130 CRYPTOPHAGID^. 



beech tree on July 23, 1907; it has also been found in France and 

 Denmark {v. Ent. Mo. Mag. xlix. (2 Ser. xix.) lOOS, 123). 



In the European Catalogue (190G) this s^iecies is regarded as a 

 variety of C. jmbescens ; this may be correct. 



C. subdepressus, Gyll. (Ins. Suec. iv. 287). This species is 

 distinguished from its close allies and especially from C. scanicics, L., 

 to which it is most nearly related, by the very thick and regular punc- 

 tuation of the elytra, which scarcely becomes finer at the apex ; the 

 pubescence, moreover, is shorter and finer than in the last-named 

 species, tlie thorax is much more narrowly margined, and the callosities 

 of the anterior angles are smaller. The lateral tooth is in the middle 

 of the sides and is small. As regards the punctuation of the elytra 

 the species resembles C. validics, with which it is classed by Ganglbauer, 

 but the latter insect is much larger with thicker antennoe ; it has, 

 moreover, a well-marked transverse impression at the base of the 

 thorax, whereas in C. scanicus this is very feeble. The upper surface 

 is brownish-i-ed or ferruginous with rather short recumbent pubes- 

 cence, and is only slightly shining. L. ^l-^^ mm. 



Strathpefl'er, Ross-shire, iST.B. : two specimens taken in August 1907 

 by Dr. Joy, and introduced by him as British (Ent. Mo. Mag. xliii. 

 (2 Ser. xviii.) 1907, 225) ; ISTethy Bridge, Inverness-shire (Beare) ; Avie- 

 more (Champion) ; Great Silkeld, Cumberland (Britten), on branches of 

 Scotch fir; Bradfield (Joy); Woking and Guildford (Champion and 

 Walker); Wytham Park (Walker) ; ^Wellington College, Berks., West 

 Malvern and Tarrington, Herefordshire (Tomlin). It will probably be 

 found abundantly in various localities by beating the lower branches of 

 fir trees. On the Continent it appears especially to affect Plcea excelsa. 



C. fowleri, Joy. Somewiiat resembling C scanicus, but rather 

 broader, duller, and with the elytra more parallel-sided and difTerently 

 punctured. Ferruginous or reddish-testaceous, without a trace of 

 darker colour on the elytra ; antennse with the club smaller than in 

 C. scanicus, the last joint distinctly narrower than the penultimate (in 

 C. scanicus the last joint is scarcely narrower than or as bi'oad as the 

 penultimate) ; thorax as in 0. scanicus, but with the median tooth 

 smaller and the punctuation not so strong and much closer; elytra 

 dull, parallel-sided or even slightly widened to beyond the middle, and 

 from thence somewhat abiaiptly narrowed, the punctuation nearly as 

 strong at apex as at base, slightly rugose at base, closer and less strong 

 than in C. scanicus, the pubescence rather longer and more erect than 

 in that species. 



Bradfield (Joy) : mostly in dry wood dust in old beech trees, and 

 one or two on freshly-cut wood ; Bedingfield, Sufiblk, and Headenham, 

 Norfolk (Garneys) ; Water E:iton, Enslow Bridge, and Weston-on-the- 

 Green, Oxon (Collins) ; Wytham, Berks. (Collins). The species has 

 also been taken by Captain Deville in the Forest of Haute Seve, near 

 Fougferes, France, on a felled oak. 



By separating and describing this species, Dr. Joy appears to have 



