1008 FAMILY LTi. — cerambycid.t:. 



flattened, with only the thorax cylindrical. All agree in having 

 the antennie very long, these organs heing with few exceptions much 

 longer than the head and thorax and often longer than the entire 

 body. TFoweve]-. in ])ut one genus ( Prwiui.'^) are they more than 11- 

 jointcd, tlie gi-cat length of the individual joints causing the in- 

 crease in length of the organ. The family name is from the generic 

 nam(> Ct r(/iiih!i.r given hy Linnanis, whicli is from the Greek and 

 means "a. beetle and horn." and the Latin word Lougicorncs, often 

 given to the famil.y, means also "long-horns." 



The color is varial)le, often very handsome, and the beetles are 

 therefore great favorites among collectors. They are usually strong 

 fliers and swift runners; but many of them have the habit of re- 

 maining motionless, as if dazed, upon the trunks or limbs of trees 

 and can then be readily picked up by the fingers. When so caught 

 they generally vent their anger by making a peculiar squeaking or 

 stridulating noise l)y i-ajudly moving the pro- ui)on the meso-thorax. 

 ]\rany species of the family may be taken by carefully beating 

 In-anches (especially if jiartially dead) and flowers, over a sheet or 

 an umbrella. Dead logs should l)e searched, on both the upper and 

 under surfaces, and ]xirticularly freshly cut timber or sawed lum- 

 ber. A morning spent in a woodyard Avill often repay one richly 

 in rare specimens. Some are to be found commonly under bark and 

 may be trapped by loosely fastening pieces of bark to a tree over 

 night and examining the under side of the bark in the morning. 

 A great numlier fly to lights after dusk. Dead twigs and branches 

 may l)e sawed or cut off, preferably during the autunui months, and 

 kept in large boxes or in an empty room until the beetles are dis- 

 closed through the development of the larva^ contained therein. 



The principal chai-acters of the ('eram])ycida\ briefly stated, are 

 as follows: Labial palpi three-jointed; maxilhv with two lobes, 

 clothed at the tip witli bristles; mandililes usually curved and acute 

 at tip, sometimes, though rarely, very long; eyes usually transverse, 

 frequently deeply emarginate or even entirely divided; antenna^ 

 inserted either in front of or between the eyes, often borne on large 

 frontal tubercles, theii- sensitive surfa/es differing in the tribes; 

 thorax not margined except in the first subfamily; elytra usually 

 with distinct epipleurne and covering the abdomen, the latter with 

 five free ventral segments, th(^ sixth \'isible in many males and occa- 

 sionally in both sexes; legs usually slender, hind coxa^ transverse; 

 tarsi appaT^ently 1- jointed, joints one to three furnished beneath 



