Plate XXVII. 

 Fig. *233. CLYTUS QUADRIPUNCTATUS, F., Curt. \_F. Cerambycidse. G. Clytus, F.] 



Elongate, convex, black, tbickly clotbed with a greenish yellow pile, each elytron with ftnir 

 black spots. Head punctate; forehead with central furrow; antennas scarcely half the length 

 of the body. Thorax oblong, narrowed and margined in front; sides faintly rounded. Elytra 

 wider than the thorax, narrowed from base to apex, which is truncate and armed externally with a 

 minute spine; each with four denuded black spots, the 1st and 2d disposed transversely at the 

 base; the other two on the disc. Underside and legs covered with greyish pile. Length, 5-5 1 lines. 



" Found upon a window in Norwich." Probably imported in timber, and not truly indigenous. 



Pig. 234. MESOSA NUBILA, Oliv. [F. Lamiidje. G. Mesosa, Serv^, (Lamia nubila, C.) 



Oblong, convex, black, variegated with ochreous and grey pubescence, and strewn with shining 

 black punctures. Head as wide as the thorax in front, triangularly impressed between the antennaj 

 with a fine deep line down the middle, and four black stripes on the vertex; antennas longer than 

 the body, slender, brown, each joint with a belt of grey pile at the base, and fringed beneath with 

 fine long grey hairs. Thorax transverse, narrowed and finely margined in front, rounded at the 

 sides; base margined; the disc with four black stripes. Elytra wider than the thorax; each 

 with an oblique patch of grey pubescence on the outer margin a little before the middle, 

 bordered before and behind with a more or less interrupted zigzag black band, the disc with 

 three indistinct ridges. Underside covered with a dense grey pile. Legs variegated with yellow 

 and black; tarsi black. Length, 4.1-6 lines. On oaks and willows in the south. 



Fig, 235. NECYDALIS MINOE, L. \F. Lepturidse. G. Necydalis, L. (Molorchus 

 minor, Curtis.) 



Elongate, pitchy black, with a fine erect grey pubescence; mouth, antenna>, elytra, and legs 

 reddish brown. Head as wide as the thorax, thickly punctate; antenna; setaceous, half as long 

 again as the body, 12-jointed in the males, shorter and 11-jointed in the females. Thorax elon- 

 gate; apex and base with the margin reflexed; sides obtusely tuberculated behind the middle; 

 thickly punctate; with a depression "in the middle behind, inclosing a small raised glabrous space, 

 and having on either side a small oblong prominence. Scutellum triangular, thickly clothed with a 

 silvery grey pubescence. Elytra wider and about one-fourth longer than the thorax, sparsely 

 and rather coarsely punctate ; each with a furrow within the humeral Cfillus extending obliquely 

 to the suture, and a small oblique, raised, yellowish white, smooth line in the middle, near the 

 apex. Wings extending beyond the apex of the abdomen; pale brown, slightly iridescent. 

 Length, 3-5 lines. Rare: in old hedges, and on flowers. 



Fig. 236. SAPERDA TREMUL^, F. \F. Lamiidse. G. Saperda, F.] (S. Atkinsonii, C.) 



Elongate, black, with a short, dense, greenish yellow pile. Head nearly as wide as thorax, 

 convex, with a slender central line; antennje setaceous, as long or a trifle longer than the body, 

 bback with greenish ashy pile, and fringed beneath with fine grey hairs. Thorax cylindrical, nar- 

 rowly margined at the base, with a fine central channel. Elytra wider than the thorax; each with 

 a row of four velvety black spots, one or more of which are occasionally wanting, on the disc. 

 Legs covered with a greenish pile, intennixed with fine grey hairs. Length, 6-7 lines. The only 

 exam]ile recorded as British was taken in a garden at Grove End. 



Fig. 237. MONOHAMMUS SARTOR, F. Curt. [F. Lamiidaj. G. Monohammus.] 



Elongate, brownish black, with a brassy tint, and a sparse yellow pubescence, shining. Head 

 rugulose-jiunctate, with an impressed transverse line in front, and a central channel between the 

 antenn.T ; p.ntennae slender, nearly twice the length of the body in the males, and about half as long 

 again as the body in the females, black at the base, brownish towards the apex. Thorax trans- 

 verse, sides armed with a large spine, tr.ansversely wrinkled in front and behind, the disc thickly 

 and coarsely punctate, the anterior and posterior margins with a fringe of golden yellow hairs. 

 Scutellum densely clothed with pale yellow pubescence. Elytra coarsely rugulose-punctate at the 



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