NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1864. 75 



size of 0. piipes), but has no lateral lapjDets at tlie apes 

 of the rostrum. It is brownish-grey, with the sides of the 

 thorax and elytra greyish- white ^ the elytra are rather smooth 

 and oblong-ovate. 



53. Lixus FiLiFORMis, Fab., Syst. El. ii. 501 tl5 (Cm-culio); 



Schon. ; Redt,, Faun. Anst. 752 ; E. W. Janson, 



Proc. Ent. Soc. 7 Nov. 1864, Ent. M. Mag. vol. i. 



p. 171. 



Mr. Janson exhibited at the Ent. Soc. a specimen of this 



insect taken by Mr. Sidebotham of Manchester near Devizes. 



I am informed it was beaten either off oak or birch. It 



appears to be common on thistles in Germany, and may be 



known from the hitherto recognized British species by the 



basal joint of the antennae being scarcely longer than the 



three first joints of the funiculus. 



59. Tychius pygm^us, B. de Barneville, Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. serie ii. Tom. xii. (1860), p. 167 ; E. C. Rye, 

 Ent. M. Mag. vol. i. p. 168. 



Although M. de Barneville does not refer to the con- 

 spicuous shortness of the antennae in his insect, there can, I 

 think, be no doubt that it is identical with (and prior in 

 publication to) the T. hrei'icornis of Waterhouse (Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 5 May, 1862; Zool. 8064 (1862); Ent. Ann, 

 1863, p. 99, 94)." 



It is very like Miccotrogus picirostris, but smaller, with 

 the rostrum more slender, the thorax less convex, &c., and 

 of course, having seven joints to the funiculus of the antennie, 

 instead of six, as in Miccotrogus. 



