COLEOPTERA. 
CERAMBYX GIRAFFA. 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
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Antennae fetaceous: feelers four: thorax fpinous, or gibbous: wing-cafes linear. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Black: thorax unarmed, elongated, with tranfverfe rugofe ftriae: wing-cafes fcabrous at the bafe, and 
fmooth towards the apex. 
Cerambyx Giraffa: niger, thorace inermi elongato tranfverfim rugofula, elytris ball fcabriufculis 
apice glaberioribus. 
C. Giraffa. Trans. Linn. Soc. VI. p. 198 . t.2l.f.S. 
This is an infed of moft extraordinary appearance. It was difcovered in New Holland by Dr. White, 
who refided in that country for fome time, and is at prefent in the cabinet of Mr. Francillon. 
Dr. Schreibers of Vienna, when in England, defcribed this fpecies of Cerambyx, with feveral other 
very curious Auftralafian infers, from the cabinet of Mr. Francillon, in a paper prefented to the Linnaean 
Society of London, and which was afterwards printed in their tranfadions as above referred to. The names 
affigned to thofe infeds by the ingenious Dr. Schreibers are for the moft part retained by us; but we 
have to regret that the prolixity of his fpecifical diftindions do not fo perfedly accord with our ideas as to 
allow us to adopt them alfo, without material abridgment, and fome alterations: they want that decifive 
concifenefs which fo eminently diftinguithes the charaders of the great Swedith naturalift, and of Fabn- 
cius 5 examples which, in our mind, cannot be too clofely imitated in the fcientific labours of future 
entomologifts. _ 
CERAMBYX FICHTELII. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Braffy olivaceous: head broad: eyes prominent and divided: wing-cafes much attenuated, lengthened a: 
the tip, and fomewhat bearded. 
C«umy* FicHTM.it: eneoolivaceus, capite latiffimo oculis prominentibus divifis, elytris valde attend 
atis apice prolongatis, lub-baibatis. 
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