lOOS FAMILY LII. OERAMBYCID/E. 



flattened, with only the thorax cylinclrieal. All agree in having 

 the antennie very long, these organs heing ^^'ith few exceptions much 

 longer than the head and thorax and often longer than the entire 

 body. ITowe-vcr, in but one genus {J'l^onii.'^) are they more than 11- 

 jointcd, the gi-eat length of the individual joints causing the in- 

 crease in length of the. organ. The faniil.N' name is from the generic 

 name (Ur(nnhy.r fiivcn l)y Linnanis, wbich is from the Greek and 

 means "a beetle and horn," and the Latin word Ldiigironics, often 

 given to the famil5^ means also "long-horns." 



The color is variable, often very handsome, and the beetles are 

 therefore great favorites among collectors. They are usually strong 

 fliers and swift runners ; but many of them have the habit of re- 

 maining motionless, ms if dazed, upon the trunks or limbs of trees 

 and can then be rendily picked up by the fingers. When so caught 

 they generallj^ vent their anger by making a peculiar squeaking or 

 striduh'ting noise liy I'apidly moving the pro- upon the meso-thorax. 

 Many species of the family may be taken by carefully ))eating 

 branches (especially if partially dead") and flowers, over a sheet or 

 an umbrella. Dead logs should l)e searched, on both the upper and 

 under surfaces, and particularly freshly cut timber or sawed lum- 

 ber. A morning .spent in a woodyai-d will often repay one richly 

 in rare specimens. Some are to lie found commonly under bark and 

 may be trapped by loosely fastening pieces of bark to a tree over 

 night and examining the under side of the bark in the morning. 

 A great number fly to lights after dusk. Dead twigs and branches 

 may be sawed or cut off, preferably during the autumn months, and 

 kept in large boxes or in an empty room until the beetles are dis- 

 closed through the d(n-clopment of the larvn? contained therein. 



The principal characters of the Cci-amliycidu', briefly stated, arc 

 as follows: Lal)ial iialpi three-jointed; maxilhc with two lobes, 

 clothed at the tip with bristles ; mandibles usually curved and acute 

 at tip, sometimes, though rarely, very long; eyes usually transverse, 

 frequently dee])ly eiiiarginate or even entirely divided; antenna^ 

 inserted either in front of or between the eyes, often borne on large 

 frontal tubercles, their sensitive siirfa es dittVring in the tribes; 

 thorax not margin.^l except in the (irst subfamily; elytra usuallv 

 with distinct cpipleura- and cov(>ring the abdomen, the latter with 

 five free ^'entral segni(-nts, the sixth ^isible in many males and occa- 

 sionally in both sexes; legs usually slender, hind coxa^ transverse; 

 tarsi apparently +-joint<ul, joints one to three furnished ben,>ath 



