ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



CALLIDIUM BAJULUM. Stephens. 



Callidium Bajulus. Fabr. 



Cerambyx Bajulus. LinnL 



Black and shining thorax, nearly round, depres- 

 sed and punctured, with two raised smooth tuber- 

 cles placed between the centre and the margins : 

 elytra black ; brown in some specimens, punctured 

 with two almost indistinct elevated lines on each 

 elytra ; about the centre a broken undulated fascia, 

 composed of a greyish hair ; the head, thorax and 

 elytra have partial hair of the same colour ; the ab- 

 domen is of a chesnut brown ; antennae and legs 

 black. Length from 7 to 10 lines. 



This insect bas in all probability been introduced 

 into this country originally from America, as we 

 have frequently received specimens from that country 

 agreeing completely with those found in England ; 

 and we have further to observe that the insect is 

 generally found in fir posts, palings, and oftentimes 

 we have met with them in the streets of London. 

 Some years since, when collecting in Battersea 

 Fields with Dr. Leach, he pointed out a post which 

 Sir Joseph Banks, when a young man, used to search 

 for this insect and often found them. On a late visit 

 to G, Carter, Esq. of Mottingham Lodge, Kent, he 

 informed us that the rafters of the house were in- 

 fested by an insect that eat through the leaden roof; 

 on describing the insect it proved to be this species, 

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