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CERAMBYX LITERATUS. 



LETTERED CERAMBYX. 

 COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna? fetaceous: feelers four: thorax fpinous or gibbous : wing- 

 cafes linear. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Cekambyx liteRatus. Cinereous : bafe of the wing-cafes with 

 raifed black dots : exterior margin brown, with 

 two confluent fpots, the posterior one branching 

 into a letter-form band. 



A new British fpecies of the Cernmbyx tribe, lately found in the 

 vicinity of Manchester by John King, Efq. and kindly communicated 

 to the Author. It is an infect of considerable fize, in appearance 

 remarkable for its elegance, and does not appear to have been de- 

 ferred or figured in any other publication. 



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