•Brenthid^. 
232 Longicoknia. INSECTS. 
hues so elegantly ! Then, again, the charming yellow 
and red Anisocerus duldssimus,’* found by Bates, is a 
truly exquisite insect — Plate 3, fig. 8. The Australian 
Tcloccra Wollastoni — Plate 3, fig, 4 — is curious from 
the antennae being dilated at the end. It was named 
b}”^ the writer after Thomas Vernon Wollaston, Esq. 
Pascdeci Idee — Plate 3, fig. 5 — with its strange spined 
cheeks, was named generically after F. Pascoe, Esq. ; 
the specific name is after Madame Ida Pfeiffer. It 
belongs to the group Tmesisternus and Coptomma, a 
New Guinea, New Zealand, and East Indian Archipelago 
set of Longicorns. Plate 3, fig. 6 is a curious Longi- 
corn from Lord Howe’s Island, which at first I named 
Deucalion Wollastoni. I subsequently constituted a 
genus Pyrrha for it. 
Many of the larvae of Longicorn beetles are eaten by 
the less civilized races of man. Even the Homans are 
believed to have used the large 
juic}'' grubs of Prionus cori- 
arius, Hamaticlierus heros, and 
perhaps other species of Longi- 
corn beetles, and included them 
under the name of Cossus.f 
The larvae of Stmodontes 
damicornis^ a large blackish 
brown prionidous beetle, com- 
mon in the West Indies and in 
some parts of South America, 
are eaten both by white and 
black people. The Montac, the grub of a Longicorn, 
is found in the Mauritius, and, according to St. Pierre, 
Fig. 128. Fig. 129. 
is dressed and eaten b^’ the white colonists, as well as 
the negroes. The larva of the Mucrodontia cerwfeorMis, 
* Hope, Tran. Ent. >Soc., vol iii. p. 133. 
t See White’s Catalogue of Longicorns in British Mtisenm 
collection. 
a South American insect living on the sap of the Bom- 
bax, is used as food In Cayenne the Titanus gigan- 
tens., one of the largest of beetles, has become rare 
from the eagerness, so I have heard, with which the 
negroes and natives search for its fine large sapid grub 
The Parandrid.® are South American depressed, 
pentamerous, short-horned Longicorns. 
The TrictenotomidjE are Eastern Longicorns, with 
heteromerous tarsi and curious antennae, somewhat like 
those of Lucanus. Mr. George Robert Gray named 
the genus, and very briefly described its first species 
{T. Childreni). 
Family— BHENTHIDHS. 
I believe the BrenthiDjE, generally placed with the 
Rhynchophora, to come here. Two curious forms are 
figured here. Fig. 128 represents furcillatus, 
and fig. 129 Taphroderes Mellii. The Brentus Tein- 
minckii of Java is the most gigantic of the tribe. 
Fig. 131. 
The very curious Hypocephalus, of which I have seen 
but one specimen, that in the collection of J. Aspinal 
