420 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Myelophilus. 
II. Second interstice of elytra not depressed and with 
a row of small tubercles at apex . . . . . . . M. MINOR, Hart. 
IM. piniperda, L. (testaceus, F.). Black or pitchy black, or black 
with the elytra dull red, often entirely testaceous, shining; oblong, 
subcylindrical,clothed with rather scanty pilose pubescence; head some- 
what strongly produced, distinctly punctured ; antenne ferruginous ; 
thorax near base, about as broad as, or a little broader than long, much 
narrowed and somewhat compressed in front, rather finely punctured, 
the punctuation, however, being variable in different specimens, and 
being closer and stronger at sides than on dise; scutellum rather 
large, punctured ; elytra separately and broadly rounded at base, 
with comparatively fine punctured strie, interstices punctured, some- 
what granulose at base and raised into asperate tubercles at apex, 
apex of second interstice depressed and without tubercles; legs black, 
tarsired. L, 33-4 mm. 
In decaying firs; somewhat local in England and Wales, but only too plentiful 
where it occurs ; Scotland, abundant in the bark of fir logs, Solway, Tay, Dee and 
Moray districts and probably all the others; Ireland, Cranmore and Armagh and 
most likely general. 
MM. minor, Hart. Very like the preceding, but on the average a 
little smaller (although according to Thomson it is of the same size), 
with the strie of the elytra finer and more finely punctured, and the 
interstices more closely punctured, the second not being depressed and 
being furnished with a series of small tubercles on its apical deelivity ; 
it is also distinguished by the fact that the posterior tibiz are furnished 
with a small tooth situated in the middle and a second at some dis- 
tance from the apex; in M. piniperda the first of these is situated 
behind middle; the elytra are usually brownish red. L. 33-34 
mm. 
In the bark of fir logs; very rare; Dee district, Braemar ; it probably occurs also 
in the other neighbouring districts, and may very probably be passed over as its 
near ally is so abundant that it is unnoticed by collectors. 
CISSOPHAGWUWS, Chapuis, 
This genus was formed for the reception of the small species 
formerly known as Hylurgus hedere = Hylurgus pilosus (Wat. Cat., 
Chapman, &c., nee Carphoborus pilosus, Ratz.); from Myelophilus it may 
be known by having the anterior cox rather widely separated and the 
thorax eyenly pubescent, and from Carphoborus by the six-jointed 
funiculus* of the antenne and the distinctly bilobed third joint of its 
tarsi; it may further be distinguished by having the mentum rotundate- 
ovate at base; one species only is known, which attacks the ivy, 
* Schmidt speaks of the funiculus as seven-jointed, but, as pointed out by Rye, he 
has evidently counted in the scape. 
