CEKAMBYCIDiE. CALLIDIUM. 245 



Three specimens taken near Norwood about twenty years since : 

 from tlie Marsliamian collection. 



Genus CCCLXXVIII. — Callidium, Fabricius. 



Palpi short, subequal, with the terminal joint robust, obconic, truncate: maxillw 

 small. Antennce generally shorter than the body, subfiliform, rarely elongate 

 and pubescent; basal joint slightly robust; second subglobose; third slender 

 longest ; fourth shorter than the fifth ; the remainder decreasing in length 

 from the fifth, the last being subconic : head short : eyes\midA.e : thoi^ax trans- 

 verse, suborbicular, depressed, unarmed, sometimes longer than broad: body 

 sublinear, generally depressed : legs short : femora robust, clavate, especially 

 in the maks : tibise simple. 



Callidium is evidently very closely allied to Clytus, the last 

 species of which genus partakes almost as much of one genus as 

 the other, and the terminal species of Callidium are again allied 

 to Obrium — this genus may be distinguished in general by the 

 broad depressed form, with the transverse, frequently tuberculated, 



fSp. 8. erythrocephalus. Thorace subspinoso, elytris bidentatis fuscis, strigis 



quatuor Jlavis. 

 CI. erythrocephalus. Fabricius. —Curtis. (!)—Steph. Catal. 413. No. 2059.* 



note. 



Head, thorax and antennse dull ferruginous : thorax with several elevated acute 



dorsal tubercles : elytra black, with four straight yellow strigje, the apex bi- 



dentate: legs ferruginous, with the femora clavate, compressed. 



" Mr. Sparshall's cabinet contains a single specimen of this insect, taken alive 



a few years since in Epping-forest, by Mr. J)o\x\Ae(\diy."— Curtis, fo. 199 :— but 



the insect being a native of Georgia, is not likely to be indigenous. 



:|:Sp. 9. fulminans. Thorace globoso maculato, elytris nigris, fasciis undato- 

 angulatis albis. (Long. corp. 6 — 7 lin.) 



CI, fulminans. Fabricius.— Staph. Catal. 413. No. 2055.* note.— Cer. ful- 

 minans. Sowerby, B. M. i. pi. 58. 



Antennse short, cinereous : thorax cinereous, with three black spots, the inter- 

 mediate largest : scutellum black, with the margin cinereous : body fuscous : 

 elytra black, with angulated waved white fascise. 

 A specimen of this insect was caught " by a young lady upon some flowers in 



a garden at 'Kexinin^ton"— Sowerby, I. c— but it is a North American species, 



and was evidently introduced, most probably in some of the timber used in the 



construction of the houses of that neighbourhood. 



