92 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford on the 
TABLE OF SPECIES. 
1, Prothorax gradually and uniformly rounded from basetoapex 2 
cylindrical at base with apex obliquely declivous 
(Taphrorychus, Hichh.) . . . . eee 6 
2. Apex of elytra retuse, impressed or flattened (size 2. 5m 4mm) 3 
convex (size under 2°5 mm.) 5 
4 
3. Front of head not carinate 7 Py oily Webs 
with a sharp loneriuaole carina . . . afinis. 
4, Strivz of elytrafinely and uniformly punctured, autographus, Ratz. 
coarsely punctured, seein 3 dilated behind 
base: 0.7 <2 kts, ie pum NO RNs ESPUILORDER: 
5. Elytra with strongly punctured eee ser. hl Sy cet ene OBIE 
rows of feeble punctures. . . . . . . mubilus. 
6. Prothorax rounded at apex .. . : gos, wOeRIIE. 
subquadrate, the apex perce: forming an angle 
with sides’. “< 2 5 ue e ek <i 
“J 
. Interstices of elytra not elevated towered apex . dinoderoides, 
sub-costate towards apex, apatoides, Eichh. 
Dryocetes autographus, Ratz. 
Ratz., Forst. Ins., 1., p. 160. 
Hichh., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1864, p. 39 ; Rat. Tom., p. 281. 
Two examples, Chiuzenji. 
The elytra are almost hairless in these specimens and 
very evidently retuse at apex, with the interstitial 
punctures almost obsolete; but they are quite like 
German specimens in my collection. ‘he species, which 
extends throughout N. Asia and the colder parts of N. 
America, is of variable form. 
Dryocetes pilosus, sp. 0. 
Oblongus, subnitidus, longe pilosus, piceo-niger, antennis 
pedibusque ferrugineis, fronte plana haud carinata; prothorace 
dense granulato exasperato ; elytris prothorace dimidio longioribus, 
transverse rugosis, fortiter punctato-striatis, punctis postice 
subtilioribus, stria suturali subimpressa, interstitiis subtiliter 
uniseriatim punctatis, apice retuso impresso, striis fere obso- 
letis, pilis longis cireumdato. Long. 3 mm. 
One example, Nikko. 
Oblong, pitchy-black, head with front flat, dull, finely punctured, 
and with a faint transverse impression at sides, with long scattered 
hairs, mouth fringed. Prothorax a trifle broader than long, base 
