CHAP. Cv. CORYLA‘CEE. QUE’RCUS. 1817 
at intervals; whilst these kinds of insect foods, abounding with a very rich 
and delicious oil, are, consequently,the most wholesome and nutritious which 
men in the situation above described could possibly procure; requiring no 
other preparation than roasting in any manner.” (Drury Introd., vol. iii.) 
Of these longicorn beetlés, several British species inhabit the oak, especially 
Pridnus coriarius, which is the largest species found in this country, and of 
which the larva is not much smaller than that of the Céssus. The body is long, 
fleshy, and of a pale whitish colour; the head is rather small and flat; the 
anterior segments of the body the broadest, the remainder becoming gradually 
narrower to the tail; the legs are very minute; the body is not bent in the 
same manner as that of the larva of Lucanus. Clytus arcuatus and Leptira 
scutellata are also found upon the oak, as well as several species of the coleop- 
terous families Elatérid and Tillide, including Aplotarsus quércus and Eater 
