420 miYNCHOPHORA. [Mydopkflu*. 



II. Second interstice of elytra not depressed and with 



a row of small tubercles at apex ....... M. MINOR, Hart. 



IH. piniperda, L. (testaceus, F.). Black or pitchy black, or black 

 with the elytra dull red, often entirely testaceous, shining ; oblong, 

 subcylindrical, clothed with rather scanty pilose pubescence; head some- 

 what strongly produced, distinctly punctured ; antenna? ferruginous ; 

 thorax near base, about as broad as, or a little broader than long, much 

 narrowed and somewhat compressed in front, rather finely punctured, 

 the punctuation, however, being variable in different specimens, and 

 being closer and stronger at sides than on disc ; scutellum rather 

 large, punctiired ; elytra separately and broadly rounded at base, 

 with comparatively fine punctured striae, interstices punctured, some- 

 what granulose at base and raised into asperate tubercles at apex, 

 apex of second interstice depressed and without tubercles ; legs black, 

 tarsi red. L. 3|-4 mm. 



In decaying firs ; somewhat local in England and Wales, but only too plentiful 

 where it occurs ; Scotland, abundant in the bark of fir logs, Solway, Tay, Dee and 

 Moray districts and probably all the others ; Ireland, Cranmore and Armagh and 

 most likely general. 



BI. minor, Hart. Very like the preceding, but on the average a 

 little smaller (although according to Thomson it is of the same size), 

 with the striae of the elytra finer and more finely punctured, and the 

 interstices more closely punctured, the second not being depressed and 

 being furnished with a series of small tubercles on its apical declivity ; 

 it is also distinguished by the fact that the posterior tibiae are furnished 

 with a small tooth situated in the middle and a second at some dis- 

 tance from the apex ; in M. piniperda the first of these is situated 

 behind middle ; the elytra are usually brownish red. L. 3| 3| 

 mm. 



In the bark of fir logs ; very rare ; Dee district, Braemar ; it probably occurs also 

 in the other neighbouring districts, and may very probably be passed over as its 

 near ally is so abundant that it is unnoticed by collector?. 



CISSOPHACUS, Chapuis. 



This genus was formed for the reception of the small species 

 formerly known as Hylurgus liederce = Hylurgus pilosus (Wat. Cat., 

 Chapman, &c., nee Carplwttorus pilosus, Eatz.); from Mydophilus it may 

 be known by having the anterior coxae rather widely separated and the 

 thorax evenly pubescent, and from Carphoborus by the six-jointed 

 funiculus* of the antennae and the distinctly bilobed third joint of its 

 tarsi ; it may further be distinguished by having the mentum rotundate- 

 ovate at base ; one species only is known, which attacks the ivy, 



Schmidt speaks of the funiculus as seven -jointed, but, as pointed out by Rye, he 

 has evidently counted in the scape. 



