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lum rounded behind ; elytra broad, rugosely punctured, with obsolete 

 traces of raised lines, indistinctly mucronate at sutural angles ; legs 

 rather long and stout, femora and tibiae compressed. L. 25-38 mm. 



Male with the antennae distinctly 12-jointed, longer, more robust, 

 and more strongly serrate, abdomen pubescent, fifth segment depressed 

 and slightly emarginate at apex. 



Female with the antennae 11-jointed, the last joint being obsoletely 

 3-jointed, shorter and less strongly serrate, abdomen glabrous, fifth seg- 

 ment very slightly emarginate at apex. 



In decaying trees ; on fennel, &c. ; occasionally taken on the wing ; local, and as a rule 

 not common, but occasionally abundant ; Richmond Park, Oakland Park, Coombe 

 Wood, Sevenoak-s Ha>lemere, Belvedere, Tonbridge; Windsor Forest*; Loughton, 

 Essex; Colchester ; Cambridge; Hertford; Shipley, near Horsbam ; Hastings; Folke- 

 stone ; Arnudel, once in abundance in an old tree (S. Stevens) ; New Forest ; Devon 

 (not uncommon at the roots of old oaks in winter) ; Swansea ; Llangollen ; Aston, near 

 Birmingham; Cannock Chase ; Dunham Park and Stretford, near Manchester. The 

 Kev. C. 1. Cruttwell informs me that he found the species flying in swarms on a 

 Lot damp evening early in July, 1873, on the edges of Shotter Mill Wood, near 

 Hash-mere ; he did not see any flying on any other evening, but on that occasion 

 tlit-y were as numerous as cockchafers ia early summer. Mr. Parfit records the 

 capture of a female which contained 162 eggs, which filled the entire abdomen ; 

 _ r es are somewhat cylindrical, but taper slightly towards one end ; they are 

 ratlu-r thickly punctured all over with two sets of punctures, the interstices between 

 the larger being filled with minute punctures, the whole being smooth and somewhat 

 polished ; their length is from 3J to 4 mm. 



CERAMBYCID.E. 



This family contains a very large number of genera and species, which 

 are distinguished from the Prionidae by not having the thorax margined 

 or the prosternum produced behind the anterior coxae, and by the free 

 and distinct labrura ; from the Lamiidee they may be known by not 

 having the tibiae grooved on their inner side, and, as a rule, by having 

 the last joint of the palpi truncate and never acute at the tip; the family 

 is by some authors separated from the Lepturidse, but it seems the best 

 course to regard the Cerambycina and Lepturina as tribes of one family ; 

 by many authors the term Cerambycidae is applied to the whole group 

 of the Lougicornia. In the last European catalogue, lleyden, Reitter, and 

 Weise adopt this plan, and divide the group into two series, the Anau- 

 lacnemitae (containing the Parandrini, Sptjndylini, Prionini, Lejrfurini, 

 and Cerambycini) and the Metaulacnemitaj (containing the Lamiini) ; 

 this appears, however, to be only carrying the distinction of the grooved 

 tibiae a little further, and it is hardly worth while to upset the old 

 arrangement. The Cerambycidse, as arranged in this work, are repre- 

 sented in Europe by considerably more species than the Lamiidae ; the 

 two tribes may be distinguished as follows : the differences, however, 

 are not very striking in many cases : 



* Mr. J. C. Bowriug has taken several specimens this suniincr (1880) in this 

 locality, all of which "emerged from roots of oak trees running along the ground, 

 leaving holes like those of bees' nests." 



