probably be answered in the negative by almost every English Coleopterist. I will 

 put another question— are Monohammus sartor and sutor both entitled to a similar 

 position ? Many will say, only the latter ; whilst others will reply, certainly both 

 of them. Among the latter will be foxmd some of those who pin their faith on the 

 decision of Dr. Sharp, whilst those of the former opinion will support the views 

 of Mr. Q-. E. Crotch ; both will be admitted as British insects by those who have 

 been fortunate in capturing both species, aiid also by those into whose possession 

 they have come upon undoubted authority. 



I will now put my question in a different form — was Ceranibyx heros ever a 

 British beetle ? Unfortunately, we possess no list of the Cerambt/cidce of the four- 

 teenth or fifteenth centuries, and are quite unable to decide the number of species 

 belonging to that family found in England in those days, when half the country was 

 forest land, and the Longicornia doubtless abounded, both in species and individuals. 

 On reference to De Marseul's Catalogue, which shows the known distribution of 

 European Coleoptera, I find that Ceranibyx heros is a native of France, Germany, 

 Austria, Italy, Sweden, and Britain ; the authority for the latter locality being no 

 doubt the late Mr. James F. Stephens, who undoubtedly considered it an indigenous 

 insect, since he gives it as one of those of which he says, " I only possess a foreign 

 example;" as localities, he gives Devonshire and Colney Hatch Wood. The late 

 Mr. Abel Ingpen possessed a specimen, which he assured me was captured at Colney 



