NEW BRITISH SPECIES NOTICED IN 1856. 83 



47. Amalus minimus, Walton, Brit. Mus. Cat. of Brit. 



Rhynchoph. 42, 3 (1856). 



48. Gymnetron collin us, Gyll. Schonh. ; Walton, Brit. 



Mus. Cat. of Brit. Rhynchoph. 44, 8 (1856). 

 Observation. Gymnetroif collina, Steph. Man., is re- 

 ferred by Mr. Walton to 67. Potatorum, Gyll. 



49. Miarus plantarum (Dej.), Schonh., Germ. ; Walton, 



Brit. Mus. Cat. of Brit. Rhynchoph. 44, 2 (1856 . 



50. Phlozophagus spadix ? Herbst, Schonh.; Walton, 



Brit. Mus. Cat. of Brit. Rhynchoph. 46, 2 (1856). 

 Genus CRYPHALUS, Erich. Archiv., 1836, I., 61. 

 Distinguished from Bust riches by the antennae having 

 the funiculus quadriarticulate ; in Bostrichus, as restricted by 

 Erichson, it consists of five joints. 



51. Cryphalus binodulus (Weber), Ratzeb., Forst. Insect. 



i. 163, Tab. 13, fig. 18 (1837) ; E. W. Janson, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1 Sept. 1856; Zool. 5305 

 (1856). Fig. 9. 

 I found several specimens in the bark of a dying aspen 



(Populus tremula), near Highgate, at the end of August 



and beginning of September. 



52. Monotoma conictcollis, Aube, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. 



vi. 455, 1, Tab. 17, fig. 1 (1837). 

 Taken by myself in a nest of Formica rufa near High- 

 gate. 



53. Monotoma angusticollis, Gyll., Aube, Ann. Ent. 



Soc. Fr. vi. 457, 2, Tab. 17, fig. 2 (1837). Cerylon 

 angusticolle, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. app. 634 (1827). 

 Found by myself in a nest of Formica rufa near High- 

 gate. 



The foregoing list will have made the reader acquainted 

 with the publication of Mr. Walton's Catalogue of British 

 Rhynchophora. In reference thereto, I consider it my duty 



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