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TAB. LVIII. 

 CERAMBYX fulminans. 



Class 5. Insecta. Order 1. Coleopteva, 



Gen. Char. AntenncF setaceous. Eijcf; lunar, cm- 

 bracing the base of the antennse. Thorax partly 

 receiving the head. Elytra sublinear. Body 

 oblong. 

 Spec. Char. Thorax globose, spotted. Elytra black, 



with undulato-angular white bands. 

 Syn. Callidium fulminans. Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. ii. 

 332. n. 62. 

 Cerambyx fulminans. Gmeh Syst. Nat. 1853. ??. 278, 



Oliv. Ins. 70. t. 5.f. 63. 

 Cerambyx fulminans. Tiirt. 2. 330. 

 Clytus fulminans. Fab. Syst. EleuiJi. ii. 346. n. 4^ 



Length of the Body 8 \ ,. 

 Breadth of the Elytra 2 J ^"^^^■ 



The specimen of this elegant insect (which Fabricius 

 gives as a native of North America) from wbicli our 

 figure was taken, was found by a young lady upon some 

 flowers at a garden at Kensington. It is now in tbe 

 cabinet of the Rev. W. Kirby. Probably, like Ccramlijx 

 violaccus, it was not orio;inally a native of this country, 

 but imported in its larva state in timber. We remember 

 seeing at A. MacLeay's, Esq., a very large larva of some 

 species, of this genus we imagine, which came alive in 

 timber from New Holland. 



The insect before us belongs to Mr. Marsham's fillh 

 family of Ceramhyx, {Thorax unarmed, globose, not de- 

 pressed), consisting of species which Linne had improperly 

 considered as belonq-ins; to the eenus Lcpturo, since their 



