438 RIIYNCHOPHORA. [Dnjocafc*. 



and suture raised ; tibiae less dilated than in tlie preceding species. 

 L. 2f-3| mm. 



In decaying oaks ; also sometimes in chestnuts and holly ; common and generally 

 distributed from the Midland districts southwards; abundant in Sherwood Forest ; 

 Manchester and Liverpool districts ; apparently less common further north and 

 scarce iu the extreme northern counties of England ; Northumberland and Durham 

 district ; " Gibside, in oak bark, August " (Bold) ; not recorded from Scotland ; it 

 probably occurs iu Ireland. 



Z>. alni, Georg. (Marshami, Rye ; Bulmcrincqui, Kol., teste Sharp ; 

 1 fuscus, Marsham (Rye)). Oblong, almost cylindrical, pitchy black, 

 with the elytra lighter, antennae and legs ferruginous ; upper surface 

 clothed with fine and scanty pale hairs, which are more conspicuous 

 and arranged in rows behind ; thorax, except on a smooth central line 

 at base, dull, with transverse granulations which are distinct at apex and 

 become feebler towards base, which is granulately sculptured and not 

 punctured ; elytra rather shining, parallel-sided, with distinct and 

 rather strongly and closely punctured stria?, interstices with much less 

 close rows of punctures, rather abruptly rounded and scarcely visibly 

 reflexed, and without tubercles, at apex; the species, which is about 

 equal to P. lidentatus in its average size, is, compared with T. licolor, 

 less hairy, narrower, with the thorax behind not so shining and granu- 

 late instead of punctured (the latter character, however, being somewhat 

 hard to distinguish), and with the elytra not nearly so evidently 

 flattened behind at apex. L. 2f-3| mm. 



Under hark of decayed beech trees ; rare ; first taken by Mr. Morley in beech 

 trees lying on the ground iu a wood near Prestwich, Manchester, in February, 1866 ; 

 Weybridge, Surrey, and Yardley, near Birmingham (Blatch) ; Driukwater 

 Park, Manchester (Reston) ; Agecroft, near Manchester, and Wilinslow, Cheshire 

 (Chappell). 



Z>. coryli, Ferris (Lymantor sepicola ? Lowendal). Elongate, 

 narrow, cylindrical, shining, pitchy-black, pitchy-brown or brownish 

 red, with the thorax often lighter in front, antennae and legs reddish 

 yellow ; upper surface with rather scanty pubescence ; thorax consider- 

 ably longer than broad, closely granulate and dull in front, rather 

 diffusely and distinctly punctured behind with an impunctate central 

 line, sides straight or almost straight ; elytra obliquely reflexed at apex, 

 somewhat impressed near suture behind, without distinct striae but with 

 rows of moderately strong punctures which are often more or less irregu- 

 lar. L. lf-2 mm. 



In dead branches and twigs of hazel and hornbeam ; rare ; Darenth (Kent), and 

 Ashtead (Surrey) (Champion) ; Darenth (Sharp and Rye) ; Darenth, Birch Wood 

 and Weybridge (Power) ; Kidderminster (Blatch). 



TAPHRORYCHUS, Eichhoff. 



This gelius may be distinguished from Dryoades by the simple 

 orbicular club of the antenna?, which has curved transverse sutures on 



