This fine genus contains about forty named extra-european 

 species, some of which are ranked amongst the most beautiful 

 of the Coleoptera: there are also seven or eight species in- 

 habiting Europe, two of which only have been detected in 

 Britain, viz: 



1. L. Textor Linn. — Tanz. 19. 1. — Samouelle' s Ent. Comp. 



pi. 2./ 24. 

 This species has nothing to recommend it but its size and 

 rarity; it has occurred near Bristol and at Lymington in 

 Hampshire, upon the trunks of willow trees in June. 



2. L. nubila Gmel. 



We are not aware that any figure has been given of this 

 rare and beautiful insect by any of our English authors : and 

 the representations of it in Olivier and Schaeffer by no means 

 do it justice, in consequence of their being drawn from dead 

 specimens, the insect fading soon after it is deprived of life. 

 Through the politeness of Mr. Raddon, we are enabled to 

 give a portrait from a living specimen, that gentleman having 

 received two in April last from Bewdley near Worcester ; it 

 has been taken also at Coombe Wood in June upon the trunks 

 of trees, and we think also at Darent. 



The CerambycidcB in the larva state do incredible mischief to 

 timber : and we cannot conclude this paper without referring 

 our readers to the 1 3th volume of the Linnean Transactions 

 for the natural history of L. amputator Fab., accompanied by 

 figures of the egg^ larva, pupa and imago of that insect, com- 

 municated by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding from the Island 

 of St. Vincent. 



Orobns hiberosus (Heath or Wood-pea) is figured in the 

 plate. 



