116 ORDER COLEOPTKRA. 



Pm k\ gives a long account of the. grubs of this family : he states thai they, together 

 with several other wood-eaters, constitute a delicate eating ; and that in the torrid zone, 

 a ninu may supplj himself with animal food of this description, provided he has a knife 



•r other cutting tool strong enough to penetrate the decaying trees. 



('( rambycidse, 



Antknn.t: slender, taperimr and pointed, often elongated j eyes kidney-shaped, the con- 

 cavity of which receives the base of the antenme ; thorax rounded and convex. 



Stexocoris cixctis. ( Plate xxvi, fig. 2.) 



Cerambix balteatus (Dcgcer) ; 

 C. • CINCTUS (Drury) ; 



Stexochorus GARGAX1CUS (Fall.). 



Color grayish hazle : surface covered with a short gray nap. Thorax aimed in the middle 

 with a short spine : elytra ornamented with an oblique ochre-yellow bar near the 

 thorax. Extreme length 1J inch. Antenna? of the males more than twice as long as 

 the body: seutelluni is triangular, and yellowish in color; while the elytra are 

 margined, and tipped with two small spines. 

 This inhabits the hickory : its larva? form galleries in the trunk of the tree, which run 



parallel to the grain of the wood. 



Cerambix ? . ( Plate xxvi, fig. 9.) 



Color black. Antenna? ten-jointed ; basal joint oval and short, tuberculated, tubercles 



minute ; last joint long, slender; second joint nearly equal the last ; the remainder 



nearly equal in length. Head with a prominence over each eye and a prolongation at 



the base of each antenna, making upon the front a deep longitudinal groove. Thorax 



appears to be transversely rugose, cylindrical, without tubercles or spines, but rather 



thickened behind, differing in that respect from the thorax of a Saperda, and slightly 



constricted near the elytra. Elytra thickly punctured, but scarcely confluent. The 



lower part of the tibia? and tarsi hairy, but confined to the forelegs ; the others being 



only slightly hairy, if at all. 



This insect would make a very good saperda, were it not for the extreme length of the 



antenna? and the form and character of the basal joint. I am not entirely satisfied with its 



reference to the Genus Cerambix, still its characters do n<>t materially disagree with those 



given by Mr. Wkstwood. Length rather more than j of an inch. 



