NO. 5 CURTIS' BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY — BLACKWELDER II 



11. 



NECYDALIS MINOR. 



Order Coleoptera. Fam. Cerambycidse. 



Type of the Genus, Necydalis Umbellatarum Linn. 



Necydalis Linn., Oliv., Mars., Lat. — Molorchus Fab., Gyl., Curt. — 

 Gymnopterion Schr. ? 



Antenna; inserted in a notch in the eyes on each side the crown of the 

 head, slightly setaceous, pubescent and having a few hairs beneath ex- 

 cept towards the apex, 12-jointed and much longer than the insect ia 

 the male, basal joint short and stout, 2nd globose, 3rd and 4th not 

 longer than the 1st, 5th and following long and clavate, the apical 

 joint short and curved : 11 -jointed and much shorter in the female. 

 Labrum very minute, hairy and dilated very much in front and some- 

 what cordiform (1). 



Mandibles short, trigonate, slightly hooked and pointed at the apex (2). 

 Masithc small, terminated by 2 lobes regularly ciliated at the apex, 

 external one the largest (3 a). 



Palpi short subtiliform and 4-jointcd, 3 first joints short, 4th thicker 

 ovate, compressed and truncated at the apex (Jb). 

 Mentum broad, convex at the sides, emarginate before (4 a). Labium 

 coriaceous cordate, forming two divaricating pubescent lobes (i). Palpi 

 rearly as long as the maxillary and of the same form, triarticulate, at- 

 tached to scai)es at the base of the labium (c). 

 Head suborbicular, sloped off in front : eyes lateral with a deep notch for the 

 antennce. Thorax orbicular quadrate with the anterior angles and margin 

 a little reflected, and the base suddenly narrowed : scutellum elongate-tri- 

 angular. Elytra quadrate or oblong, not half the length of the body, flat 

 above, gaping behind, the apex of each being rounded. Wings very ample, 

 folded on the back when at rest, and extending nearly to the apex of the 

 Abdomen which is linear, concave above, convex beneath. Legs, anterior 

 short, posterior long. Thighs very slender, terminated by an ovate club : 

 tibiae simple tcith small spurs at the apex : tarsi 4 -jointed, basal joint con- 

 siderably the longest, except in the anteridr pair, Srd bilobed, 4th clavate : 

 claws curved and acute (5, afore leg). 



Minor Linn. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 412. 1. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



My lamented friend Latreille is the only naturalist of late who lias 

 done Linnaeus the justice to retain the appellation he gave to the 

 present group. In the first edition of this Work, I observed that 

 the genus Necydalis of Latreille ought probably to form two ge- 

 nera : I had therefore adopted Fabricius's generic name for the 

 species with short elytra, and those with longer and subulated ely- 

 tra {N. rufa Linn. &c., forming Latreille's second division,) might 

 retain the appellation of Necydalis; but since finding that this 



Fig. 4. — Facsimile of -page from second edition. 



