118 ORDER COLEOPTERA. 



Drury gives a long account of the grubs of this family : he states that they, together 

 with several other wood-eaters, constitute a delicate eating ; and that in the torrid zone, 

 a man may supply himself with animal food of this description, provided he has a knife 

 or other cutting tool strong enough to penetrate the decaying trees. 



Ccrambycidge. 



AtrrtirsjE slender, tapering and pointed, often elongated ; eyes kidney-shaped, the con- 

 cavity of which receives the base of the antennae ; thorax rounded and convex. 



Stenooorus CINCT08. ( Plate xxvi, fig. 2.) 



Gerambix balteatus (Degeer) ; 

 C. ciNCTus (Drury) ; 



StENOCHORUS GARGANICUS (Fab.). 



Color grayish hazle : surface covered with a short gray nap. Thorax armed in the middle 

 with a short spine : elytra ornamented with an oblique ochre-yellow bar near the 

 thorax. Extreme length IJ inch. Antenuse of the males more than twic« as long a« 

 the body : scutellum is triangular, and yellowish in color ; while the elytra are 

 margined, and tipped with two small spines. 

 This inhabits the hickory : its larvae form galleries in the trunk of the tree, which run 



parallel to the grain of the wood. 



CerambixI . ( Plate xxvi, fig. 9.) 



Color black. Antennae ten-jointed ; basal joint oval and short, tuberculated, tubercles 



minute ; last joint long, slender ; second joint nearly equal the last ; the remainder 



nearly equal in length. Head with a prominence over each eye and a prolongation at 



the base of each antenna, making upon the front a deep longitudinal groove. Thorax 



appears to be transversely rugose, cylindi-ical, without tubercles or spines, but rather 



thickened behind, dififering in that respect from the thorax of a Saperda, and slightly 



constricted near the elytra. Elytra thickly punctured, but scarcely confluent. The 



iower part of the tibiae and tarsi hairy, but confined to the forelegs ; the others being 



only slightly hairy, if at all. 



This insect would make a very good saperda, were it not for tlie extreme length of the 



antennae and the form and character of the basal joint. I am not entirely satisfied with its 



reference to the Genus Cerambix, still its characters do not materially disagree with those 



given by Mr. Westwood. Length rather more than ^ of an inch. 



