Ochina.] SEEUICORNIA. 195 



In old ivy ; occasionally by sweeping ; local ; London district, not uncommon and 

 prill-rally distributed ; St. Peters ; Pegwell Bay ; Deal ; Hastings ; New Forest ; 

 (Jlimvilles Wootton ; Devon; Monmouthshire; Llangollcn ; Bnnnouth ; Trench 

 Woods; Knowlc, near Birmingham ; Repton ; Dunham Park, Manchester; Northum- 

 berland district, not uncommon about Gilsland and Lanercost ; Scotland, very 

 rare, Dee district, found near Arbroath by Mr. Hislop ; Ireland, near Dublin and 

 \Vatcrford. 



XYLETINUS, Latreille. 



This genus cannot be confused with any other by reason of its short 

 broad form, strongly serrate antennae, and strong elytral striae ; it con- 

 tains between thirty and forty species, of which twelve are found in 

 Europe, and the remainder are very widely distributed, having been 

 described from Siberia, North and South America, the Canary Islands, 

 Ascension Island, and North Africa; our single British species is very 

 seldom met with. 



X. ater, Panz. (terrains, Panz.; Sfernoplus afer, Muls.). Oblong 

 ovate, rather short and broad, black, dull, clothed with extremely fine 

 greyish pubescence; head large and broad, with eyes prominent, antennae 

 moderately long, black, with base red, strongly serrate; thorax broader 

 than long, as broad at base as elytra, strongly narrowed in front, very 

 finely sculptured ; scutellum rounded behind ; elytra broad, subparallel 

 or with sides feebly rounded, with strong but rather feebly punctured 

 striae ; interstices very finely rugose ; legs rather robust, femora black, 

 tibiae and tarsi red. L. 2-4 mm. 



Male with the antennae more strongly serrate than in the female ; 

 female larger than the male, with the last ventral segment of the abdomen 

 furnished with two granules which are distant from one another. 



In decayed wood ; rare; Charlton, Kent (Janson) ; Cobham( Stephens) ; Tonbridge 

 (Homer); Ascot Heath, on old fence (S.Stevens); Cowfold (Power) ; Mickleham ; 

 Hertford ; Shipley, near Horchain, and Rnsper (Gorhaui) ; Spitcbwick, Devon, in 

 moss (Leach); Newark -on-Trent (Hadfield); in the latter locality it has occurred 

 not uncommonly on old palings. 



XiASXODE&MA, Stephens. 



This genus contains about a dozen species, which are mostly found in 

 Kunipe; one or two, however, have been described from North America; 

 they may be known by their finely, but distinctly, serrate antenna-, 

 coupled with the fact that the elytra are not striated ; one species is 

 reputed to be British, but it is almost certainly an importation. 



It. Berricorne, F. (testaceum, Duft.). Oval, convex, short and 

 broad, of a ferrugino-testaceous colour, rather shining, clothed with fine 

 greyish pubescence ; head large and broad, dci-ply sunk in thorax, 

 antennae yellowish-red, with the first joint much enlarged, finely but 

 very distinctly serrate ; thorax much broader than long, con 



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