418 RHYNCHOPHORA. \_HyUsinii8. 



greyish-black hairs, which are also present on thorax, and with a band of 

 whitish grey hairs along the suture, which is rarely obsolete or absent, 

 and as a rule is very distinct and at once distinguishes the species ; 

 antennae ferruginous with the club somewhat darker than the f uniculus ; 

 thorax transverse, with the sides gradually and not strongly narrowed 

 towards the front, very thickly granulated, the granulations being very 

 fine behind, base strongly and angularly produced before scutellum ; 

 elytra with rather deep and distinct regular striae, interstices more or 

 less broad, very closely rugose ; legs black, with the tarsi ferruginous. 

 L. 2|-3 mm. 



In decaying ash ; occasionally found by sweeping herbage beneath old trees ; local, 

 but not uncommon in some districts ; it appears, however, to be rarely abundant iu 

 any locality ; Putney, Forest Hill, Caterham, Cobham, Croydon, Shirley, Cowfold, 

 Richmond Park, Mickleham, Wimbledon, Esher, Ripley, West Wickham, Sheerness; 

 Cromer; Littlington and Ashwicken near Cambridge ; Compton Wynniat, Somerset 

 (Power) ; Herefordshire (one specimen sent me in 1883 by Dr. Chapman, who had not 

 before found the species) ; Repton, Burton-on-Treut (one specimen found by myself, 

 beaten, I believe, off a furze bush under an ash tree; also taken in the district by 

 Mr. Garneys) ; Ripon ; Scotland, Solway district, " Raehills, Rev. W. Little, 

 Murray's Cat." ; the late Mr. W. Garneys once told me that he took the species in large 

 numbers off the window of a cottage to which he had gone to visit a patient ; a log of 

 wood (presumably ash) had been put on the fire, and the beetles had been driven out 

 by the heat ; the species has been found abundantly in beech near Frankfort. 



K. fraxini, Panz. (varius, F. ; melanocephalus, F.). Eather short, 

 convex, dull, upper side pitchy or reddish, variegated with ashy and 

 fuscous scales, underside with ashy pubescence, which is thicker at the 

 sides of the breast ; antennas ferruginous, with the club darker, large 

 and acuminate ; thorax transverse, with the sides somewhat narrowed in 

 front, very finely and granulately sculptured ; elytra with fine but 

 distinct punctured striae, interstices broad, rugosely sculptured, granulate 

 towards base ; legs black, tarsi red or ferruginous ; reddish varieties 

 often occur, with the legs entirely reddish testaceous ; they are, however, 

 more or less immature. L. 2^-3 1 mm. 



In decaying ash-trees ; often found by sweeping herbage : generally distributed 

 and common throughout the greater part of the kingdom. 



K. vittatus, F. The smallest of our species of Hylesinus ; black 

 or fuscous with the elytra pitchy, brownish or reddish-brown, variegated 

 with yellowish-grey scales, and a more or less distinct lighter curved 

 patch of scales extending from the shoulder to middle of suture of each 

 elytron, and enclosing between them a common, more or less marked, 

 oval dark patch ; the markings, however, are often more or less confused ; 

 thorax transverse, with the sides slightly rounded behind and somewhat 

 narrowed in front, closely and granulately sculptured, variegated with 

 yellowish grey and greyish scales which in fresh specimens are often 

 arranged in irregular longitudinal lines ; elytra with fine but distinct 

 punctured stria?, interstices broad, very closely rugose ; besides the 

 markings above mentioned there is usually a more or less distinct 



