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joints gradually diminishing in size, and the labruru is indistinct ; in 

 the Scolytidae, in which the formation of the maxillary palpi is much 

 the same as in the Curculionidae, the labrum is sometimes distinct, but 

 in this case the legs are nearly always more or less fossorial ; from the 

 Platyrrhinidae the present family is distinguished by the long loose club 

 of the antennae, the more developed rostrum, which has no scrobes, the 

 conical anterior coxae, the completely covered pygidium, and the equal 

 length of the segments of the abdomen. 



Of the three genera Neinonyx, Dcedycorrhyneus and Rhinoma^er, the 

 last only is found in Britain ; from the first of these genera it may be 

 distinguished by its simple tarsal claws, and from the second by the 

 absence of epiplcurae and the very strongly developed labrum. 



RHINOMACER, Fabricius (Cimberi*, Des Gozis). 



This genus contains four species, one of which occurs in Europe and 

 the other three in Xorth America ; they are found on the male blossoms 

 (chatons) of the pine, in which the female lays its eggs ; they are rather 

 long, slender insects, and bear a resemblance to some of the narrower 

 species of Rhynchites ; some modern authors apply the name of Cimberis 

 to the genus, and assign the name Rkinomacer to Byctiscu* ; this, how- 

 ever, causes considerable confusion. 



R. attelaboides, F. Elongated, brassy-black, thickly clothed with 

 long ashy or yellowish pubescence, antennas and legs red, tarsi more or 

 less fuscous ; rostrum dilated at apex, antenna long and slender, with 

 very gradual three-jointed club ; eyes prominent ; thorax at least as 

 long as broad, subcylindrical ; elytra long, somewhat depressed, parallel- 

 sided, considerably broader at base than thorax, closely and distinctly 

 punctured ; legs long. L. 3|-5 mm. 



Male with the anterior tibiae evidently curved on their inner side, and 

 the last four joints of the antennze with white pubescence ; abdomen 

 without special fringes cf hair. 



Female with the anterior tibiae almost straight, and the third and 

 fourth ventral segments of abdomen furnished in middle with a row of 

 thick yellow hairs. 



Cn Scotch fir ; very local, and apparently confined to the north of Kngland and 

 Scotland ; Stndley Park, Ripon (Waterhouse) ; Carlisle (Heyshara) ; Scotland, local, 

 Sol way, Tweed, Forth, Tay, Dee and Moray districts (Moffat, Alvie, Braemar, 

 Aviemore, Inverness, &c.). 



CTTRCTJLIONID^. 



This family contains by far the majority of the Rhynchophora ; its 

 members may be distinguished from those of the two preceding families 

 by the formation of the maxillary palpi, which are short, rigid and 

 conical ; the more, or less strongly developed rostrum will distinguish 

 them from the Scolytidae, from which, moreover, they differ in the fact 



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