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transversely substrigose ; Bedel, on the other hand, expressly states that 

 R. Ugnarius has all the interstices marked with a distinct series of 

 punctures ; the latter author also says that R. ater (chloropus) has the 

 interstices almost impunctate and that in R. gfacilis they are smooth or 

 imperceptibly punctured ; in some examples, however, the interstice-; 

 are certainly visibly punctured or strigose, or both ; the character seems 

 to vary somewhat in the same species ; it is better therefore to keep 

 R. Ugnarius and R. cylindrirosfris united, as they are otherwise virtually- 

 identical. 



CAULOTRYPIS, Wollaston. 



The old genus PhlceopJiagus, as it has hitherto stood in the British 

 catalogues, has included the two species P. ceneopiceus and P. spadix, 

 which have been distinguished from Rhyncclus and Stereocorynes by the 

 rather longer scape and more elongate second joint of the funiculus of 

 the antennae, and from Cossonus and Rhopalomesites by the less distant 

 anterior coxae ; the absence of the scutellum, however, is a much better 

 character on which to separate them ; our two British species have been 

 placed by M. Bedel in the genera Caulotrypis and Codiosoma respec- 

 tively ; the latter genus he has formed to receive P. tpadix which may 

 be easily separated from the present genus by the shape of the meta- 

 thoracic episterna and especially by the presence of pale hairs on the 

 upper surface of the elytra. 



The genus Phlceopliagus, as constituted in the Munich catalogue, con- 

 tains thirty species which are very widely distributed, representatives 

 occurring in the Canaries, the Azores, -Madeira, Ceylon, St. Vincent, 

 Algeria, South Africa, Mexico, Xew Caledonia, &c. 



C. aeneopiceus, Boh. Pitchy brown, shining, with a slight bronze 

 reflection, antennae and legs red, the former rather slender, with the club 

 ovate ; rostrum broad and robust, longer than broad, finely and closely 

 punctured; thorax longer than broad, nearly oval, with sides broadest 

 about middle, moderately strongly and not very closely punctured, not 

 constricted before anterior angles; scutellum invisible; elytra subparallel, 

 scarcely dilated at sides, with punctured stria?, interstices minutely 

 punctured and transversely strigose. L. 3 mm. 



In rotten wood of old wine casks, old posts, <fcc. ; local, but common where it occurs ; 

 London district ; St. Margaret's Bay, Deal; Plymouth; Ufracombe ; Fowey ; Fal- 

 month (abundant, J. J. Walker) ; Barmouth, under ivy bark (Cbappell) ; Dr. Power 

 has taken it in his cellar in Burton Crescent, St. Pancras, London. 



CODIOSOMA, Bedel. 



This newly-formed genus differs from the preceding, as has been 

 above pointed out, by the presence of light hairs on the elytra and also 

 by the fact that the metathoracic episterna are indistinct, whereas in 

 Caulotrypis they are well marked ; the single species is extremely local 



