78 SBRRICORNIA. [Eucnemit. 



ventral aspects of the segments peculiar velvety patches, and behind 

 each of these a small stigma like cavity ; it possesses no rudiments of 

 legs and no ocelli, and the mouth, palpi, and antennae are rudimentary 

 and scarcely traceable ; the segments are much incised, so that the 

 outline is very undulatory; Dr. Sharp says regarding it (I.e. p. 301), 

 " The larva of Eucnemis capucina has certainly the capacity of com- 

 minuting the decayed wet wood in which it lives, and I presume that 

 it makes its burrows by a process of this kind, though I have not been 

 able to observe how it does it ; it is exceedingly slow in all its move- 

 ments, and I think it is most probably by twisting and pushing a little 

 with its head that it makes its burrows ; the peculiar very hard saw- 

 like teeth with which the whole front margin of the head is armed 

 appear admirably adapted for this purpose. I only found larvae in the 

 sappy or damp wood in the interior of the tree; the outer wood was 

 dry and comparatively hard, and was penetrated in all directions by the 

 burrows of former generations of the larvae ; and it was in this com- 

 paratively hard outer wood that we found the perfect insects." 



E. capucina, Ahr. Elongate oval, subcylindrical, black, shining, 

 clothed with silky greyish pubescence, which is not very apparent ; 

 head convex, rather finely and thickly punctured, with a raised carina 

 extending from front to base, antennas entirely received in epipleural 

 grooves of the thorax, pitchy brown, serrate, with the first and third 

 joints elongate, and the second joint very small ; thorax narrowed in 

 front, depressed at base, basal margin sinuate on each side near posterior 

 angles, upper surface distinctly punctured ; scutellum semicircular, 

 situated in a strong depression at base of elytra ; elytra gradually 

 narrowed behind, rounded at apex, irregularly and distinctly punctured, 

 but without a trace of striae ; legs strongly retractile, pitchy red, with 

 tarsi lighter. L. 4-5| mm. 



In an old beech tree near Brockenhnrst, New Forest ; taken in some numbers by 

 Dr. Sharp, Mr. Champion, and the Rev. H. S. Gorham on June 13th, 1886 ; it has 

 not occurred, I believe, since ; the capture is most interesting as showing that we 

 have by no means exhausted all possible discoveries of further indigenous Goleoptera, 

 when a locality that has been so much worked as the New Forest by Turner aud 

 others is found to yield so important a species. 



IKXCRORRKACrUS, Eschscholtz. (Dirrhagus, Latreille.) 



This genus is one of the most extensive of the Eucnemidae, contain- 

 ing, as it does, about sixty species ; ten of these are found in Europe, 

 and the remainder occur chiefly in North, Central, and South America 

 and the Malay Peninsula ; one or two species have been described from 

 Ceylon ; our single British species may be easily known from those 

 belonging to the two preceding genera by its much longer antennae, 

 which are contiguous at base, and delicately pectinate in the male. 



