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jvints gradually diminishing in size, and the labrum is indistinct; in 
the Scolytide, in which the formation of the maxillary palpi is much 
the same as in the Curculionidae, the labrum is sometimes distinct, but 
in this case the legs are nearly always more or less fossorial ; from the 
Platyrrhinide the present family is distinguished by the long loose elub 
of the antenna, the more developed rostrum, which has no scrobes, the 
conical anterior coxe, the completely covered pygidium, and the equal 
length of the segments of the abdomen. 
Of the three genera Nemonyx, Dedycorrhyncus and Rhinomacer, the 
last only is found in Britain; from the first of these genera it may be 
distinguished by its simple tarsal claws, and from the second by the 
absence of epipleure and the very strongly developed labrum. 
RHINOMACER, Fabricius (Cimberis, Des Gozis). 
This genus contains four species, one of which oceurs in Europe and 
the other three in North America; they are found on the male blossoms 
(chatons) of the pine, in which the female lays its eggs; they are rather 
long, slender insects, and bear a resemblance to some of the narrower 
species of Rhynchites ; some modern authors apply the name of Cimberis 
to the genus, and assign the name Rhinomacer to Byctiscus ; this, how- 
ever, causes considerable confusion. 
R. attelaboides, F. Elongated, brassy-black, thickly clothed with 
long ashy or yellowish pubescence, antenne and legs red, tarsi more or 
less fuscous ; rostrum dilated at apex, antenne long and slender, with 
very gradual three-jointed club; eyes prominent; thorax at least as 
long as broad, subcylindrical; elytra long, somewhat depressed, parallel- 
sided, considerably broader at base than thorax, closely and distinctly 
punctured ; legs long. L. 33-5 mm. 
Male with the anterior tibiz evidently curved on their inner side, and 
the last four joints of the antenne with white pubescence ; abdomen 
without special fringes of hair. 
Female with the anterior tibie almost straight, and the third and 
fourth ventral segments of abdomen furnished in middle with a row of 
thick yellow hairs. 
On Scotch fir ; very local, and apparently confined to the north of England and 
Scotland; Studley Park, Ripon (Waterhouse) ; Carlisle (Heysham) ; Scotland, local, 
Solway, Tweed, Forth, Tay, Dee and Moray districts (Moftiat, Alvie, Braemar, 
Aviemore, Inverness, &c.). 
CURCULIONIDZ. 
This family contains by far the majority of the Rhynchophora ; its 
members may be distinguished from those of the two preceding families 
by the formation of the maxillary palpi, which are short, rigid and 
conieal ; the more or less strongly developed rostrum will distinguish 
them from the Scolytide, from which, moreover, they differ in the fact 
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