Its larva bores in oak and chestnut wood.

In Callichroma the scutellum is acute at the tip, the anterior coxal cavities are closed behind, and the prothorax has a spine on each side.

A common European species, moschata, of which the odor has been already alluded to, is about an inch long, bronze green with bluish green legs and antennas.

Its larva lives in willow.

Splendi- dum, a red-bronze species from 1 to 1.