Plate XXVI. — Continued. 



Fig. 229. ATTELABUS CURCULIONOIDES, L., C. \_F. Attelabida. G. Attelabus, Z,.] 



Broad ovate, convex, black, shining, thorax and elytra red. Head and rostrum coarsely 

 punctate, the former with a deep linear impression on each side between the eyes; antenna; with 

 the 2d, 3d, and 4th joints pitchy red. Tbnrax convex, transverse, narrowed in front; sides 

 rounded ; finely punctate. Scutelhim black, with a few minute punctures. Elytra sub-quadrate, 

 convex, each with eij^ht shallow tlexuous coarsely p\inctate stria>; interstices flat, sparsely and 

 finely punctate. Underside and legs black. Length, i-'i lines. Common in woods on young oaks. 



Fig. 230. ANTIIRIBUS ALBINUS, L., C. (Male.) [F. Anthribldje. G. Anthribus, Geoffr.l 



Elongate, sub-cylindrical, thickly clothed with a reddish brown, grey, and black pile. Head 

 and rostrum with a dense white pile, the former with a fine central line on the crown, and a 

 transverse arcuate impression between the eyes, the latter with a triangular notch at the apex; 

 antenna; black, with the tips of joints 1-7, the apical half of the 8th, and the basal half of the 

 9th, white. Thorax transverse, narrowed in front; sides rounded anteriorly, straight behind; 

 the disc with three oblong tubercles surmounted by a minute dense fascicle of black bristles, the 

 central one sometimes divided. Elytra wider than the thorax; convex clothed with a dense reddish 

 brown pile; punctate-striate; the third interstice with a row of four or five small fascicles of black 

 bristles; each with a more or less distinct irrorated white patch in the middle, and a broad white 

 band occupying the apical fourth, with the exception of a small quadrate space at the inner 

 angle. Beneath with a yellowish white pile. Femora reddish brown; tibia^ with a brown ring 

 near the base, and another towards the middle, the apical third with a white pile; tarsi black 

 with a few white hairs at the tip of each joint, claw joint covered at the base with white hairs. 

 In the female the antenna; are black, the 8th joint alone covered with white pile. Length, 3J-5 

 lines. In the sout li ; in old hedges, &c. 



Fig. 231. PRION i:S CORIARIUS, L., Curt. (]\Ialc.) [F. Prionida;. G. Prionus, Geojfr:] 



Pitchy black, shining. Head narrower than the thorax, coarsely punctate, with a central line; 

 clypeus and palpi reddish brown, antenna^ nearly as long as the body, 12-jointed, robust, tapering 

 to the apex, the inner apical angle of each articulation xery acute. Thorax transverse, with a 

 fringe of yellow hairs in front, armed on each side with three large teeth, of which the central is 

 the most prominent; base bi-sinuate with a cilia of yellow hairs; thickly rugulose- punctate at 

 the sides, more sparsely on the disc. Seutellum coarsely punctate. Elytra wider than the 

 thorax, sides nearly parallel, inlenial apical angles with a minute tooth; very coarsely and con- 

 fluently punctate; each with three indistinct ridges. Beneath reddish brown; meso- and meta- 

 thorax clothed with a yellowish grey down ; abdomen sparsely and finely punctate, with a few short 

 yellowish grey hairs. Legs pitchy black, tarsi brown, femora and tibia; compressed. In the 

 female the antenna^ are shorter, slender, serrate, 11 -jointed, the 11th and 12tli joints soldered 

 together. Length, 9-20 lines. Widely distributed in old oaks. 



Fig. 232. PLATYRHINUS LATIROSTRIS, F., C. [F. Anthribids. G. Platyrhinus, CT.] 



Elongate, depressed, thickly clothed with short black, brown, and grey hairs. Head broad, 

 forehead flat, with a central line terminating anteriorly in a fovea; clothed in front with ochreous 

 pubescence; rostrum broad, with two ridges in the centre, clothed with ochreous pubescence; 

 mandibles and antenna^ black. Thorax transverse, produced at the sides in the middle into a 

 slightly emarginate lolie; depressed centre limited in front by an arcuate ridge; surface uneven; 

 with two obscure transverse flcxuous ridges, one in the middle, the other near the base. Elytra 

 wider than the thorax, sides nearly parallel; each with ten rows of remote, minute, deep punctures; 

 interstices flat, the 3d. 5th, and 7th, raised; apical fifth covered with a dense ochreous pile, and 

 with three reddish yellow interrupted transverse bands. Legs black; thighs with a few grey 

 hairs; tibia; annulatcd with ochreous and reddish brown hairs; tarsi with ashy grey hairs at the 

 base of each joint. Length, 5-6 lines. 



Bare. Inhabits the boletus of the ash (.S/)/«rna //(U-mea) ; Norfolk; Bristol; Cheltenham; 

 New Forest, i^c. 

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