324 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 33. Cerambyx. 



• Violaceus, Thorax rounded pubefcent : body violet : antennae mode- 

 rate. 



Donovan's Eng. Ins. *vol. ii. plate 6l.fig. i. 



Inhabits Europe, chiefly in fir timber which has been felled fonie 

 time and which has not been (tripped of its bark: bores 

 Terpentine cavities between the bark and the wood, which 

 are larger in diameter as the infefl incrcafes in fize, filling 

 the fpace it leaves behind with its excrement which relembles 

 faw duft. 



Body dark violet, a little hairy, punctured : antenna hardly as 

 long as the body, hairy : fternum with a fmall projecting 

 point : fihells linear, rounded at the tip, gibbous at the bafe : 

 varies in having the head and thorax and fometimes the body 

 greenifh. Linn. Trattfi v> page 246. plate 12. 



Auratus, Thorax with a lateral deprefled tooth: green:bronzed ; 

 antennas black ; hind-thighs blue. 

 Inhabits America', refembles the lail. 

 Legs purple . probably not of this divifion. 



Femoratus. Thorax naked: body black opake : thighs red : antennae 

 moderate. 

 Inhabits Germany. Olfr. Ins- 70. tab. 7. fig. 77. 



Fukrattu. Thorax naked polifhed ; body black : thighs rufous : anten- 

 nas moderate. 

 Inhabits Saxony ; refembles the laft : Jliells fubftriate. 



Amethyf- Pubefcent; blue: legs rufous: thighs clavate, the club 

 tmus. black. 



Inhabit6 North America; fmall. 

 Antennae Ihort black, rufous at the bafe, 



Americanos, Thorax pubefcent : black; {hells with 2 rufous band^ 

 Inhabit* America. 



Callidium 2-i.afciaturn. Oli*v. Inf. 70. tab. 4. fig. 42. 

 Antennae moderate, the joints 2-fpined at the tip : thorax with 



2 tubercles : thighs fubclavate. 

 Initead of the hinder band is fometimes a red marginal fpot. 



Acuminata. Thorax tuberculate black im : mells pointed, green with a 



blue future. 



Inhabits the Cape of good hope. 



Head brown : antennae moderate, the joints fpinous at the tip : 



thorax rounded : legs black : thighs clavate, the club red. 



Rujjicus* 



