Cartliophorus.] SERRICOHNIA. 85 



clothed with very scanty greyish pubescence; head finely punctured, 

 antennae black ; thorax as long as broad, convex, narrowed in front, 

 finely and thickly punctured, under-side with a longitudinal black 

 streak in the middle ; elytra with punctured striae, interstices finely 

 and thickly punctured; legs black, apex of tibia;, claws, and more or less 

 of tarsi, reddish. L. 7 mm. 



Stephens gives the following record of this insect, which is remarkable, as it has 

 certainly Hot been taken for very many years: "Rare, but widely distributed, 

 iKvurring within the metropolitan district, in Norfolk, Somersetshire, Ac. ; Baron 

 Wood, ('innbirl)ind, T. C. Heysham, Esq.; Windsor, Dr. Leach ; New Forest, 

 L. liudd, Esq. ; Colliugbourne Wood, Rev. U. T. Rudd." 



C. rufipeg, Fourc. Somewhat depressed, black, tipper surface 

 el >t lied with very fine blackish pubescence ; head thickly and rather 

 finely punctured, antennae lunger in male than in female, black; thorax, 

 as a rule, longer than broad, broadest in middle, very finely and thickly 

 punctured ; elytra a little broader than thorax, with strong punctured 

 stria 1 , interstices convex, punctured; femora and tibiae reddish-tes- 

 taceous, tarsi pitchy, the base of each joint and the claws being red. 

 L. 5i-Gi mm. 



A single specimen wns found by Mr. John Dunsmore in 1875 by sweeping rank 

 grasses at Corkrndale Law, the highest peak in Renfrewshire, about six miles from 

 Paisley. Dr. Sharp, however, considers that further captures must be made before 

 the species can be considered a native one.) 



CRYPTOHYPNTTS, Eschscholtz. 



This genus is more characteristic of temperate and northern countries 

 than perhaps any other genus belonging to the family ; it con tains about 

 seventy species, very few of which occur in tropical climates, although 

 four or five have been described from Eurmah, Borneo, Java, Para, 

 Ac. ; the northern range of the genus, however, is very wide, as it 

 stretches across Northern Europe and Siberia to Kamtschatka and 

 Alaska, and is probably generally distributed over the northern hemi- 

 sphere. The species vary considerably in size and appearance, ami 

 Thomson divides them into thiee genera, OryptokypmUi Xeyastrius, and 

 ''<r'.--, tin- first of which he classes with the Klati rin.i, and the two 

 last with the Cardiophorina ; the genus as a whole may be known by 

 the spiniform posterior angles of thorax, and by the c-aiini of the same 

 .inch's lieing large ami distinct and parallel to the side margin. Twenty - 

 seven species are found in Europe, of which six occur in Britain ; 

 these may be divided as follows: 



I. Thorax with the rarinu* of the posterior angles 



ceasing before middle ; size larger, 

 i. Thorax hliorttT, not rugo*e; elytra nnieoloroui>. 

 1 l'p|icr Mirfatv and \, $ black; size mnallcr; 

 first joint of antennae rhorter than thiid joint C. MARlTlMfti, Curt. 



