Cissojthagtis.] RHTNCHOPHORA. 421 



forming galleries tinder the bark ; it is found in England, France, 

 Italy aiul Algeria ; the species has been found in some numbers by 

 Dr. Chapman attacking stems of ivy, in which the parent beetles make 

 a burrow, and the larvae, as in the case of Hylesinu* fraxini, eat 

 galleries at right angles to this ; neither healthy twining ivy, nor 

 faggots cut from the tree, suit its taste, but when sickly or dying, it 

 is at once attacked ; in many parts of the country a custom prevails 

 of destroying ivy by cutting through the stem ; the plant, which" 

 partly derives its sustenance as a parasite from the tree to which it 

 clings, is not immediately killed, but usually survives for a year or 

 two ; in this state it seems to be especially subject to the attacks of 

 the beetles. 



C. liederse, Schmidt (vicinus, Com.). Cylindrical, brownish, with 

 the antennae, legs, anterior portion of the thorax, and the elytra, 

 reddish or ferruginous ; pubescence close, yellowish brown, which is, 

 in consequence, the general colour of the insect ; thorax at least as 

 long as broad, with the sides subparallel behind and slightly narrowed 

 in front, covered with recumbent hairs, very closely sculptured, with a 

 slightly raised central line ; elytra very slightly broader behind middle, 

 with distinct and rather strongly punctured striae (the punctures being 

 quadrangular), interstices finely and closely granulate, thickly covered 

 with hairs and furnished besides with a row of larger raised setose 

 hairs, which are plainly visible in certain lights ; the elytra are, 

 apparently, nearly always lighter than the posterior portion of the 

 thorax. L. 2-2 1 mm. 



In decaying ivy; extremely local and, as a rnle, rare; Dartfonl and St. Mary 

 (.'ray, Kent (Champion); Lyne near Rusper (Horsham, Sussex) (Gorham); Plymouth 

 ( J. J. Walker) ; Monmouthshire, very local (Chapman) ; Bannouth and Dunham 

 1'ark, Manchester (Chappell); Scarborough (Lawson). 



XVXiECHINUS, Chapuis (Carphoborus, Brit. Cat., nee Eichhoff). 



This genus appears to be represented by one European and two Xorth 

 American species ; they may be known by their small size, widely 

 separated intermediate and posterior coxae, 5- jointed funiculus, and ovate- 

 globose scarcely compressed club of the antennas ; the thorax is evenly 

 pubescent ; the eyes are very slightly emarginate in the middle of their 

 inner margin ; the tibiae, especially the anterior ones, are armed with a 

 long sharp apical spine, and the first segment of the abdomen is furnished 

 with a transverse process between the posterior coxae ; the third joint of 

 the tarsi is simply cordate and the mentum is cordiform. 



X. pilosus, liatz. Oblong, subcylindrical, dull, clothed with thick 

 irreyish pubescence, black, with the antennae and legs ferruginous or 

 testaceous ; the thorax appears to be often lighter than the head and the 

 elytra than the thorax ; thorax as long as broad, slightly narrowed at 



