CERAMBYCID7E. MOLORCHUS. 251 



Very local, but at times found rather abundantly : I have taken 

 it at Ripley from under the bark of elms, and in Leigh-street, 

 crawling about the house : — it has been frequently taken, and that 

 in considerable numbers, in old shoes, apparently feeding upon the 

 leather, a fact mentioned in the Introduction to Entomology, and 

 confirmed by Mr. Waterhouse, who took numerous specimens in 

 that article near Old Brompton, as, I believe, Mr. Sparshall once 

 did near Dulvvich : — it has been taken in flour, having probably 

 eaten its way from the wooden casks in which the latter material 

 was contained. " Near Cambridge." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Very 

 abundant on the trellis- work of a garden-seat at Bristol." — G. War- 

 ing\ Esq. " Epping." — Mr. Doubleday. 



+ Sp. 2. cantharinum. Ilufo-fe7^rugineum,siihpubescens, antennis pedibusque suh- 



concoloribus , aid piceo-nigris. (Long. corp. 3 — 5|^ lin.) 

 Ca. cantharinus. Linne.—Oh. cantharinum. Curtis, ii. pi. 9\. ^ $. Steph. 



Catal. 199. No. 2039. 



" Male ochraceo-f errughieous, shining, pilose, head and thorax somewhat more 

 brilliant than the elytra, which are irregularly punctured : ei/es black : legs 

 brown, inclining to ferruginous : antennm brown, deepest towards their base. 

 Female twice or thrice the size of the male : head and thorax punctured : 

 antennce and legs black : two terminal joints of the tarsi rufous." — Curtis, I. a. 



Three specimens of this pretty species have been taken inEssex, 

 two of them on an apple-tree, near Epping, by Mr. Doubleday, 

 and a third by my late friend, Mr. Blunt. The insect has also 

 occurred near " Brighton." — Mr. Raddon. 



Genus CCCLXXX. — Molorchus, Fahricius. 



Palpi subfiliform, equal, the terminal joint stout, ovoid, truncate. Antennce 

 long, second joint minute, subglohose, the remaindering, cylindric, with the 

 apex a little thickened, terminal acute : head smooth, nutant: eyes lunate: 

 thorax elongate, tubercular, with the lateral margins produced in the middle : 

 elytra very short, gaping at the apex, which is rounded : body elongate, 

 narrow : wings exposed, covering the abdomen when at rest : femora elon- 

 gate^, very much clavate : tibicB slender, simple : tarsi short. 



The insects of this singular genus are readily known by their 

 long antennae and very much abbreviated elytra, these latter organs 

 not covering above a fourth of the base of the abdomen, and having 

 the wings almost entirely exposed ; the femora are very slender at 



