CERAMBYCID^. — SAPERDA. 23*7 



Rare, at least near London, I have once taken it at Coombe ; 

 but it has been captured in abundance in " Bewdley-forest."— M?-. 

 Raddon. " Windsor." — Dr. Leach. " New Forest, June last." — 

 Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Genus CCCLXXV. — Saperda, Fabricius. 



Pa/pi terminated by a subfusiform joint, long and rather slender, subfiliform. 

 Antennae as long, or scarcely longer than the body, sometimes a little pilose, 

 12- or ll-jointed, the basal joint stout, not much elongate} the second 

 minute, nodose; third elongate 5 remainder diminishing in length to the end : 

 head deflexed vertically, flat in front, sometimes broader than the thorax, the 

 latter cylindric, unarmed : body cylindric, depressed on the back : elytra long, 

 linear, sometimes a little attenuated behind, the shoulders generally prominent: 

 legs moderate : tibice simple. 



This genus as it at present stands is decidedly an artificial one, 



Genus CCCLXXIV. — Tetraopes, Dalman. 



Palpi short, with the terminal joints subfusiform, truncate. Antennw scarcely 

 longer than the body, pilose, robust; the basal joint elongate j second abbre- 

 viated, subglobose ', third and fourth of equal length ; the remainder decreasing 

 in length to the end : head narrower than the middle of the thorax : eyes each 

 divided by the antennas into two, one anterior to and beneath the antennse, 

 the other superior and behind: thorax tubercular: elytra convex, broad, entire, 

 round : legs short : intermediate tibice somewhat emarginate towards the apex. 



Sp. 1. tornator. Nigro-cinerascens, capite, thorace elytrisque rubris nigra 



punctatis. (Long. corp. 6^ lin.) 

 La. tornator. Fabricius. — Wilkin. (! ) — Te. tornator. Steph. Catal. 413. No. 



2036*. 



Dusky-ash; head and thorax rufous, the latter with four black spots: elytra 

 also rufous, with a smaU spot at the shoulders, and two large oblique ones on 

 the back ashy-black: scutellum and legs black, base of the anterior aiid 

 posterior femora rufous : antennae fuscous. 



This North American insect has been more than once taken in England, and 

 is included in the list of the rare insects contained in Mr. Wilkin's late collection 

 drawn out by Mr. Curtis, although it is omitted in his Guide, which he pro- 

 fesses to have been framed from Mr. Wilkin's catalogue, while Clytus erythoce- 

 phalus, Stenocorus 4-maculatus, and other exotic species which have been but 

 ouce captured at large in this country, are enrolled in the list ! 



