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discussed above (pp. 426, 427), and may perhaps have to be adopted ; 
the differences, however, appear to be very slight as given by Liéwendal 
in the second part of his paper; after giving a description he writes as 
follows :—-“ Cum hae specie que ad similitudinem Dryocetw coryli 
(mihi ignoti) proxime aceedere videtur, characteres generis Dryocete, qui 
a scriptoribus afferuntur, mimime congruunt ; differt enim nova hxc 
species et clava plane integra et quinto articulo funiculi variante, sepe 
evanido, et diversa prothoracis sculptura. 
“ Quare non potui quin novum genus constituerem. 
“ Quodsi postea apparuerit, hoc genus a genere Dryocestarum distingui 
non posse, necesse erit characteres generis Dryoczte aliter definire, 
“Ne deseriptiones quidem speciei, que appellatur corylt, quas Perris 
et Eichhoff confecerunt, inter se plane concinunt, et haud scio an illi 
diversas species ante oculos habuerint.” 
It is therefore quite obvious, as Mr, Blandford remarks in a note to me 
in which he kindly furnished me with the above quotation, that Liwen- 
dal is not sure that his species is distinct from D. coryli, and it is 
therefore hardly safe at present to say that his genus Lymantor contains 
two distinet species. 
D. autographus, Ratz. (septentrionis, Mannh.), Oblong, cylin- 
drical, shining, clothed with long pale villose pubescence, of a uniform 
reddish brown colour, antenne and legs reddish-testaceous or clear red ; 
thorax longer than broad, with the sides very slightly rounded and 
gently and slightly narrowed in front, closely and rather strongly punc- 
tured, the sculpture being close and slightly rough on the anterior 
margin which is dull; occasionally there are feeble traces of a central 
line; scutellum distinct ; elytra parallel-sided, with strong punctured 
strie, interstices distinctly punctured in rows, apex entire, sutural striz 
not impressed or sulcate ; legs rather stout. L. 31-4 mm. 
Under bark of stumps and dead trunks of firs; taken in some numbers by Mr. 
Lawson near Scarborough, who first found it in the beginning of April, 1869, in 
some young larch trees in a fir plantation about a mile and a half from that town ; 
from the appearance of the trees it must have been very abundant in the previous 
year. 
D. villosus, F. Smaller than the preceding, and clothed with 
longer and stouter hairs ; oblong, rather shining, covered with very long 
pale villose pubescence, which will easily distinguish the species; of a 
uniform reddish-brown colour, antenne and legs red or reddish-testaceous : 
thorax longer than broad, very closely shagreened or granulately pune- 
tured (Thomson calls the sculpture “imbricate-punctuate ’ ’), the anterior 
portion being rougher and duller than the posterior, sides rounded and 
gradually narrowed in front ; scutellum distinct ; elytra with rather deep 
and strongly punctured strie, interstices narrow with rows of somewhat 
strong punctures, apex somewhat inflexed, sutural striw suleate behind 
