Dryoc(etes.~\ RHYNCHOPHORA. 437 



discussed above (pp. 426, 427), and may perhaps have to be adopted ; 

 the differences, however, appear to be very slight as given by Lowendal 

 in the second part of his paper; after giving a description he writes as 

 follows : " Cum hac specie quae ad similitudiuem Dryocat" 

 (uiihi ignoti) proximo accedere videtur, characteres generis Drtjocffilu-, qui 

 a scriptoribus afferuntur, mimime congruunt ; differt enim nova haec 

 species et clava plane integra et quinto articulo funiculi vaviante, saepe 

 cvanido, et diversa prothoracis sculptura. 



" Quare non potui quin novum genus constitucrem. 



" Quodsi postea apparuerit, hoc genus a genere Dryocaetarum distingui 

 non posse, necesse erit characteres generis Dryocsetae aliter definire. 



" Xe descriptiones quidem speciei, quse appellatur coryli, quas Ferris 

 et Eichhoff confecerunt, inter se plane concinunt, et haud scio an illi 

 diversas species ante oculos habuerint." 



It is therefore quite obvious, as Mr. Blandf ord remarks in a note to me 

 in which he kindly furnished me with the above quotation, that Lowen- 

 dal is not sure that his species is distinct from D. coryli, and it is 

 therefore hardly safe at present to say that his genus Lymantor contains 

 two distinct species. 



D. autographus, Ratz. (septentrionis, Mannh.). Oblong, cylin- 

 drical, shining, clothed with long pale villose pubescence, of a uniform 

 reddish brown colour, antennae and legs reddish-testaceous or clear red ; 

 thorax longer than broad, with the sides very slightly rounded and 

 gently and slightly narrowed in front, closely and rather strongly punc- 

 tured, the sculpture being close and slightly rough on the anterior 

 margin which is dull ; occasionally there are feeble traces of a central 

 line ; scutellum distinct ; elytra parallel- sided, with strong punctured 

 striae, interstices distinctly punctured in rows, apex entire, sutural stria; 

 not impressed or sulcate ; legs rather stout. L. 3^-4 mm. 



Under bark of stumps and dead trunks of firs ; taken in some numbers by Mr. 

 Lawson near Scarborough, who first found it in the beginning of April, 1869, in 

 some young larcb trees in a fir plantation about a mile and a half from that town ; 

 from the appearance of the trees it must have been very abundant in the previous 

 year. 



D. villosus, F. Smaller than the preceding, and clothed with 

 longer and stouter hairs ; oblong, rather shining, covered with very long 

 pale villose pubescence, which will easily distinguish the species ; of a 

 uniform reddish-brown colour, antenna} and legs red or reddish-testaceous ; 

 thorax longer than broad, very closely shagreened or granulately punc- 

 tured (Thomson calls the sculpture ( ' imbricate-punctuate "), the anterior 

 portion being rougher and duller than the posterior, sides rounded and 

 gradually narrowed in front ; scutellum distinct ; elytra with rather deep 

 and strongly punctured striae, interstices narrow with rows of somewhat 

 strong punctures, apex somewhat inflexed, sutural striae sulcate behind 



