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ii. Thorax without impressions on disk ; rostrum 



shorter, scarcc-ly dilated at apex T. XIVKIBOSTRIS, F. 



II. Thorax with two tufts of raised hairs towards the 



middle of disc T. SEPICOLA, F. 



T. albirostris, Herbst. Oblong, dusky black ; rostrum compara- 

 tively long with white squamose pile ; eyes somewhat approximating on 

 forehead ; antennae black ; thorax narrowed in front, with an elevated 

 and scarcely undulated, almost straight, carina at base, moderately punc- 

 tured, disc with two plain foveae and two others more or less obsolete ; 

 elytra with a whitish patch at scutellum, and a large white patch at 

 apex, the latter variegated with black ; towards the suture there is a 

 series of velvety black tufts ; legs dark, annulated with white. L. 4-5^ 

 mm. 



In dead wood of beech, oak, and certain species of poplar ; extremely rare ; ou 

 palings near Norwich (Stephens); I know of no other record and the species, perhaps, 

 requires further confirmation as indigenous ; it has occurred in Swedeu, Central 

 Europe, and Eastern Siberia. 



T. niveirostris, F. Allied to the preceding, from which it may 

 easily be known by its much shorter rostrum, which is scarcely dilated 

 at apex, and by having the thorax even and not foveolate ; dusky 

 black, with the antennae pale ferruginous, and the rostrum and head, 

 scutellum, and apex of elytra thickly clothed with snowy scales : there 

 are also patches of ashy pubescence on the thorax and elytra, inter- 

 mingled on the latter with velvety black patches ; the basal carina or 

 raised line on thorax is slightly sinuate at the sides ; legs variegated 

 with white pile, tibiae and tarsi more or less ferruginous. L. 3|-4| mm. 



Male with the antennae longer and the posterior tibiae with a hook 

 at apex. 



In dead branches of oak, hazel, beech, and lime; by beating dead hedges and 

 faggot stacks in woods ; very rare ; New Forest, June, 1831 (Hope) ; Coombe Wood 

 and Shirley (Stephens^ ; Darenth Wood (Champion) ; near Furnham, Surrey (Power) ; 

 West Wickhain (Power) ; Buddon Wood, Leicester, September 10th, 1860 (Plant). 



T. sepicola, F. (ephippinm. Boh.). Allied to the preceding, but 

 easily distinguished by the fact that the thorax his two black fascicles 

 or tufts of raised pile on the middle of disc, and the elytra a common 

 velvety-black dorsal patch, which is usually large ; the general colour 

 is black variegated with ashy ; the antennae are red, with the third 

 joint shorter than the fourth ; the elevated basal keel of the thorax is 

 almost straight, and the eyes are broadly distant on the forehead and 

 somewhat prominent. L 3| 4| mm. 



In woods, in dead branches of oak and hornbeam ; extremely rare ; a single example 

 was found on August 18th, 1856, by Mr. F. Plant, of Leicester, " in n decayed oak- 

 bough, of which he carried home a bag full for elimination from Buddou Wood, 

 near Quorndon, Leicestershire" (Ent. Annual, 1857, 8i). 



CHORAGINA. 



This triba contains a few genera of which Choragn,< alone is indigenous 

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