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Head clay-coloured. Antennae red brown, about as long as the insect, each joint having two spinps, 

 except that next the head. Thorax clay-coloured and cylindrical, without spines ; having a small red 

 brown streak extending along the middle and down the head. Scutellum triangular. Elytra clay- 

 coloured, with many small red brown streaks crossing them ; margined on the sides and suture, each 

 having two spines at its extremity. Abdomen and breast greyish clay-coloured, with a small red brown 

 spot on each side of each of the segments. Legs red brown, having a strong spine at the tip of each of 

 the femora, except the fore ones, and another at the tips of each of the tibiee. 



SAPERDA CARCHARIAS. 



Plate XLI. fig. 5. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Loiigicornes. Family: Lamiidse. 



Genus. Saperda, Fabr. Cerambyx p. Linn. 



Saperda Carcharias. Griseo-pubescens, nigro-punctata, antennis mediocribus griseo nigroque annulatis. 



(Long. Corp. 5.-8 lin.) 

 Sy N. Ceramb. Carcharias, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 631. 52. Fdbridm Syst. Eleuth. 2. 317.1. Oliv. Ent. i. 68. 



t. 2./. 22. Panzer F. I. G. 69. 1. Stepheiu III. Brit. Ent. Aland, vol. 4. 238. 



Habitat : Germany {Drury). " In Europje Sylvis" [Fabr.). 



Head dark clay-coloured. Antenna; clay-coloured, with black rings, and about the length of the insect 

 Thorax cylindrical and clay-coloured, without any spines or risings on it. Scutellum nearly square. 

 Elytra dark clay-coloured, and margined along the sides; when viewed through a microscope they 

 appear to be covered with a great number of small black pustules. Abdomen and breast clay-coloured ; 

 as are the legs, on each of which is a small spine at the tip of the tibiae. 



This fine insect has, within a fevir years, been found in considerable abundance in the 

 fenny districts of Cambridge and Huntingdonshire, upon low sallows. 



STENOCORUS ATOMARIUS. 



Plate XLI. fig. 6. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Longicornes. Family: Cerambycidse, ieae/j. 



Genus. Stenocorus, Fabr. Cerambyx p. Linn. 



Stenocorus Atomarius. Nigricans, sericie lutea indutus; thorace eylindrico uec tuberculato noc spinuso ; elytris 

 fusco einereoque variegatis. (Long. Corp. 8 lin.) 



Syn. Cerambyx atomarius, Drury, App. vol. 2. (nee De Geer, 5. p. 65. 4. nee Fabr. Syst. El. 2. 287. nee 

 O/to. 4.67.<. 9. 59. d.) 

 Stenochorus marylandicus? Fabr. Syst. Ent. 179. 5. Syst. Eleuth. 2. 306. 4. Oliv. Ent. 4. 70. t. l.f. 5. 



Habitat: New York. 



Head brownish black, covered with short yellowish grey pile. Thorax dirty black, covered with 

 yellow grey pile ; cylindrical, and without any spines or risings. Antennae dusky brown ; having a spine 

 on each joint, except that next the head, and about the length of the insect. Scutellum very small. 

 Elytra black, mottled with yellow grey ; being margined at the sides and suture, and not reaching or 

 covering the anus, each having two spines at the extremity. Abdomen and breast greyish brown, as are 

 the legs, each of which is furnished with a spine at the tip of the tibiae. 



