432 RHYNCHOPHORA. [Cryphalus. 
front part confusedly granulate ; elytra rather more than double as 
long as thorax, with distinct punctured striz, and extremely finely 
punctured interstices, covered throughout with extremely short scale- 
like hairs, and also very diffusely with short erect hairs, which are 
wanting behind ; the colour of the antenne and legs is somewhat vari- 
able; the species may easily be recognized by the tubercles on the 
anterior portion of the thorax being few in number and irregular in their 
distribution, and by the regular and comparatively strong rows of punc- 
tures and very short pubescence of the elytra. L. 1-23 mm. 
In dead shoots of the Scotch fir; rare; West Wickham Wood (Champion) ; 
Cowfold (Power); Shipley, near Horsham, Sussex (Gorham) ; Monmouthshire 
(Chapman); Gumley, Leicestershire (where it was first taken in Britain by the 
Rev. A. Matthews); Bungay, Suffolk (W. Garneys) ; Bretby Wood, near Repton, 
Burton-on-Trent (W. Garneys). 
C. picex, Ratz. (s.g. Tenioglyptes, Bedel). Very closely allied to 
the preceding from which it may be known by having the club of the 
antenne acuminate at apex, and the thorax furnished with five or six 
crowded rows of granules forming a tolerably broad diamond-shaped 
figure ; the elytra, moreover, are furnished with long raised hairs and 
the striz are very finely punctured. L. 1} mm. 
Under bark of firs; very rare; two specimens have been taken by the Rev. A. 
Matthews, near Weston-on-the-Green, Oxon; Claygate, Esher, one specimen 
(Power). 
c. fagi, Nord. (Thomsont, Ferr., s.g., Hrnoporus, Thoms.). Elon- 
gate, cylindrical, rather thickly clothed with pale ashy subsquamose 
pubescence, black or fuscous black, dull or very slightly shiny, 
antenne and legs red or reddish-testaceous, club of former rather 
darker ; thorax longer than broad, scabrous and more or less plainly 
tuberculate in front, the tubereulate portion scarcely reaching middle ; 
elytra three times as long as broad, very closely and finely punctured, 
without strie, or with traces visible at the sides only; tibie narrow; 
the elongate form and the seuipture of the thorax and elytra will easily 
distinguish the species. L. 14-1} mm. 
In decaying beeches ; rare ; Hampstead (Janson) ; Tonbridge (Horner); Wester- 
ham, Kent (Gorham) ; New Forest. 
PITYOPHTHORWS, Lichhoff. 
About thirty species are contained in this genus, which are all very 
small insects, and live exclusively on Conifer; the majority are found 
in North and South America; five or six occur in Europe of which one 
only, P. micrographus, has hitherto been supposed to inhabit Britain ; it 
seems, however, to be now proved that this species has not, as yet, 
occurred at all in our country (although it most probably will be found 
to be indigenous), and that our specimens must be referred to two 
