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Genus XVIIL NECYDALIS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



interna setaceous. Palpi four, filiform. Ely- 

 tra smaller or shorter than the wings. Tarsi 

 with four articulations ; the third large and 

 bilobate. 



Generul Observations. 



The wing-cases being so much shorter than 

 the wings in the Necydalis, forms a character 

 which at once distinguishes this genus from the 

 preceding. 



No one has observed the metamorphosis of 

 these insects, but it may be presumed from 

 analogy, that the larvae live in the substance of 

 wood ; since Degeer remarked a conical trunk 

 at the end of the abdomen in one species, si- 

 milar to that in the Cerambyx, and probably 

 given to the insect for the same purpose. 



SPECIFICATION. 



Necydalis minor. N. elytris testaceis, apice line- 

 ola alba, antennis corpore longioribus, Linn. 

 Syst. Nat, p. 641. Gmel. 1878, 

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