SAPERDA CARCHARIAS. Griseo-pubescens, nigro-punctata, antennis
mediocribus griseo nigroque annulatis. (Long. Corp. 5.-8 lin.)
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.