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transversely substrigose ; Bedel, on the other hand, expressly states that 
Rh. lignarius has all the interstices marked with a distinct series of 
punctures; the latter author also says that R. ater (chloropus) has the 
interstices almost impunctate and that in R. gracilis they are smooth or 
imperceptibly punctured ; in some examples, however, the interstices 
are certainly visibly punctured or strigose, or both; the character seems 
to vary somewhat in the same spevies; it is better therefore to keep 
R. lignarius and Rh. cylindrirostris united, as they are otherwise virtually 
identical. 
CAULOTRYPIS, Wollaston. 
The old genus Phlaophagus, as it has hitherto stood in the British 
catalogues, has included the two species P. wneopiceus. and P. spadix, 
which have been distinguished from Rhyncolus and Stereocorynes by the 
rather longer seape and more elongate second joint of the funiculus of 
the antenne, and from Cossonus and Rhopalomesites by the less distant 
anterior cox ; the absence of the scutellum, however, is a much better 
character on which to separate them; our two British species have been 
placed by M. Bedel in the genera Cawlotrypis and Codiosoma respec- 
tively; the latter genus he has formed to receive P. spadix which may 
be easily separated from the present genus by the shape of the meta- 
thoracic episterna and especially by the presence of pale hairs on the 
upper surface of the elytra. 
The genus Phleophagus, as constituted in the Munich catalogue, con- 
tains thirty species which are very widely distributed, representatives 
occurring in the Canaries, the Azores, Madeira, Ceylon, St. Vincent, 
Algeria, South Africa, Mexico, New Caledonia, &c. 
C. wzneopiceus, Boh. Pitchy brown, shining, with a slight bronze 
reflection, antenne and legs red, the former rather slender, with the club 
ovate ; rostrum broad and robust, longer than broad, finely and closely 
punctured; thorax longer than broad, nearly oval, with sides broadest 
about middle, moderately strongly and not very closely punctured, not 
constricted before anterior angles; scutellum invisible; elytra subparallel, 
scarcely dilated at sides, with punctured strie, interstices minutely 
punctured and transversely strigose. LL. 3 mm. 
In rotten wood of old wine casks, o]d posts, &c. ; local, but common where it occurs ; 
London district ; St. Margaret’s Bay, Deal; Plymouth; Ifracombe ; Fowey; Fal- 
mouth (abundant, J. J. Walker) ; Barmouth, under ivy bark (Chappell) ; Dr. Power 
has taken it in his cellar in Burton Crescent, St. Pancras, London. 
CODIOSOMA, Bedel. 
This newly-formed genus differs from the preceding, as has been 
above pointed out, by the presence of light hairs on the elytra and also 
by the fact that the metathoracic episterna are indistinct, whereas in 
Caulotrypis they are well marked ; the single species is extremely local 
