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FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. 



The beetle (fig. 113) is elongated and cylindrical, of pitchy brown 



colour. The thorax is darker than the elytra, and longer than broad. 



Legs rusty brown colour, and the antennae and tarsi lightish-yellow. 



In the male the apex of the elytra is much inflexed, with a tooth 



on each elytron, and the suture is so raised 



on the inflexed portion as to form a small 



keel. 



In the female the apex is most feebly 

 inflexed, and the extreme apical edges are 

 rounded. 



Genus Dryoc.etes. 



Fig. 113.— Xylocleptes b 

 (From Barbey.) 



The genus Dryocsetes may be said to 

 be of very minor importance, so far as 

 economic forest entomology is concerned. 

 The whip of antennae five-jointed ; elytra distinctly punctured, and 

 covered with fine pubescence and smooth. 



DRYOCiETES VILLOSUS (F.) 



I found this species very plentifully in the rough bark of an old 

 dead standing oak in Chatsworth Park, Derbyshire. I have also, more 



-Mofher-gallcry o/Dryocsetes villosiis 

 hark ofoal: 



Fig. 115.— Dryoca-tes vil- 

 losus. (From Barbey.) 



recently, had its markings pointed out to me by my friend Mr R S. 

 Bagnall, in Gibside, Co. Durham (see fig. 114). These markings were 

 on an old dead standing oak. The beetle (fig. 115) is of a reddish- 



