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Genus 119. PISSODES. 



Germar, Ins. Spec. 316 (1824). 



Corpus mediocre, oblongunij durum, squamoso-variegatum : rostro elongate arcuato tenui ; oculis 

 subovatis : protliorace subovato, basi sinuato-truncato : scutello sat magno, rotuudato : ehjtris 

 subparcallelis, antice sinuato-truncatis et prothoracis basi vix latioribus, ad apicem vix coarctatis • 

 alls amplissimis. Antenna mediocres, prope medium rostri insertse ; funiculo 7-articulato, 

 articulo primo longiusculo obeonico, reliquis brevioribus (secundo sub-obconico) ; capitulo ovato, 

 apicc acuminatOj quadri-annulato. Pedes robusti, antici basi approsimati : femoribus subclavatis 

 muticis : tibiis subrectis, ad apicem externum in uncum magnum deflexum arcuatum productis. 



The species of Fissodes are, apparently, not very numerous, only ten being 

 recorded by Schonberr in bis Genera et Species CurcuUonidum ; and the greater 

 number of them are natives eitber of nortbern or alpine regions, — being especially 

 attached, and often very injurious, to pine-forests, on tbe resinous trees of wbicb 

 tbey principally subsist. Tbey may be known by tbeir extremely bard and 

 prettily variegated surfaces, and more or less oblong bodies, by the sinuated basal 

 margins of theu- prothorax and el}i;ra, by the somewhat shortened second joint of 

 their funiculus, and by the exceedingly curved hook at the apex of their tibiae. 



269. Pissodes notatus. 



P. oblongus rufo-piceus, squamulis albidis undique irroratus, prothorace basi valde sinuate angulis 

 posticis acutisj in medio punctis quatuor albidis notato, scutello albido, elytris puuctato-striatis, 

 fasciis duabus (una sc. antemedia obscura et altera postmedia majore) flavo-albidis ornatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 2\-Al. 



CurcuUo notatus, Fab. Ifant. Ins. i. 103 (1787). 

 Mhynch(Enus notatus, Grj'll. Ins. Suec. iii. 69 (1813). 



, Zetterst. Fna Ins. Lapp. i. 315 (1828). 



Pissodes notatus, Schon. Gen. et Spec. Cure. iii. 258 (1836). 



Habitat in Maderse australis pinetis, sub ligno recenter secto vel ad truncos arborum resinosos, 

 autumno non infrequens : ad Curral das Romeiras abundat, qua Novembri mense a.d. 1817 

 copiosissime observavi. 



P. oblong, rufo-piceous, and besprinkled all over witb small whitish scales. Rostrum long, linear, 

 and finely punctured. Prothorax rugoscly punctured ; nearly as wide behind as the base of the 

 elytra ; with a faint unpuuctured dorsal keel ; and with the posterior margin considerably 

 sinuated, the hinder angles being acute. Scutellum i-ound, and densely clothed with pale scales. 

 Elytra almost parallel at their base; punctate-striated; with the alternate interstices just per- 

 ceptibly raised, and aliruptly terminated before the apex, — which is consequently somewhat 

 constricted; with an obscure, broken, oblique fascia before the middle, and another, larger, 

 broader, and transverse one behind the middle, common to both, more or less clothed with white 



and yellowish-white scales. 



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