Syn. Ceramb. Carcharias, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 631. 52. Fabricius Syst. Eleuth. 2. 317. 1. Oliv. Ent. 4. 68. t. 2. f. 22. Panzer F. I. G. 69. 1. Stephens Ill. Brit. Ent. Mand. vol. 4. 238.
Habitat: Germany (Drury). "In Europæ Sylvis" (Fabr.).
Head dark clay-coloured. Antennæ clay-coloured, with black rings, and about the length of the insect. Thorax cylindrical and clay-coloured, without any spines or risings on it. Scutellum nearly square. Elytra dark clay-coloured, and margined along the sides; when viewed through a microscope they appear to be covered with a great number of small black pustules. Abdomen and breast clay-coloured; as are the legs, on each of which is a small spine at the tip of the tibiæ.
This fine insect has, within a few years, been found in considerable abundance in the fenny districts of Cambridge and Huntingdonshire, upon low sallows.
STENOCORUS ATOMARIUS.
Plate [XLI]. fig. 6.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Longicornes. Family: Cerambycidæ, Leach.
Genus. Stenocorus, Fabr. Cerambyx p. Linn.
Stenocorus Atomarius. Nigricans, sericie luteâ indutus; thorace cylindrico nec tuberculato nec spinoso; elytris fusco cinereoque variegatis. (Long. Corp. 8 lin.)
Syn. Cerambyx atomarius, Drury, App. vol. 2. (nec De Geer, 5. p. 65. 4. nec Fabr. Syst. El. 2. 287. nec Oliv. 4. 67. t. 9. 59. d.)