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LONOICORNIA.- 



-INSECTS.- 



-Bkenthid.e. 



hues so elegantly I Tlien, again, the charming yellow 

 and red Anisocerus dukissimus* found by Bates, is a 

 txuly exquisite insect — Plate 3, fig. 8. The Australian 

 Teloccra Wollastoni — Plate 3, fig. 4 — is curious from 

 the antennje being dilated at the end. It was named 

 by the writer after Thomas Vernon Wollaston, Esq. 

 Pascoea Idee — Plate 3, fig. 5 — with its strange spined 

 cheeks, was named generically after F. Pascoe, Esq. ; 

 the specific name is after Madame Ida Pfeiffer. It 

 belongs to the group Tmesisternus and Coptomma, a 

 New Guinea, New Zealand, and East Indian Archipelago 

 set of Longicorns. Plate 3, fig. 6 is a curious Longi- 

 corn from Lord Howe's Island, which at first I named 

 Deucalion Wollastoni. I subsequently constituted a 

 genus Pyrrlia for it. 



Many of the larvs of Longicorn beetles are eaten by 

 the less civilized races of man. Even the Eomans are 

 believed to have used the large 

 juicy grubs of Prionus cori- 

 arivs, Hamalicherus heros, and 

 perhaps other species of Longi- 

 corn beetles, and included them 

 under the name of Cossus.f 



The larvse of Stenodontes 

 damicornis, a large blackish 

 brown prionidous beetle, com- 

 mon in the West Indies and in 

 some parts of South America, 

 are eaten both by wliite and 

 black people. The Montac, the grub of a Longicorn, 

 is found in the Mauritius, and, according to St. Pierre, 



a South Ameiican insect living on the sap of the Bom- 

 bax, is used as food In Cayenne the Tilanus gigan- 

 teus, one of the largest of beetles, has become rare 

 from the eagerness, so I have heard, with which the 

 negroes and natives search for its fine large sapid grub. 



The Parandrid.?! are South American depressed, 

 pentamerous, short-horned Longicorns. 



The Tbictenotomid^ are Eastern Longicorns, with 

 heteromerous tarsi and curious antennse, somewhat like 

 those of Lucanus. Mr. George Robert Gray named 

 the genus, and very briefly described its first species 

 {T. Childreni). 



Family— BRENTHID^. 



I believe the Brenthid^, generally placed with the 

 Rhynchophora, to come here. Two curious forms are 



Fig. 130. 



Fig. I2S. 



Fig. 129. 



Diurnis furcillatua. 



Taphroderes McUii. 



is dressed and eaten by the white colonists, as well as 

 the negroes. The larva of the Macrodontia cervicornis, 



* Hope, Tran. Ent. Soc, vol. iii. p. 133. 

 t See White's Catalogue of Longicorns in British Museum 

 coUt'ctioD. 



Profile of Hypocephaltis, 



figured here. Fig. MS Te^pTesents Diurnis furcillatus, 

 and fig. 129 Taphroderes Mellii. The Brentus Tera- 

 minckii of Java is the most gigantic of the tribe. 



Fig. 131. 



Under side of Hypocephalus. 



The very curious Hypocephalus, of which I have seen 

 but one specimen, that in the collection of J. Aspinal 



