236 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



La. Textor. Fahricius.—Samouelle, pi. 2.f. 24. — Steph. Catal. 1 98. No. 2028. 



Entirely of an opaque black : thorax with a stout acute spine on each side, the 

 disc thickly rugulose : elytra convex, coarsely granulated, the granules a little 

 glossy : legs and antennae stout, the latter short. 



This large and conspicuous insect has been met with abundantly 

 in some of the western counties of England ; it frequents old 

 decaying willows : I have received several specimens from Hamp- 

 shire, and from the vicinity of Bath. " Bristol." — G. Waring^ Esq. 



Genus CCCLXXIII. — Aplocnemia * miJii. 



Palpi slender, with the terminal joint subfusiform, of the maxillary subacute. 

 AntennoE pilose within, as long, or longer than the body ; the basal joint stout, 

 the second minute, third longer than the fourth, the remainder gradually 

 shortening to the apex, the terminal joint being shortest: head short: thorax 

 transverse, its lateral margins unarmed : body slightly convex, much broader 

 than high : elytra convex, punctured, variegated, rounded at the apex : legs 

 short, stout : tibice simple. 



The characters which are said to separate Monochamus from 

 Lamia are still more evident between the present genus and Lamia, 

 notwithstanding which, in a recent illustration of the latter genus 

 referred to below, Aplocnemia is included therewith, and has not 

 hitherto been divided therefrom, nor has any hint of its diversity been 

 given, excepting in my Catalogue ; but it is clear, that if the other 

 subordinate genera of the Cerambycidse are to be elevated to a 

 distinct rank, the present has equally just claims ; — from Lamia it 

 not only differs by having the antennae slender and elongate (dis- 

 similar as to length in the sexes) the thorax unarmed at the sides, 

 the intermediate tibiae simple, the body determinately broader than 

 high, and variegated, but the form and proportions of the palpi are 

 slightly different. 



Sp. 1. nubila. Nigroferrugineoque varia, elytris punctatis, viaculd marginali 



cinered. (Long. corp. 4— 65 lin.) 

 Cer. nubilus. Olivier.~La. nubila. Curtis, iv. pi. 172. Steph. Catal. 198. ]Vo. 



2027. 

 Varied with black and ferruginous: thorax ferruginous, with black streaks : elytra 



punctate, varied with brown shades, and a large ashy patch on the middle 



of the outer margin : antennae and legs black, annulated with ferruginous. 



* a-TeXoos, simplex ; x.inf*.i-, tibia. 



