by the beauty of its colours. The figure fhews it of 

 its natural fize. It is a native of South America : the 

 ground-colour of the elytra or wing- cafes is a browniih 

 black, varied with ftreaks and markings of pale yellow 

 and orange, which in fome fpecimens approaches to red. 

 The head and thorax of the infect are alfo marked in 

 the fame manner, and the legs are crofTed by a band of 

 the fame colours. The furface of the wing-cafes, when 

 narrowly viewed, is of a velvetty appearance, or coated 

 with a fine upright villus. This fpecies is principally 

 diftinguimed by the great length of the fore-legs, which 

 are {till longer in the male infect than the female. The 

 Cerambyces, like other infects of the beetle- tribe, pro- 

 ceed from eggs, and pafs through the ftate of larva?, 

 which are generally of a yellowiih white colour, and 

 principally refide in the decayed parts of trees. 



