CERAMBYClDiE. — CALLIDIUM. 24*7 



Pitchy-broiun, pubescent: thorax villose black, \v\\h two glabrous dorsal tu- 

 bercles: elytra finely shagreened, with some whitish hairs, and a somewhat 

 compact patch of the same in the middle, forming a more or less distinct 

 waved fascia : antenna- short, dull pitchy-ferruginous. 



The elytra are sometimes entirely of a pale testaceous. 



Frequent in the vicinity of old posts and rails in the metropolitan 

 district ; very injurious to the fir rafters of houses, as I have my- 

 self experienced. " Frostenden-hall, Suffolk."— P^F. C. Hezvitson, 

 Ei-q. " Epping.""— Jfr. Douhleday. 



Sp. 5. sanguineum. Latius, depressum, nigrum, thorace elytris ahdoviineque 

 apice sanguineis. (Long. corp. 3 — 5| lin.) 



Ce. sanguineus. Linne.—Don. :&M\.pl. 553. f l.—Cal. sanguineum. Steph. Catal 

 ■200. No. 2041. 



Broad, depressed, black : head channelled between the eyes, with some sangui- 

 neous hairs on the forehead : thorax with the lateral margins angulated, the 

 disc clothed with a longish depressed shining sanguineous pubescence, having 

 a somewhat naked dorsal Une : elytra pale, entirely and densely clothed with 

 a depressed sanguineous down : sides and apex of the abdomen also clothed 

 with sanguineous down : femora thick, clavate, black : tibiiae and tarsi piceous: 

 antennue pitchy-black. 



I possess a fine series of this insect, which was taken in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Exeter :— the insect has been captured in North Wales, 

 and also in London. 



Sp. 6. violaceum. Latius, depressum, supra violaceum, conferttm rugoso-puncta- 



tum, thorace postice angustiore. (Long. corp. 4—9 lin.) 

 Ce. violaceus. Linne.—Kirhy, Linn. Trans, v. 257. pi. 12. Cal. violaceum. 



Steph. Catal. 200. No. 2042. 



Broad, depressed, violaceous or purple, sometimes greenish or brassy, slightly 

 pilose: head small, with a faint frontal channel : thorax slightly pubescent, 

 narrowed behind, thickly rugulose-punctate : elytra shining, thickly and 

 coarsely punctured, with the apex rounded : abdomen pitchy-black : legs long, 

 stout, bluish: femora in one sex considerably clavate and the posterior elon- 

 gate. 



Rare: but occasionally found in great abundance within the 

 metropolitan district: it has been taken near Coombe-wood, and 

 Roehampton, in Surrey, and on Epping-forest, as well as in Nor- 

 folk, and near Manchester. " Lowestoft, Suffolk.' — W. C Hewlt- 

 .son, Esq. " Epping." — Mi; Douhleday. 



