Cryphalus. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 431 
punctured strie, which are effaced towards suture and moderately dis- 
tinct towards sides. L. 14-1 mm. 
In dead branches of aspen (Populus tremula) and willow; rare, or rather 
extremely local ; first taken in Britain by Mr. HE. W. Janson at Highgate; Forest 
Hill (Champion) ; Monmouthshire, very local (Chapman); Wallasey, Cheshire, one 
specimen (Ellis) ; Drinkwater Park, Manchester (Reston) ; Scarborough. 
C. granulatus, Ratz. Very closely allied to the preceding, but 
considerably larger, with the funiculus of the antenne and the legs 
partially yellow, and the strie of the elytra distinctly punctured near 
suture as well as at sides, the first two rows appearing impressed on 
their apical declivity. L. 2 mm. 
A single specimen was taken by Dr. Power in June, 1867, near Surbiton, Surrey, 
and was confirmed as this species by Herr Hichhoff. 
C. tiliz, Panz. (Ratzeburgi, Ferr.). A small species which, however, 
is variable in size ; subcylindrical, fuscous, fuscous brown or yellow- 
brown, dull, clothed with fine pale pubescence; antenne and legs 
testaceous or pitchy testaceous; thorax with the sides rounded, 
with concentric rows of small prominences on their anterior por- 
tion; elytra with fine punctured striw, which are distinct both near 
suture and at sides, often lighter than thorax, and usually lighter at 
apex ; mature specimens are brownish-black, with rows of strong grey- 
ish pubescence on the elytra ; the species is readily distinguished from 
all others found in Britain by the structure of its thorax, the tufted 
processes surmounting which are limited to the upper and anterior 
part and do not extend to the lateral margins, and are moreover sym- 
metrically arranged in four distinct rows placed in transverse curves, 
with clear intervals between them ; on the median line the absence of 
tufts produces the appearance of a smooth space connecting the outer 
spaces. L. 1-1} mm. 
On Tilia parvifolia; extremely local; Bridgenorth (Turner) ; Forest of Dean, 
Christmas, 1860 (Turner) ; neighbourhood of Lincoln in the bark of a tree ealled 
“bass” by the country people, in numbers (Turner); the locality is mentioned as 
“ Fisherwick,”’ near Lincoln, but I know of no such place; it may perhaps be 
‘‘ Fiskerton’’; the ‘“bass”’ is abundant in Langworth Wood, and I have found 
Epurea parvula, &e., in its faggots but have not come across this species. 
As remarked by Rye (Ent. Annual, 1866, p. 113), this species is 
placed by Redtenbacher in a section of the genus wherein the anterior 
margin of the thorax is armed with teeth; and, under a moderately 
high power, these teeth can be distinctly seen, assuming the form of 
four small, closely-packed, longitudinal ridges, exactly in the middle of 
the anterior margin. 
C. abietis, Ratz. (s.g. Tenioglyptes, Bedel). Oblong, subcylindrical, 
compressed and very convex; fuscous or fuscous-brown, dull, antenne 
and legs reddish-brown, club of the former usually darker, rounded at 
apex ; thorax subglobular, very finely punctured at sides and behind, 
