Aromt',1.] LONOicor.NiA. 221 



A. moschata, L. (rosarum, Luc.). A large and fine species, which 

 may be at once recognized by its large size, bright metallic-green colour, 

 and the strong spine on each side of the thorax ; the colour is sometimes 

 more or less coppery or bluish ; head narrower than thorax, rugosely 

 punctured; thorax transverse, uneven, inure or less rugosely punctured, 

 with the disc sometimes almost smooth or sparingly punctured in the female; 

 elytra dull, closely and rugosely punctured, bluntly rounded at apex, 

 with obsoletely raised lines ; legs metallic, elongate, with posterior tibiae 

 slightly curved. L. 20-30 mm. 



Male with the antennae one and a half times as long as the body, and 

 the thorax rugosely punctured throughout ; fifth ventral segment truncate 

 at apex. 



Female with the antennae a little shorter than the body, and the disc 

 of thorax smooth or diffusely punctured ; fifth ventral segment rounded 

 and produced at apex. 



In decaying willows ; rather local, hut not uncommon and generally distributed 

 throughout the greater part of England and Wales ; London district common ; 

 Hertford; Eton; Ely; Dover; Southsea; Devon; Somerset; Tewkeshnry ; 

 Kveshnm ; Swansea ; near B irmouth ; Repton (osier beds) ; common near York ; 

 M-mchoster and Liverpool districts; Keswick; Northumberland district, rare; 

 Scotland, rare, Solway and Forth districts; Ireland, near Belfast; it occurs in 

 many other totalities, and is probably very generally distributed from Yorkshire 

 southwards. 



ASEMT7M, Eschscholtz. 



This genus contains ten species, which are found in Europe, Siberia 

 and the Amur district, and North America; the single British species is 

 a broad and robust insect with comparatively short antennae and tho 

 femora not clavate ; it has occurred locally iu Scotland in stumps of 

 Scotch fir, but has not been found in England or Ireland ; the larva is 

 described by Chapuis and Candcze (Larves des Colcopteres, p. 244) and 

 by Schiodte (Pars ix. 401) ; it does not present any particular pecu- 

 liarity, except that the prothorax is smaller than in the other species of 

 tin; Ccrambycina. 



A. striatum, L. Oblong, somewhat depressed, black, rather dull, 

 clothed with thick but very fine pubescence, and finely and thickly 

 sculptured ; head much narrower tlian thorax, forehead with a triangular 

 impression, antennae rather short and robust ; thorax transverse, with 

 sides rather strongly rounded, uneven on disc ; elytra with about six 

 raised lines on each, of which the alternate ones are less raised ; legs 

 black, comparatively short, tarsi pitchy. L. 10-16 mm. 



Male with the fifth ventral segment transverse, broadly rounded at 

 apex ; in the female the same segment is not transverse and somewhat 

 produced at apex. 



In stamps of Scotch fir; local; Scotland, Solway, Forth, Tay, Dee, and Moray 



dUtiicta. 



