Genus. Cerambyx, Linn. &c. (Subgenus: Cosmisoma, Serv.)
Cerambyx (Cosmisoma) Plumicornis. Fulvus, elytris cruce nigrâ, pedibus antennisque nigris, his scopiferis. (Long. Corp. 7½ lin.)
Syn. Leptura plumicornis, Drury, App. vol. 2. Sch. Syn. Ins. 3. 429. (Saperda p.)
Habitat: Musquito Shore, Bay of Honduras.
Head dark brown. Antennæ longer than the insect, and slender; basal joint thickest; furnished with remarkable tufts of hair, four on each antenna; the smallest is on the first articulation from the head; the next articulation has a pretty large one surrounding entirely the joint of the antenna, and is black. On the next joint is a very small one, standing on the joint in the form of an acute angle, and is also black. At a little distance from this, the largest tuft is situated, which, like the second, entirely surrounds the antenna, part of it next the head being black, the remainder orange colour. Thorax round, without lateral spines, orange-coloured. Elytra orange, with a broad black patch crossing them in the middle, where are two lines in the form of a cross. Legs black, the hind ones very long. Femora thick at the tips.
CYPHUS 16-PUNCTATUS.
Plate [XLIX]. fig. 4.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Rhyncophora. Family: Curculionidæ. Subfamily: Brachyderides.
Genus. Cyphus, Schonherr. Chlorima, Dej. Curculio p., Linn.
Cyphus Sedecim-Punctatus. Cœrulescens, thorace punctis nigris quatuor, coleopteris duodecim. (Long. Corp. 1 unc.)