General colour greyish hazle. Antennæ longer than the insect. Thorax cylindrical, with a single short spine on each side. Scutellum triangular, and of a yellowish colour. Elytra margined; having an oblong spot, of a faint yellowish colour, running transversely cross each, near the thorax, with two small spines of equal size at the tip of each. It is covered all over with short hair, or down.
PLATE XXXVIII.
PRIONUS (STENODONTES) DAMICORNIS.
Plate [XXXVIII]. fig. 1.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Longicornes. Family: Prionidæ, Leach.
Genus. Prionus, Geoffroy. Cerambyx p. Linn. Subgenus. Stenodontes, Serv.
Prionus (Stenodontes) Damicornis. Thorace marginato denticulato, mandibulis porrectis bidentatis, elytris brunneis. (Long. Corp. mandib. inclus. 3 unc. 7½ lin.)
Syn. Cerambyx Damicornis, Linn. Mant. 1. p. 532. Fabricius Syst. Ent. p. 162. 10. Syst. Eleuth. II. p. 262. 23. (Prionus d.) De Geer Ins. v. p. 97. 2.
Lucanus fuscus maximus, Browne Nat. Hist. Jamaica, p. 429. t. 44. f. 8. Sloane Jamaica, vol. 2. tab. 37. fig. 6.