Cissophagus. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 421] 
forming galleries under the bark; it is found in England, France, 
Italy and Algeria ; the species has been found in some numbers by 
Dr. Chapman attacking stems of ivy, in which the parent beetles make 
a burrow, and the larve, as in the case of Hylesinus fraxini, eat 
galleries at right angles to this; neither healthy twining ivy, nor 
faggots cut from the tree, suit its taste, but when sickly or dying, it 
is at once attacked ; in many parts of the country a custom prevails 
of destroying ivy by cutting through the stem; the plant, which 
partly derives its sustenance as a parasite from the tree to which it 
clings, is not immediately killed, but usually survives for a year or 
two; in this state it seems to be especially subject to the attacks of 
the beetles. 
C. hederz, Schmidt (vicinus, Com.). Cylindrical, brownish, with 
the antenne, legs, anterior portion of the thorax, and the elytra, 
reddish or ferruginous ; pubescence close, yellowish brown, which is, 
in ‘consequence, the general colour of the insect ; thorax at least as 
long as broad, with the sides subparallel behind and slightly narrowed 
in front, covered with recumbent hairs, very closely sculptured, with a 
slightly raised central line ; elytra very slightly broader behind middle, 
with distinct and rather strongly punctured strie (the punctures being 
quadrangular), interstices finely and closely granulate, thickly covered 
with hairs and furnished besides with a row of larger raised setose 
hairs, which are plainly visible in certain lights; the elytra are, 
apparently, nearly always lighter than the posterior portion of the 
thorax. L. 2-25 mm. 
In decaying ivy; extremely local and, as a rule, rare; Dartford and St. Mary 
Cray, Kent (Champion); Lyne near Rusper (Horsham, Sussex) (Gorham); Plymouth 
(J. J. Walker) ;; Monmouthshire, very local (Chapman); Barmouth and Dunham 
Park, Manchester (Chappell); Scarborough (Lawson). 
XYLECHINUS, Chapuis (Carphoborus, Brit. Cat., nec Eichhoff), 
This genus appears to be represented by one European and two North 
American species; they may be known by their small size, widely 
separated intermediate and posterior coxe, 5-jointed funiculus, and ovate- 
globose scarcely compressed club of the antenne ; the thorax is evenly 
pubescent ; the eyes are very slightly emarginate in the middle of their 
inner margin; the tibize, especially the anterior ones, are armed with a 
long sharp apical spine, and the first segment of the abdomen is furnished 
with a transverse process between the posterior coxe ; the third joint of 
the tarsi is simply cordate and the mentum is cordiform., 
X. pilosus, Ratz. Oblong, subcylindrical, dull, clothed with thick 
greyish pubescence, black, with the antenne and legs ferruginous or 
testaceous ; the thorax appears to be often lighter than the head and the 
elytra than the thorax ; thorax as long as broad, slightly narrowed at 
