NEW BRITISH SPECIES NOTICED IX 1860. 73 



de I'ocean sont plus pales que ceux des contiees orientales de 

 TEurope." 



27. BrachoxNYx indigena, Ilerbst ; E. W. Janson, Proc. 

 Eiit. Soc. 6 Aug;. I860, Zool. 7161 (1^60). 

 Curculio indigena, Herbst, Natursyst. Kaef. vi. 170, 



130, T. 71, f. 12 (1793). 

 RhynchcBnus indigena, GvU. Ins. Suec. iii. 71, 7 



(1813). 

 Brachonyx indigena, Schoenh. Cure. disp. meth. 232, 

 132 (1828), Gen. et Spec. Cure. iii. i. 329, 214 

 (1836); Guerin, Iconoor. Ins. Col. 145, T. 38, f. 3 

 (1833?); Ratzeb. Forst. Ins. i. 126, 21, T. 5, f. 9 

 (1837); Duval et Mign. Gen. Col. Eur. Cure. T. 19, 

 f. 8, 9(1855). 

 The genus Brachonyx, of which the insect now under 

 consideration is the sole known representative, differs from 

 Anthonomu.^, which it approximates in habit, in having the 

 thorax conspicuously longer than wide, the antennte inserted 

 rather behind the middle of the rostrum, the scutellum small 

 and nearly oj'bicular, the femora unarmed, and the tarsi 

 robust, their third joint especially very wide, tlie lobes lai-ge 

 and divergent, the claw-joint exceedingly short, scarcely pro- 

 jecting beyond the lobes of the preceding. 



Ratzeburg, in his great work above cited, has described, 

 and Hugo Troschel has delineated, the economy of this spe- 

 cies. The female beetle deposits her eggs in the month of 

 May in the young fir fronds, in which the larvse feed until 

 July, at which period, having attained their full growth, they 

 assume the pupa state, and in August the perfect insect 

 emerges. 



Common on firs in Sweden, Finland, Lapland, Northern 

 Germany, and the mountainous districts of Central Europe. 



