Plate XXlll.— Continued. 



Fig. 201. SCOLYTUS DESTRUCTOR, Olivier, Curtis. [F. Scoljiidse. G. Scolytus, 

 Geoffr.] 



Oblong, convex, pitchy black, shining; parts of mouth, antenna?, anterior margin of thorax, 

 elytra, and logs reddish-yellow. Head flat in front, finely rugulose-punctate, with a large, dense 

 patch of fulvous hairs. Thorax transverse, narrowed in front, sparsely and deeply punctate at the 

 sides, faintly on tlie disc. 8cutcllum sunk, opaque. Elytra oblong, nearly quadrate, reddish- 

 yellow or chestnut, sometimes with a fuscous patch or transverse band in tlie centre; each with 

 six deeply punctate stria; ; interstices flat, each with an irregular row of minute punctures, that 

 next the suture wide, depressed at the base, and roughly piinctate. Beneath pitchy black ; the 

 third and fourth abdominal segments with a small tubercle in the centre, on the anterior margin. 

 Length, ] ^-3 lines. 



Common in the south. Beneatli the bark of the limbs and trunks of recently felled and sickly 

 elms. 



Fig. 202. BARIDIUS ANALIS, Oliv. [F. Cryptorhynchida;. G. Baridius, Schoenh.] 

 (Baris analis, Curtis.) 



Oblong, black, shining, apical third of elytra red. Head .and rostrum minutely and sparsely 

 punctate, the latter curved. Thor.ix elongate, narrowed in front, sides rounded anteriorly, nearly 

 straiglit behind ; thickly and rather coarsely punctate, with a narrow, smooth, longitudinal, central 

 sjjace in front. Elytra deeply and broadly striate, the stria; minutely punctate ; interstices flat, 

 each with a row of minute punctures. Length, 2 lines. 



Very rare. Near Eyde, Isle of "Wight. 



Fig. 203. CIS BIDENTATUS, Oliv., Curtis. (Male.) [F. Cissids. G. Cis, Latr.-] 



Oblong, black, brown, or yellow, slightly shining, sp.irsely clothed with a short, sub-erect 

 yellowish-grey pubescence. Head concave in the middle, forehead flat, anterior margin reflexed, 

 bi-dentate ; antenna? and parts of mouth reddish-yellow. Thorax transverse, convex ; sides gently 

 rounded : anterior angles acute, prominent ; anterior margin produced over the head, bi-tuberculate ; 

 finely and rather thickly punctate. Elytra barely twice as long as the thorax, always of a lighter 

 colour than it, rather less thickly and finely punctate. Beneath pitchy black, obscurely punctate. 

 Legs reddish-yellow. In the female, the .anterior margin of the head is but slightly reflexed, its 

 angles rounded, and the produced anterior margin of the thorax is rounded and destitute of 

 tubercles. Length, 1-1,1 lines. 



Not uncommon in boleti on ash. 



Fig. 201. CICONES VARIEGATUS, Jlellwiff. \_F. Synclntidre. G. Ciconcs, Curtis.-] 

 (C. carpini, Ctirtis.) 



Oblong, above black or pitchy, sub-opaque, clothed with a sparse, short, sub-erect brown and 

 yellow pubescence, elytra with irregular yellow bands or spots. Head small, witii a slightly-curved, 

 impressed, longitudinal line in front on each side between the anteima?, parts of mouth and aiitennie 

 ferruginous. Thorax transverse, slightly narrowed behind ; sides rounded, margins reflexed and 

 finely creuulate ; posterior angles nearly rectangular ; base bi-sinuate; disc convex. Elytra a little 

 wider than the thorax, pnnctate-striate, alternate interstices raised, with numerous reddish-yellow 

 jiiitclics, more or less united, and usually forming three interrupted, flexuous, transverse bands. 

 Underside and logs ferruginous. Length, lA-1^ lines. 



Bare. Beneath bark of beech and hornbe.im ; Epjiing and New Forests ; and near Bromley, Kent. 



Fig. 205. CORYNETES CCERULEUS, De Gecr. [F. Clerids. G. Corynctcs, Herb.t.] 

 (C. violaceus, Curtis.) 



Oblong, blue, or greenish blue, shining, clothed with long, erect black liairs. Head nearly as 

 wide as the thorax, sparsely and rather finely i>unctate, antennae and palpi black. Thorax nejirly as 

 broad as long, rounded at the sides, sparsely and rather coarsely punctate. Elytra wider than the 

 thorax, with oblung punctures arranged in irregular rows at the base, interstices with a few minute 

 punctures.^ Underside and legs black. Length, 2-2.J lines. 



Not imeonimon in the south. 

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