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volume, from which strange locality it derives the at- 

 tribute of erudition conveyed by its name. Both genus 

 and species were then new to science; and the beetle 

 has never, I believe, been found since its original capture. 



The Tomici have emarginate eyes, five joints to the 

 funiculus, and the third joint of the tarsi simple; they 

 are sometimes pubescent, and always elongate, narrow, 

 cylindrical, and more or less truncate behind, especially 

 in the male, which sex also often exhibits strong spines 

 on the edges of the truncation. They abound in larch- 

 trees, elms, etc., and their larvae resemble those of Sco- 

 lytus in miniature ; the pupae differing, however, in the 

 possession of two spines at the apex of the abdomen. 



Lastly, Platypus cylindrus (PI. XIII, Fig. 2), found 

 rarely here, and chiefly in the New Forest, departs from 

 the others (amongst other characters) in its very short 

 antennae, which have a long basal joint, a very com- 

 pressed four-jointed funiculus, and an extremely large, 

 flat, round club ; its widened and flattened front femora ; 

 very short tibiae, short hind legs, and extremely long 

 and slender tarsi, which are longer than the femora and 

 tibiae, and of which the basal joint is longer than all the 

 rest put together, and the third joint is simple. Its 

 larva, which feeds upon oak, differs from that of Scolytus 

 in being short and straight, somewhat truncate behind, 

 with a large head and several rows of tubercles on the 

 sides. 



It should be remarked that the Bostrichidce, above 

 associated with the Malacodermi, present great resem- 

 blance to certain of this family ; in which, indeed, they 

 have been placed by Latreille and other authors. But 

 in the Bostrichidte the larvae have legs, which are want- 

 ing in those of the Hylesinida ; and, although the per- 



