88 COLEOPTERA. 



Eccoptogaster destructor, Erich. Arch. f. Naturgesch, 

 1836, i. 58, 1 ; Ratzeb. Forst. Ins. i. 186, Tab. X., 

 fig. 1—3 (1837), but not of Olivier. 



Black, shining. Head deeply strigose, the strigse con- 

 verging anteriorly, the interstices forming acute ridges, of 

 •which one, the central, is more prominent ; thickly, coarsely, 

 and deeply punctured behind and at the sides, clypeus with a 

 broad triangular emargination in front; in the female with 

 a broad shallow depression on the crown, and scantily beset 

 with long depressed fulvous hairs ; in the male the upper 

 surface is excavated throughout its entire length, and thickly 

 clad, more especially towards the sides, with a long erect 

 greenish yellow pubescence. 



Thorax a little longer than wide, broadest at the base, 

 narrowed in front, rounded at the sides, coarsely and deeply 

 punctate laterally and anteriorly, finely and more sparsely 

 on the disc and posteriorly. Elytra as wide as the thorax, 

 with their sides parallel, the suture depressed throughout 

 its entire length, more strongly so towards the scutellum; 

 the extreme internal apical angle rounded, each with seven 

 rows of deep closely-set punctures, situate in a very shallow 

 stria, and beyond these, at the sides, numerous large, deep, 

 irregularly scattered punctures ; the spaces between the striae 

 are flat and occupied by a single, somewhat disorderly, row 

 of exceedingly minute punctures. 



Legs black; thighs narrowly, tibiae broadly, pitchy-red 

 at the apex ; tarsi testaceous. 



Abdomen much depressed, the surface of the second seg- 

 ment nearly perpendicular, very sparingly and rather ob- 

 scurely punctuate, the apical (fifth) segment with a broad 

 deep impression, and with the punctures coarser and a trifle 

 closer. Male with a round glabrous tubercle on the middle 

 of the anterior edge of*the third segment, and the anterior 

 margin of the fourth acute, produced and reflexed and 



