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claim to be regarded as Ccramhyccs is founded not only 

 upon oeconomy and habit, but likewise upon character^ 

 these insects exhibiting all the genuine characters of that 

 genus, pariicuhrly the lunar or reniform eyes, so happily 

 noticed by DeGeer, who arranges them with those Ceram- 

 lyces that have a globose depressed thorax, from which 

 Mr. Marshani has judiciously separated them. 



Fabricius originally considered this family as forming 

 part of liis genus CaUid'mm ; but in his Syslema Eleuthe- 

 ratorum, after Schrank, he has made a new genus of them, 

 under the name of Clytus. Latreille, however, a most 

 accurate observer, and who has entered more deeply into 

 the anatomy of insects than almost any entomologist of the 

 present age, still regards them merely as a family or section 

 of CaUidium. {Hist. Nat. Gen. et Part, des Crustac. et des 

 Lis. t. iii. p. 217.) 



The body of Ceranihjx fuhn'mans is black beset with 

 cinereous hairs, which underneath and upon the legs are 

 so thinly scattered as scarcely to obscure their blackness. 

 Head chanuciled longitudinally. Antennse of the length 

 of the body, at the base whitish with cinereous hairs. 

 Thorax with a large obcordate velvety black spot, and two 

 smaller oblong-oval lateral ones. Scutellum black edged 

 with cinereous hair. Elytra dehiscent at their apex, black, 

 pencilled with uudulato-angular cinereous transverse lines, 

 formed of hair. A cinereous crescent also ornaments their 

 tips. Wings black. 



The males in this genus have usually longer antennae 

 than the females; a circumstance which will account for a 

 difference observable betvi'een the description of Fabricius 

 and that above given. He says: " Antermce breves," 

 whereas in our specimen they are as long as the insect. 

 He also describes the body of his as fuscous : in ours it is 

 quite black. Notwithstanding these differences, we make 

 our reference to him without hesitation, since in every 

 other respect our specimen answers exactly to his descrip- 

 tion. 



