78 SERRICORNIA. [ Hucnemis. 
ventral aspects of the segments peculiar velvety patches, and behind 
each of these a small stigma like cavity; it possesses no rudiments of 
legs and no ocelli, and the mouth, palpi, and antenne are rudimentary 
and scarcely traceable; the segments are much incised, so that the 
outline is very undulatory ; Dr. Sharp says regarding it (l.c. p. 301), 
“The larva of Hucnemis capucina has certainly the capacity of com- 
minuting the decayed wet wood in which it lives, and I presume that 
it makes its burrows bya process of this kind, though I have not been 
able to observe how it does it; it is exceedingly slow in all its move- 
ments, and I think it is most probably by twisting and pushing a little 
with its head that it makes its burrows; the peculiar very hard saw- 
like teeth with which the whole front margin of the head is armed 
appear admirably adapted for this purpose. I only found larve in the 
sappy or damp wood in the interior of the tree; the outer wood was 
dry and comparatively hard, and was penetrated in all directions by the 
burrows of former generations of the larve; and it was in this com- 
paratively hard outer wood that we found the perfect insects.” 
E. capucina, Ahr. Elongate oval, subcylindrical, black, shining, 
clothed with silky greyish pubescence, which is not very apparent ; 
head convex, rather finely and thickly punctured, with a raised carina 
extending from front to base, antenne entirely received in epipleural 
grooves of the thorax, pitchy brown, serrate, with the first and third 
joints elongate, and the second joint very small; thorax narrowed in 
front, depressed at base, basal margin sinuate on each side near posterior 
angles, upper surface distinctly punctured; scutellum semicircular, 
situated in a strong depression at base of elytra; elytra gradually 
narrowed behind, rounded at apex, irregularly and distinetly punctured, 
but without a trace of striz; legs strongly retractile, pitchy red, with 
tarsi lighter. L. 4-55 mm. 
Tn an old beech tree near Brockenhurst, New Forest ; taken in some numbers by 
Dr. Sharp, Mr. Champion, and the Rev. H. 8S. Gorham on June 13th, 1886; it has 
not occurred, I believe, since; the capture is most interesting as showing that we 
have by no means exhausted all possible discoveries of further indigenous Coleoptera, 
when a locality that has been so much worked as the New Forest by Turner and 
others is found to yield so important a species. 
MICRORRHAGUS, Eschscholtz. (Dirrhagus, Latreille.) 
This genus is one of the most extensive of the Eucnemide, contain- 
ing, as it does, about sixty species ; ten of these are found in Europe, 
and the remainder occur chiefly in North, Central, and South America 
and the Malay Peninsula; one or two species have been described from 
Ceylon; our single British species may be easily known from those 
belonging to the two preceding genera by its much longer antennae, 
which are contiguous at base, and delicately pectinate in the male. 
