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).
Head very dark brown, almost black; front dappled with cream colour. Antennæ dark brown, and about the length of the insect; having spines at each joint, except that next the head. Thorax spineless, brownish black, with white patches on its sides; and, when viewed through a microscope, punctured. Scutellum very small, and nearly triangular. Elytra brownish black, margined at the sides and suture, with whitish patches thereon, punctured; having two spines at the extremity of each. Abdomen and breast black, and covered with short grey hairs like pile. Legs reddish brown, with a small spine at the tip of each of the femora (except the fore ones), and another at the tips of the tibiæ.
STENOCORUS (ELAPHIDION) SPINICORNIS.
Plate [XLI]. fig. 4.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Longicornes. Family: Cerambycidæ, Leach.
Genus. Stenocorus, Fabr. Cerambyx p. Linn. Subgenus. Elaphidion, Serv.