76 COLEOPTERA. 



robust, its thorax is less cylindrical and more densely punc- 

 tate, sub-Gj3aque, and its elytra are broader and their sculp- 

 ture is coarser and deeper. 



The first indigenous specimen of this insect which came 

 under my notice was given me by Mr. E. W. Robinson, 

 who took it beneath bark of fir, near Guildford, Surrey, on 

 the 21st of May, 1858, and I have since found it under 

 similar circumstances in the same county. In Mr. Wol- 

 laston's collection is an example taken by him some years 

 since at the "Devil's Dyke," and I have seen individuals in 

 several of the metropolitan collections confounded with H. 

 ater. 



o2. Cryphalus Fagi, F. ; E. W. Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 6 Feb. 3860, Zool. 6937 (1860); H. S. Gorham, 

 Zool. 6905 (1860). 

 Apate Fagi, Fab. Ent. Syst. Supp. ]57, 16 (1798); 



Syst. El. ii. 383, 16 (1801). 

 Cryphalus Fagi, Eric. Archiv. f. Naturgesch. ii. 62 

 (1836). 

 The narrow subcylindrical form, long elytra, prominent 

 tubercles or processes on the anterior portion of the thorax, 

 and red legs and antennae, distinguish this species. 



I found an example near Hampstead on the 31st July, 

 1859, among refuse of a faggot- stack, and Mr. Gorham 

 subsequently captured it in some plenty in bark of beech 

 near Westei-ham, Kent. 



33. Cryphalus Abietis, Ratzeb. ; E. W. Janson, Proc. 



Ent. Soc. 6 Feb. 1860, Zool. 6937 (1860). 



Cryphalus Ahietis, Ratzeb. Forst. Ins. i. 163, 10; T. 13, 



f. 17 (1837). 



Readily recognized by t]ie tubercles on the anterior portion 



of the thorax being few in number and irregular in their 



distribution (not in concentric rows), the regular series of 



