rJtagus.'] SERRICORNIA. 79 



Iff . pygrmaeus, F. (Chevrolati, Stierl.). Black, shining, cylindrical, 

 narrowed behind, clothed with rather fine greyish pubescence ; head 

 convex, strongly and somewhat rngosely punctured, furrowed between 

 antennae, with a trace of a raised keel on vertex; antennae long, with 

 the second joint short, black or pitchy black; thorax narrowed in front, 

 convex, depressed towards base, with sharp posterior angles, thickly 

 and distinctly punctured, with two round impressions on middle of 

 disc, and further impressions at base ; elytra depressed at base, narrowed 

 towards apex, with the sutural stria distinct, and the dorsal striae more 

 or less evident, interstices rugosely punctured; legs slender, femora 

 pitchy, tibise and tarsi reddish. L. 3-4^ mm. 



Male with the antennae strongly pectinate ; in the female they are 

 deeply serrate. 



By sweeping fern, &c. ; very rare ; New Forest (Turner, Power, Champion, Ac.) ; 

 Stephens records it doubtfully from Norfolk. 



(Cerophytidce. This family is distinguished from all the preceding 

 by having the posterior coxae not laminate and the trochanters of the 

 middle and posterior legs very long ; it is by many authors regarded as 

 merely a tribe of the Eucnemidae, and is represented in the European 

 fauna by one genus and one species which has been recorded as British, 

 but is very doubtfully indigenous, and cannot be admitted into our lists 

 without further confirmation. 



Cerophytum, Latr. This genus comprises four or five species from 

 North America, Mexico, Cayenne, and Europe ; it is the only genus 

 belonging to the family. 



C. elateroides, L. Oblong, subcylindrical, black, finely pubescent, 

 mouth parts and antennae ferruginous ; head thickly and rugosely 

 punctured, with a fine and sharp raised keel on the fiont ; antennae 

 approximate at base, pectinate in male, serrate in female, palpi with the 

 last joint securiform ; thorax small, without antenual scrobes beneath, 

 strongly and thickly punctured ; elytra broadest behind middle, with 

 punctured striae, interstices rugosely punctured; legs reddish with tibiae 

 and tarsi lighter, posterior coxae not laminate. L. 6-7 mm. 



Once found in the neighbourhood of Bristol (West wood and Stephens) ; very 

 doubtfully indigenous.) 



This is a very large and important, nnd for the most part strongly 

 defined family ; its members are spread generally over the surface of 

 the globe, but they are more widely distributed than those of the 

 Buprestidae, a considerable proportion being found in temperate and 

 even cold countries, although the greater number of the species seem 

 to inhabit tropical climates. In the Munich catalogue, published in 

 1869, about one hundred and eighty genera and two thousand seven 

 hundred species arc enumerated, but this number has been considerably 



