Mr. A. AVhitc on a new species of Lonyicorn Beetle. Ill 



the first examination I found niyst;lf rather doubtful wliethcr the 

 P. Cacicus was not the same species. The following is the de- 

 scrijjtion of M. Fries : Psalidognathus {Prionacalus) modestus; la- 

 bium short, bitid. 



]\I. Fries had only seen two specimens, a male and female ; the 

 former, from being very small, he imagines nuist be a very dimi- 

 nutive example of the sex, while he judges that the female must 

 be amongst the largest individuals of the species. In the male the 

 head is smaller than the thorax, with a little pointed spine on 

 both sides, and a sort of hook where the mandibles are attached. 



IMandiblcs are as long as the head, resembling those of the 

 female of Psalidognathus superhus; in the middle of the thorax 

 there is an excavation ; the elytra have hardly any trace of the 

 reticulated and elevated lines ; the humeral hook is very small ; 

 the wings together are as long as the body. 



In the female the ridge of the head is less marked and ends in 

 a raised point ; tlie appendages on side of head are very short 

 and tine ; the mantlibles as in the male ; labrum at tip bent in 

 the same as the i)receding (?) ; elytra more thick and firm, 

 without raised lines, deeply pitted and granular ; there are no 

 wings. 



M. Nisser found this very distinct species at Antiochia in 

 Columbia, and dejiosited the male and female in the Academy 

 Museum. 



Jan. 16, 1845. 



On the same plate are figured two Coleoptera from Xanthus in 

 Asia j\Iinor, found by Charles Fellows, Esq., and now in the 

 Museum collection. In a subsequent number of the ' Annals ' 

 descriptions of these \nll be given. The smooth Carabus with 

 thick legs and dilated thorax was found close to the " Horse 

 Tomb'^ as it has been called, but now moi-e properly denominated 

 the " Winged Chariot Tomb ;" it was the monument of Paiafa, 

 one of the satraps of Lycia : I have named it Carabus [Procrus- 

 ticus) Paiafa. There are characters that would separate it from 

 both Carabas and Procrustes. The longicorn may be an extreme 

 variety of Cerambyx Koehleri, L. Syst. Nat. 393. 31, between 

 which andC.Desfontai7iii, Fabr. S. E. 274. 37. (Oliv. t. 23. f. 183), 

 it seems to come. As a small com])limeut to the distinguished tra- 

 veller and archieologist who found it close to the " Hari)y Tomb," 

 as well as to mark his fondness for entomology in his youth, I 

 have named it Purpuricenus Fellowsii : it is very common on the 

 trees about Xanthus. — A. W. 



