Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
Prionus brevicornis, _Fabricius Syst. Eleuth._ 2. _p._ 260. 15. _Sch.
Syn. Ins._ 3. 339. _Pal. Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Col. Pl._ 34. _f._
3.
HABITAT: New York.
Head black. Antennæ 12-jointed, about half the length of the insect.
Thorax black, broad, short, and shining; thick in the middle, but on the
sides thin and jagged. Scutellum bell-shaped. Elytra {79}rough, black,
and margined on the sides and suture; extending in one of the sexes
beyond the anus. Abdomen and under parts black and shining. Tibiæ with
two short spurs. Tarsi beneath of a dirty clay colour.
STENOCORUS (EBURIA) QUADRIMACULATUS.
Plate XXXVII. fig. 3.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Longicornes. FAMILY: Cerambycidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. STENOCORUS, _Fabr._ Cerambyx p. _Linn._ SUBGENUS: Eburia,
_Serville_.
STENOCORUS (EBURIA) 4-MACULATUS. Pallidè luteus, thorace spinoso scabro,
elytris bidentatis maculis binis glabris albidis. (Long. Corp. fere 1
unc.)
SYN. Cer. 4-maculatus, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. 11. _p._ 626. 27? _Fabricius
Syst. El._ II. _p._ 308. 16. _Syst. Ent. p._ 180. 11. _Trans. Ent. Soc._
1. _p._ 83. _Oliv. Ent._ iv. 67. _p._ 45. 58. _t._ 21. _f._ 164. _Sloan.
Hist. Jamaica_, 1. _p._ 209. 20. & 11. _tab._ 237. _f._ 21. _Serville
Ann. Soc. de Franc._ 3. _p._ 9. (Eburia q.)
HABITAT: Jamaica.
Head pale clay-coloured. Antennæ (being the length of the insect) of a
redder colour, and at their bases almost surrounded by the eyes. Thorax
of the same colour as the head, very cylindrical; having a sharp spine on
each side, and two short black ones on the top. Scutellum small, and
semi-oval. Elytra pale clay-coloured, having on each two spines at the
tip of each, the inner one being the smaller; and having also four oblong
yellow spots, two placed at the middle and two at the base. Each of these
spots appears to be composed of a large and a small one joined close
together; the largest (in the upper spots) being the inner one, and in
the lower spots being the outer one. Abdomen and legs of the same colour
as the head, &c.; the four posterior femora with two small spines at the
tips.
CLYTUS LONGIPES.
Plate XXXVII. fig. 4.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Longicornes. FAMILY: Cerambycidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. CLYTUS, _Fabr._ Cerambyx, _Linnæus_.
CLYTUS LONGIPES. Obscurè rufescens; thorace cylindrico, elytris pallidè
sericeis, lunulis quatuor fuscis apiceque dentato. (Long. Corp. fere 1
unc.)
SYN. Cerambyx longipes, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Sch. Syn. Ins._ 3. 409.
43.
Cerambyx lunulatus, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ (_Gmel._) 1. iv. _p._ 1864.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
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