HOPLOPHORA STRICULA. 563 



it is usually rather decayed wood wliicli it selects. It 

 is extremely common and generally distributed. It 

 has been recorded in France, Germany, Switzerland, 

 and probably in Italy. 



HoPLOPHORA STRICULA,* KocJl. PI. LI, fig. 7. 



Hoplophora siricula, Koch. Heft 2, fig. 10. 



- — Nic. P. 472, pi. X, fig. 5. 



— — Haller. P. 307. 



Average length about "52 mm. 

 Average breadth about •28 mm. 

 Average depth, from dorsal to ventral surface, about 

 •24 mm. 



Average length of legs (first pair) about '13 mm. 



Colour light pinkish fawn-colour. Legs rather 

 darker and redder. 



Texture dull, semi-transparent ; chitin very thin and 

 brittle ; strongly pitted, pits about 100 to the milli- 

 metre. 



Cephalothorax rather short, rounded anteriorly, 

 moderately deep in the arch ; without any carina, 

 pitted ; rostral portion curved ; a pair of hairs on the 

 curve may be considered the rostral hairs ; posterior 

 portion almost straight, iu median outline, and bearing 

 a few longitudinal curved ridges at its hinder part. 

 Pseudo-stigmata fairly large, but placed far back ; the 

 pseudo-stigmatic organs long, the same shape as those 

 of H. magna, i. e. sickle-shaped, there being short 

 straight pieces where they issue from the pseudo-stig- 

 mata, after this they curve sharply and suddenly, at 

 first forward and upward, but the distal portions back- 

 ward and downward (they being more than a semi- 

 circle). Interlamellar hairs short, rod-like, placed far 

 back. 



* Striculus, a stripling. 



