Mr. Westwood on a new Species of Longicorn Beetle. 119 
tharocnemis) into a subtribe, but with a remark that they “ne me 
paraissent pas bien évidemment étre 4 leur véritable place.” 
During the thirty years which have elapsed since the publication 
of Serville’s classification, other new genera have been established, 
more or less nearly allied to Spondylis, namely, Hypocephalus, Tor- 
neutes (Reiche, Trans. Ent. Lond. 1837, p. 9), Hrichsonia (Westw. 
ibid. v. p. 210), Thaumasus (Reiche, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1853, 
p- 419), Scaphinus (Leconte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xiii. 
p- 100), Anoploderma (Guérin, Revue Zool. 1840, p. 278), Sypilus 
(Guerin, ibid. p. 276), and Mysteria (Thomson, Essai d’une Classe 
des Cérambycides, p. 270). The knowledge of these genera, which 
comprise some of the most remarkable forms amongst Coleopterous 
insects, has appeared to necessitate a considerable modification in 
respect to the position of Spondylis as the type of a group in which 
they seem naturally to find a place, and amongst which, notwith- 
standing all the arguments of Mr. Thomson (op. cit. p. 262), I think 
Hypocephalus ought to be ranged. We accordingly find that Mr. J. L. 
Leconte, in his ‘Attempt to classify the Longicorn Coleoptera of North 
America,’ has removed the Spondylite from the Prionide, and placed 
them as one of the three subfamilies of a group composed of the 
Lepturite, Cerambycide, and Spondylite, conjointly equivalent in 
value to each of the Prionite and Lamiite, making Asemum and 
Criocephalus the connecting links between Callidium and Spondylis, 
whilst Mr. Thomson, in the work above alluded to, has cut up the 
Spondylite into five minor groups,—1. Spondylite vere, 2. Torneu- 
tite, 3. Erichsomte, 4. Canthorocnennte, and 5. Anoplodermite, con- 
sidering the margination of the sides of the prothorax as of primary 
importance (see pp. xv. and 129). The existence of this character, 
however, which occurs so generally amongst the Prionide alone, in 
Erichsonia, Sypilus, Cantharocnemis, and Anoploderma is, in my 
opinion, more confirmatory of the relation of these insects with the 
Prionide than with the Cerambycide, to which may be added the 
fact that the want of lobation in the third joint of the tarsi, which is 
so striking a character in Anoploderma, Sypilus, and the new genus 
described in this paper, exactly accords with its condition in Acanthi- 
nodera Cuming, whilst the dilated and dentated anterior tibia of 
Cantharocnemis are found also in the Prionus pilosicollis, Hope, from 
Australasia. 
It therefore cannot, I think, be doubted that the relationship of 
these insects is as strong towards the typical Prionide as it is to the 
Cerambycide ; whether, indeed, their general aberration from the 
Longicorn type will not sanction their location at the borders of the 
