Microrrhagus. | SERRICORNIA. 79 
M. pygmeus, F. (Chevrolati, Stierl.). Black, shining, cylindrical, 
narrowed behind, clothed with rather fine greyish pubescence ; head 
convex, strongly and somewhat rugosely punctured, furrowed between 
antenn, with a trace of a raised keel on vertex; antenne long, with 
the second joint short, black or pitchy black; thorax narrowed in front, 
convex, depressed towards base, with sharp posterior angles, thickly 
and distinctly punctured, with two round impressions on middle of 
disc, and further impressions at base ; elytra depressed at base, narrowed 
towards apex, with the sutural stria distinct, and the dorsal strie more 
or less evident, interstices rugosely punctured ; legs slender, femora 
pitchy, tibiz and tarsi reddish. L. 3-41 mm. 
Male with the antenne strongly pectinate; in the female they are 
deeply serrate. 
By sweeping fern, &c.; very rare ; New Forest (Turner, Power, Champion, &c.) ; 
Stephens records it doubtfully from Norfolk. 
(Cerophytide. This family is distinguished from all the preceding 
by having the posterior coxee not laminate and the trochanters of the 
middle and posterior legs very long ; it is by many authors regarded as 
merely a tribe of the Euenemide, and is represented in the European 
fauna by one genus and one species which has been recorded as British, 
but is very doubtfully indigenous, and cannot be admitted into our lists 
without further confirmation. 
Cerophytum, Latr. This genus comprises four or five species from 
North America, Mexico, Cayenne, and Europe ; it is the only genus 
belong:ng to the family. 
C. elateroides, L. Oblong, subcylindrical, black, finely pubescent, 
mouth parts and antenne ferruginous ; head thickly and rugosely 
punctured, with a fine and sharp raised keel on the front; antenne 
approximate at base, pectinate in male, serrate in female, palpi with the 
last joint securiform ; thorax small, without antennal scrobes beneath, 
strongly and thickly punctured; elytra broadest behind middle, with 
punctured striz, interstices rugosely punctured; legs reddish with tibix 
and tarsi lighter, posterior coxe not laminate. LL. 6-7 mm. 
Once found in the neighbourhood of Bristol (Westwood and Stephens) ; very 
doubtfully indigenous.) 
ELATERIDE, 
This is a very large and important, and for the most part strongly 
defined family ; its members are spread generally over the surface of 
the globe, but they are more widely distributed than those of the 
Buprestide, a considerable proportion being found in temperate and 
even cold countries, although the greater number of the species seem 
to inhabit tropical climates. In the Munich catalogue, published in 
1869, about one handred and eighty genera and two thousand seven 
hundred species are enumerated, but this number has been considerably 
