50 HETEROMERA. [ Pytho. 
tured striz on each, which do not reach base or apex; a considerable 
space at base is smooth or slightly punctured and shining ; legs rather 
long. L. 9-13 mm. 
Male with the three first joints of the anterior tarsi dilated and 
pubescent beneath, and with part of the sixth ventral segment visible. 
Under bark of Scotch fir ; very local; Scotland, Highlands, Tay and Dee districts, 
Rannoch and Aviemore. 
SALPINGINA. 
The members of this tribe are small, but in some eases brightly coloured 
and rather conspicuous insects ; they may be known by the absence of 
the trochantin of the intermediate cox, and the fact that the side 
pieces of the mesosternum do not reach the cox ; the genus Rhinosimus 
has the head produced into a strong rostrum ; our three genera may be 
distinguished as follows :-— 
ih sttene not produced into a distinct rostrum. 
. Antennze with the three last joints forming a less distinct 
club, eighth joint as large as, or not much smaller sae 
ii ie thorax with sides not denticulate . . . . SALpineus, Gyll. 
. Antenne with the last three joints forming a more dis- 
"ane club, eighth joint much smaller than ninth ; thorax 
with sides finely denticulate. 9. . .. «+. . ~ » JTS8ODEMA, Curz,. 
II. Head produced into a strong rostrum . . . . . . . Rurnosimus, Latr. 
SALPINGUS, Gyllenhal. 
About twenty species are contained in this genus, nine of which 
are found in Europe, and the remainder in Algeria, Madeira, Madagas- 
car, North America, Chili, &c. ; the head is produced in front, but can- 
not be called rostrate, although some authors say of the species “ caput 
rostro brevi;” the antennz are somewhat variable, the club being more 
distinct in some species than in others; the thorax is cordiform, much 
narrower at base than the elytra, which are square at the shoulders 
and rounded at apex, and completely cover the abdomen ; the legs are 
moderate; four species have, until quite recently, been regarded as 
British, but a fifth, 8. muti/atus, has lately been added by Mr. G. C. 
Champion; it appears to be very hard to distinguish satisfactorily 
between S. ater and S. eratus, and, as far as our collections are con- 
cerned, the two species seem to have been entirely confused ; the value 
of the impressions on the thorax as a distinguishing character appears 
to be in several cases very small; our species may be roughly separated 
as follows :— 
ile ant cae short and not exserted; labrum short. 
. Size larger ; colour castaneous ; reflexed margin 
of ely tra narrow from the apex of ‘the third ventral 
segment. . . - §. CASTANEUS, Panz. 
ii, Size smaller ; colour “black or bronze; reflexed 
