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_).
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.