Plate XXIII. 



Fig. 197. BOSTRICHUS CAPUCINUS, L. \_F. Bostricbidee. G. Bostriclius, Geoff.-] 

 (Apate capucinus, Curtis.) 



Elongate, black, slightly shining, elytra, and four apical segments of abdomen beneath, red. 

 Head small, nutant, thickly and rather finely mgulose-punotate, with a fine, rather long, dusky 

 pubescence ; antenna and parts of mouth pitchy. Thorax convex, rounded in front and at the 

 sides anteriorly ; posterior angles obtuse ; coarsely granulate, depressed and tuberculate in front. 

 Elytra coarsely and deeply punctate, each with two or three obscure longitudinal ridges on the disc. 

 Length, 5 lines. 



Very rare. Old trees ; Norfolk ; Northampton ; Derbyshire ; &c. 



Fig. 198. NEMOSOMA ELONGATUM, L., Curtis. [F. Trogositid<E. G. Nemosoma, 

 Latr.} 



Long, narrow, cylindrical, black ; antennw, legs, and two spots on the elytra reddish-yellow. 

 Head of the width of, and as long as, the thorax, rather thickly punctate, the punctures elongate, 

 ■with a broad, central, longitudinal furrow in front ; antenna; 10-jointed. Thorax elongate, narrowed 

 behmd, sides slightly rounded, finely and rather thickly punctate. Elytra elongate, nearly cylin- 

 drical, slightly dilated at the sides behind, nearly thrice as long as the thorax ; finely punctate, 

 the punctures here and there arranged in indistinct rows, sutural stria deep at the apex, and 

 continued round the tips; their basal third, and a large, common, more or less transverse patch 

 near the apex, reddish-yellow. Beneath black, with the margins of the first four, and the entire 

 fifth, abdomiu.^1 segments reddish-brown. Length, 2|-2| lines. 



Rare. Inhabits beneath the bark of elms infested by Hjlesinus vittatiis, in whose burrows it 

 resides, preying on the larvaj of the Hi/hsini ; it has occurred near Sydenham, and Darenth, Kent; 

 and in the vicinity of Nottingham. 



Fig. 199. PLATYPUS CYLINDRUS, Fab., Curtis. (Male.) [F. Platypid^e. G. Pla- 

 typuSj Herbst.] 



Elongate, sub-cylindrical, sparsely pubescent, black ; elytra reddish-brown, fuscous towards tlie 

 apex. Head nearly as wide as the thorax, flat, opaque, and rugulose-punctate in front, glossy and 

 coarsely punctate behind; antenna; reddish-yellow. Thorax elongate, sub-cylindrical, slightly 

 narrowed posteriorly ; sides nearly straight, sinuate a little behind "the middle ; base bi-sinnate ; 

 finely and rather thickly punctate; with an anteriorly abbreviated, central, longitudinal impressed 

 Ime. Elytra elongate, cylindrical; each with eight longitudinal punctate furrows; interstices 

 convex, smooth ; retuse, densely pubescent, and bi-dentate at the apex, the inner denticulation 

 small, the outer one acute, divergent. Legs reddish-brown, tarsi testaceous, anterior thighs 

 bi-dentate. Beneath pitchy black, finely and rather sparsely punctate and pubescent. In the 

 female, the elytra are entire, and unarmed at the apex. Length, 3.i-3| lines. 



Rare. In old oaks ; Windsor and New Forests. 



Fig. 200. HYLESINUS OLEIPERDA, Fab. (Male.) [F. Hylesinid^. G. Hylesinus, 

 Fab.] (II. scaber, Curtis.) 



Broad, ovate, convex, black, clothed with a depressed black and fulvous pubescence. Head 



thickly and finely rugulose-punctate, with a semicircular, deeply-impressed pubescent space in front, 



between the antenna; ; antenna; reddish-yellow, club fuscous, its apex pale. Thorax transverse, 



convex, narrowed in front ; sides rounded, base bi-sinuate ; thickly rugulose-punctate, with a faint, 



central, longitudinal furrow, and a transverse arcuate impression near the posterior margin. Elytra 



oblong, convex ; each with nine deep longitudinal stria; ; interstices convex, granulate, that next 



the suture with a dense fulvous pubescence. Legs pitchy black, tarsi reddish-yellow. In the 



female the forehead is flat. Length, 1-1 1 lino. 



Not common. Beneath bark of ash and lilac ; Leicestershire ; Mickleham and Reigate, Surrey ; 

 Arc. o . I J ) 



