436 RHYNCHOPHORA. [Xylocleptes. 
Wootton ; Bath, in profusion by beating clematis; Monmouthshire and Hereford- 
shire ; Malvern; Sutton, near Birmingham; Robin’s Wood, Repton, near Burton-on- 
Trent. I know of no localities further north. 
DRYOCETES, Eichhoft. 
This genus contains about a dozen or thirteen species which are widely 
distributed; six or seven of these occur in Europe and the remainder 
inhabit North and South America from Alaska to Brazil; one or two 
have been described from India; Eichhoff has separated off D. bicolor, 
Herbst., and D, villifrons, Duft., as a distinct genus Taphrorychus ; the 
species, with the exception of D. villosus, are extremely scarce ; the chief 
character that has been used in distinguishing the species lies in the 
sculpture of the hinder part of the thorax, but as a matter of fact it is 
often very difficult to make out whether it is closely punctured or granu- 
late, and this is proved by authors often using directly opposite terms 
in speaking of the same species ; thus in two descriptions before me, one 
author says of the common D. villosus, “ thorax punctured throughout,” 
while the other partly distinguishes it from D. autographus by the fact 
that the thorax is shagreened towards the base, whereas in the last- 
named species it is punctured. 
The genus may be distinguished by having the prosternum furnished 
with a sharp and distinet angular process between the anterior cox and 
the elytra not excavate at apex which is applied to the abdomen; the 
scutellum is distinct and the base of the thorax is not bordered ; the 
club of the antenne has the sutures straight and the funiculus is five- 
jointed ; the tibize are more or less dilated; the thorax is usually 
scabrous in front but not strongly so, and the elytra are furnished with 
rows of punctures which are sometimes very regular and placed in 
impressed strize and sometimes more or less irregular with the striz 
scarcely marked. 
I. Upper surface with long villose pubescence ; form 
broader; length 23-4 mm. 
. Sutural strie of “elytrn not deeply impressed ; 
amet not raised; size larger . D. AUTOGRAPHUS, Ratz. 
. Sutural striz of elytra deeply impressed and sulci- 
Reset behind; suture raised; sizesmaller . . . D. VILLosvs, F. 
Il, Upper surface with comparatively short and much 
less distinct pubescence ; form narrower; length 
13-24 mm. 
i. Thorax granulate in front, granulately sculptured 
and dull behind ; elytra with distinct strie, and the 
interstices more finely punctured than the striae . D. ALNI, Georg. 
(Marshami, Rye). 
ii. Thorax granulate in front, rather diffusely and 
very distinctly punctured behind; elytra uni- 
formly punctured without distinct strie . . . . D. CoRyYLI, Perris. 
The last mentioned species appears to be very probably synonymous 
with the Lymantor sepicola of Lowendal ; the genus Lymantor has been 
