What formerly would have been a repulsive object (such as a great longicorn or beetle) is worn with ease by the belles of our time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference

Invertebrates, especially insects, are quite diverse, and, in the uplands of the Caucasus, one can observe many examples of the varied insect life, including an endemic butterfly (Parnassius nordmanni) and the Rosalia longicorn beetle (Rosalia alpine, VU).    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Caucasus] Reference

The rain has washed the ground away from under its off legs, so that it tilts; and there were quantities of large longicorn beetles about during the night — the sort with spiny backs; they kept on getting themselves hitched on to my blankets and when I wanted civilly to remove them they made a horrid fizzing noise and showed fight — cocking their horns in a defiant way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

Many longicorn beetles in the tropics exactly mimic wasps, bees, or ants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

This giant longicorn (?) flew to my dads shirt in our hotel at nile river in Uganda.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's That Bug?] Reference

"A splendid longicorn," he said, fishing a pill-box from his pocket, and carefully imprisoning his captive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middy and Ensign] Reference

Coccinella (lady-bird), which swarms at Dorjiling, does not ascend so high, and a Clytus was the only longicorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference

I found this longicorn beetle on some Common Asphodel flowers on Friday, Feb 12th, in the northwest Negev, Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's That Bug?] Reference

If I had stopped to guess I would probably have considered the author a longicorn beetle or some fiddling orthopter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

Another fine longicorn, figured in Plate 25, Deliathis nivea, looks as if made of pure white porcelain spotted with black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

A fig-tree that I had growing in my garden had been much injured by a longicorn (Taeniotes scalaris) in 1870 and 1871, but was not touched in 1872.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

In these cases, and in most others, the longicorn beetles have lost the general form and aspect of their allies to take on the appearance of a distinct tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

On the fallen branches and logs I obtained many longicorn beetles; the woodcutters brought me many more, and from this valley were obtained some of the rarest and finest species in my collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

My trees suffered greatly from the attacks of a large and fine longicorn beetle (Taeniotes scalaris, Fab.) which laid its eggs in the green bark, and produced white grubs that mined into the stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

I was vexed about the time we had lost, and the extra work we had given the poor mules; my only consolation was that as we rode back I picked a fine new longicorn beetle off the leaves of an overhanging tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

Besides this, the Calopteron when walking on a leaf raises and depresses its wing cases, and I observed exactly the same movement in a longicorn beetle (Evander nobilis, Bates), which is evidently a mimetic form of this genus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

The curious and very rare little longicorn, Tethlimmena aliena, quite unlike its nearest allies in the same country, is an exact copy on a somewhat smaller scale of a malacoderm, Lygistopterus amabilis, both found at Chontales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

This is especially the case with the longicorn beetles, which are much persecuted by insectivorous birds; and everywhere in tropical regions some of these are to be found so completely disguised as to be mistaken for species of the protected groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

The pretty longicorn, Callia albicornis, closely resembles two species of malacoderms (Silis chalybeipennis and Colyphus signaticollis), all being small beetles with red head and thorax and bright blue elytra, and all three have been found at Panama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

The beetles furnish us with many species of large size, and of the most brilliant metallic lustre, among which the Tmesisternus mirabilis, a longicorn beetle of a golden green colour; the excessively brilliant rose-chafers, Lomaptera wallacei and Anacamptorhina fulgida; one of the handsomest of the Buprestidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

Another longicorn, about the same size (Coremia hirtipes), has its two hindmost legs greatly lengthened, and furnished with brushes: one I saw on a branch was flourishing these in the air, and I thought at first they were two black flies hovering over the branch, my attention being taken from the body of the beetle by the movement of the brushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

Many other species of Callia also resemble other malacoderms; and the longicorn genus Lycidola has been named from its resemblance to various species of the Lycidae, one of the species here figured (Lycidola belti) being a good mimic of Calopteron corrugatum and of several other allied species, all being of about the same size and found at Chontales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

The rain has washed the ground away from under its off legs, so that it tilts; and there were quantities of large longicorn beetles about during the night -- the sort with spiny backs; they kept on getting themselves hitched on to my blankets and when I wanted civilly to remove them they made a horrid fizzing noise and showed fight -- cocking their horns in a defiant way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

The adult is a longicorn beetle, of slender, cylindrical form, over one-half inch in length and about one-eighth of an inch in width.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

Pachyrhynchi; and there are also several longicorn beetles (Aprophata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

A longicorn (Collyrodes Lacordairei) mimics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Amongst the beetles I found a curious longicorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

Giant longicorn? from Uganda.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's That Bug?] Reference

The engraving on the preceding page represents in its various transformations one of the most familiar and graceful of the longicorn beetles of Ceylon, the Batocera rubus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

Asphodel longicorn?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's That Bug?] Reference