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PINK. TRUNK. 
with a gray band on the base of each joint; its length varying 
from 0.60 to 0.75 
233. Fragrant Oallichroma, Callichromasuaveolens, Linnaeus. (Coleoptera. 
Cerambycidae.) 
Though I know nothing of its habits, as it closely resembles the foregoing 
insects in size, form, long slender antennae, spiny thorax and some other par¬ 
ticulars, though pertaining to a different section of this family, I here introduce 
a short account of a species which is decidedly the most splendid Long-horned 
beetle which we have in the United States—my attention having been recently 
directed to it from its having been sent me from west of Arkansas by my valued 
friend Win. S. Robertson. A congeneric European species in its larva state 
very closely resembles the larvae of the preceding insects and bores in the inte¬ 
rior of trees like them, living in the willow. 
The Fragrant Callichroma is an inch and a quarter in length or more, and 
its head and thorax are of a brilliant golden green, its wing covers bright blue- 
green, its breast brassy green, its antennae and legs black with their thighs 
and the abdomen orange yellow. Its hind shanks are singularly compressed 
and sharp edged upon each side. 
It appears in considerable numbers, some seasons, in the states bordering 
on the Gulf of Mexico, and on the West India Islands, and was long ago 
figured and described by Sir Ilans Sloane, in his Natural History of Jamaica, 
(vol. ii., p. 208, pi. 237, fig. 40,) under the name of “ The Musk Fly,” or 
Scarabaus Capricornis viridis suaveolens, and he quaintly observes, “It smells 
very strong and not unpleasantly.” A specimen was sent to Linnaeus, from 
Carolina, by Doctor Garden, and was one of the last insects which were 
named and described by that illustrious man, who gave it, from Sloane, the 
name Cerambyx suaveolens, in the appendix to the last edition of his Systema 
Naturae, vol. iii, p. 224, published in 1770. It also appears under the same 
name in Gmclin and in Turton, though by a clerical error of this compiler ho 
and his translator state the shanks to bo rust-red, instead of the thighs. I 
strongly suspect, however, that the C. virens of Linnaeus and of Fabricius, of 
which a figure is given in the works of both Drury and Olivier, and the larva of 
which bores in the Rose-wood ( Amyris balsamifera), will prove to be merely 
the other sex of sauveolens, and that that name having been first published 
must supersede this. Linnaeus, however, with that species in his view, re¬ 
garded this as different. Prof. Ilaldcman, in his history of the insects of this 
family gives this as the C. elegans of Fabricius, but from Olivier’s figure and 
description of that species it is plainly another insect. DcJean, unaware that 
this species had been named and described gave it the name Callichroma splen- 
dida in his Catalogue, under which name Dr. LeConte lias recently described 
it, and it is also entered under this name in Dr. Melcheimer’s Catalogue lately 
published by the Smithsonian Institution. 
