Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1
Drury, Dru
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Head dark brown, the top being tawny yellow, the sides striped with
white. Antennæ greyish brown, much longer than the insect. Thorax very
cylindrical, without spines, yellowish brown, having a white stripe on
each side, and another on the top. Scutellum very small, semicircular,
white, with a black spot in the middle. Elytra margined from the middle
to their extremities, where each terminates in a spine, having a white
line running on each side from the thorax to their extremities,
internally serrated; another white line (also internally indented) runs
along the suture, being parallel with those on the thorax and head.
Abdomen greyish, with some tawny yellow hairs on each ring. Breast tawny
yellow. Legs greyish brown, (the fore ones in one of the sexes being
elongated) without any spines at any of the joints.
{87}CLYTUS PICTUS.
Plate XLI. fig. 2.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Longicornes. FAMILY: Cerambycidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. CLYTUS, _Fabr._ Cerambyx p. _Linn._ Leptura p. _Drury_.
CLYTUS PICTUS. Thorace rotundato flavo-fasciato, elytris fasciis septem
flavis; anticis antrorsum, posticis retrorsum arcuatis. (Long. Corp. fere
9 lin.)
SYN. Leptura picta, _Drury, Append. vol._ 2.
Clytus flexuosus, _Fabr. Syst. El._ 2. 345. 1. _Syst. Ent._ 191. 22.
(Callidium f.) _Oliv. Ent._ 4. 70. 34. _t._ 6. _f._ 76.
Leptura Robiniæ, _Forster Cent. Ins. p._ 43.
HABITAT: New York; where they are found upon the Locust tree (_Drury_).
Head black, surrounded by a yellow line; front yellow, with a black spot
between the antennæ. Antennæ red brown. Thorax black, cylindrical, and
smooth, without spines or risings; being encircled with four yellow
rings. Scutellum yellow and oval. Elytra black, with six irregular
angulated streaks crossing them at equal distances; and another regular
and even yellow line crossing them at the joining of the thorax. Abdomen
yellow, with dark brown rings. Breast greyish yellow. Legs light red
brown, with a small tibial spur.
STENOCORUS (ELAPHIDION) IRRORATUS.
Plate XLI. fig. 3.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Longicornes. FAMILY: Cerambycidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. STENOCORUS, _Fabr._ Cerambyx p. _Linn._ SUBGENUS. Elaphidion,
_Serv._
STENOCORUS (ELAPHIDION) IRRORATUS. Thorace mutico inæquali, elytris apice
bidentatis, albo irroratis, antennis longis aculeatis. (Long. Corp. 9
lin.)
SYN. Ceramb. irroratus, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. 2. _p._ 633. 62. _Oliv.
Ent._ 4. 67. _t._ 21. _f._ 163. _Fabricius Syst. Ent. p._ 180. 9. _Syst.
Eleuth._ 2. 307. 9. _Serville Ann. Soc. Ent. de Franc._ 1835. _p._ 67.
(Elaphidion i.)
HABITAT: Jamaica; residing in the mahogany trees (_Drury_).
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