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hinder portion paler; abdomen not wider than the base of the 

 thorax, and of about the same degree of convexity, pale fusco- 

 ferruginous, with some scattered darker specks, thickly clothed 

 with testaceo-cinerous scales, and regularly and distinctly striate, 

 the interstices not elevated, with a short, stiff, griseous, some- 

 what scanty pubescence, body beneath black, shining, thickly and 

 closely punctate; legs ferruginous, the thighs slightly fuscescent. 

 Length | line. 



This does not quite agree with Stephens's and Marsham's 

 descriptions, particularly where it is stated that the insect is 

 "totus villis cinereis vestitus." Some of the incongruities may 

 arise from the defective state of my specimens. The name I had 

 attached to them was H. pumilio. 



Two dead specimens, under the bark of elm paling, in a haugh, 

 opposite to the monument at Gibside. — J. H. 



310. Trypodendron, Stephens. 

 1. T. DOMESTICUM, Linii. 



Stejoh. Illust., Mand., iii., 354. 

 Rather abundant, under the bark of felled beeches, in a state of 

 partial decay, in a small angle of wood on the south bank of the 

 Derwent, nearly opposite to Axwell Spa Well. Two specimens have 

 also occurred in the Eavensworth woods, one of which was found 

 beneath the bark of a rotten branch of oak. The wood of the 

 beeches was perforated with holes, resembling those of iltie Anohia, 

 which were probably formed by this insect. — J, II. January — 

 March. 



311. ToMicus, Latreille. 

 1. T. BiDENs, Fah. 



Stepli. Illust., Mand., iii., 357. 



Under bark of Scotch pine, and larch, particularly in the small 

 juicy branches; Gosforth and Gibside. — T. J. B. Between 

 Gibside and Winlaton Mill, on the south side of the Derwent. — 

 J. H. May — August. 



In addition to the pair of large decurved teeth, on the upper 

 edge of the excavation, at the tip of the elytra in the male, there 

 are two blunt teet-l^ towards the apex, and on the sharp border of 



