190 CATALOGUE OF THE INSECTS OF 



230. Cis, Latreille. 



1. C. BoLETi, Fah. 



Steph. Illust., Mand., iii., 344. 

 In Pohjporus versicolor. Common. January — November. 



2. C. FESTivus, Panz. 



Gyll. Ins. Suec.y iii., 381. — Ptinus pygmaeus, Marsh., i., 86? — 

 Cis pygmaeus, Steph. Illust., Mand., in., 346? 



Fusco-testaceoiis, narrow, tliorax anteriorly truncate, elytra 

 irregularly punctate, with a thin, stiff, short pubescence. Head 

 transverse, fusco-testaceous, very finely punctulate, with the ante- 

 rior margin reflexed. Eyes globose, nigro-brunneous. Antennas 

 a little shorter than the thorax, pale testaceous. Thorax a little 

 wider than long, anteriorly obliquely truncate, the anterior angles 

 not produced, the sides and posterior angles exactly rounded, 

 narrowly margined ; the base truncate, and narrowly margined ; 

 above moderately convex, equal, fusco-testaceous, very finely and 

 thickly punctulate, sprinkled with very short, rigid, shining 

 pubescence. Scutellum small, rounded, concolorous. Elytra of 

 the breadth of the middle of the thorax, and almost three times 

 longer than it, narrow, convex above, equal, fusco-testaceous, 

 everywhere very thickly finely punctate, sprinkled with pubes- 

 cence, like that of the thorax. Legs pale testaceous. — (Gyll.) 

 Length | — 1 lin. 



A single specimen from Havensworth woods. — J. H. 



3. C. NiTiDTJS, Fah. 



In Polyporus versicolor. Common. 

 This species occasionally produces a clicking noise, like that 

 of AnoMum striaticm. 



4. C. BiDENTATUs, Marsh. 



Gyll. Ins. Suec, iii., 384. — Stej^h. Illust, Mand., iii., 374. — 



Curt. Brit. Ent., 402. — Ptinus bidentatus, Marsh. Ent. 



Brit, i., 86, (mas.) — Ptinus inermis, Ih. I.e., 87, (foem.) 



In Polyporus versicolor, rare. Ouseburn Dean. — T. J. B. 



Cribside and Ravensworth woods. — J. H. Morpeth.- — Mr, John 



Scott March — November, 



