368 MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



The family is divisible into two subfamilies, Cerambycides and 

 Lamiides. In the first the head is porrected, or but slightly de- 

 flexed, and the palpi are terminated by a joint more or less dilated 

 and truncate at the extremity {jig- 44.. 12. 13. maxilla and labium of 

 Aromia moschata) ; whilst in the second the head is vertical i^fiQ' 

 43. 15. Saperda oculata ; 43. 16. its head sidewise), and the palpi 

 filiform, or terminated by an ovate joint, pointed at the tip {Jig- 44. 

 1.2. maxilla and labium of Saperda Carcharias). The genera Cal- 

 lidium and Molorchus {fig- 44. 14. Molorchus minor) seem also to 

 possess characters of sufficient rank to form subfamilies. 



There are about forty British species of these insects (exclusive of 

 those imported and doubtful), constituting the genera described 

 in my Synopsis, and which are arranged according to the distribution 

 of M. Serviile ; those preceding ^dilis belonging to the Cerambycides, 

 and the remainder to the Lamiides. 



Amongst the exotic genera may especially be mentioned the Bra- 

 zilian Phcjenicocerus Latreille, having beautiful flabellate antenna;. The 

 African G. Sternotomis Perch. {Gen. des Ins. Col. pi. 16.), is composed 

 of several brilliant species, including Lamia pulchra, regalis, imperi- 

 alis, &c. I have described a very splendid species belonging to this 

 group in the first volume of the Trans. Ent. Soc., under the name of 

 Lamia Norrisii. Macropus T/mnberg, has for its type the gigantic, 

 long-legged, Brazilian Harlequin beetle (Cerambyx longimanus Linn.). 

 The G. Gnoma has the thorax very long, and forming a slender neck, 

 M^hence the type has received the name of Giraffa. I have figured a fine 

 New Holland species of this rare genus in Griffith's Animal Kingdom. 

 Mr. Newman has described a curious genus from New Holland (Tri- 

 cheops ephippiger), which receives its generic name from the singu- 

 lar trifid form of the eyes. {Ent. Mag. No. xxii. p. 171.) The New 

 Holland G. Enicodes of G. R. Gray, founded upon the Cerambyx 

 Fichtelii Schreiber {Linn, Trans, vol. iii., refigured, with details, in 

 Griffith's Animal Kingdom), has the head laterally produced, and the 

 elytra much longer than the abdomen, and attenuated ; and in the 

 Brazilian genus Tapeina Serv. and Saint Farg. (Eurycephalus G. 

 R. Gray in Griff. An. Kingd.), the head is still more prominently 

 produced at the sides ; the antennae being inserted near the ex- 

 tremity of the produced portion ; the elytra are short and rounded, 

 and the insects of small size. But the smallest known species of the 

 family is the Decarthria Stephensii Hope { Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. i. 



