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TAB. LVIIL 
CERAMBYX fulminans. 
Class 5. Insecta. Order 1. Coleoptera. 
Gen. Char. Antenna; setaceous. Eyes lunar, em- 
bracing the base of the antennae. Thorax partly- 
receiving the head. Elytra sublinear. Body 
oblong. 
Spec. Char. Thorax globose, spotted. Elytra black, 
with undulato-angular white bands. 
Syn. Callidium fulminans. Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. ii. 
332. n. 62. 
Cerambyx fulminans. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1853. n. 278. 
Oliv. Ins. 70. t. 5.f. 63. 
Cerambyx fulminans. Turt. 2. 330. 
Clytus fulminans. Fab. Syst. Eleulli. ii. 346. n. 4. 
Length of the Body 8 \ ,■ 
Breadth of the Elytra 2 j 
The specimen of this elegant insect (which Fabricius 
gives as a native of North America) from which our 
figure was taken, was found by a young lady upon some 
flowers at a garden at Kensington. It is now in the 
cabinet of the Rev. W. Kirby. Probably, like Cerambyx 
violaceus, it was not originally a native of this country, 
but imported in its larva state in timber. We remember 
seeing at A. MacLeay’s, Esq., a very large larva of some 
species, of this genus we imagine, which came alive in 
timber from New Holland. 
The insect before us belongs to Mr. Marsham’s fifth 
family of Cerambyx , ( Thorax unarmed, globose, not de- 
pressed), consisting of species which Linne had improperly 
considered as belonging to the genus Leptura, since their 
