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which the interstices of the elytra are tuberculate-interrupted; 

 and describes it as like L, minutus, but a little longer, with 

 the thorax constricted behind and slightly bicarinate. He 

 does not comj3are it to nodifer, which he states to occur in 

 England at the roots of Crataegus oxyacantha. This locality 

 (a mere reproduction of Westwood's in 1839), though true, 

 is not the whole truth; for to give a list of the various plants 

 or objects with which L. nodifer is associated, according to 

 my own experience alone, in this country, would require a page 

 or two of the present volume. It is, indeed, certain that this 

 insect, so curious in its structure and now so abundant in 

 every part of the country, must either (as is excessively im- 

 probable) have escaped the observation of the many acute 

 Coleopterists of the preceding generation, or have become 

 suddenly and universally increased enormously in numbers 

 throughout the land ; and, if the latter view be adopted, such 

 an increase would almost amount to a separate creation. 

 Motschulsky ascribes L. antipodum (White, " Erebus and 

 Terror," xi) as a synonym to 7>orf//er, and refers to Erichson 

 as stating that the species has its origin in New Holland and 

 New Zealand. 



173. Lathridius pini, Motsch., 1. c, 236, Tab. vi, fig. 3; 

 Dallas, 1. c, 249; E. C. Rye, 1. c, 198. 



Described as occurring under pine bark near St. Peters- 

 burg, and also in England and Smyrna, — " but probably 

 imported in wood." The collocation of the two latter places 

 is stiikingly suggestive of the "Jerusalem and Madagascar" 

 of Thackeray's ballad. 



L, pini is stated to be of the size, build and colour of 

 L. lardarius ; but differing in having the thorax trapeziform 

 and attenuated towards the head, and with its anterior angles 

 projecting and almost appendiculated. 



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