156 OERAMBYCID^. 



" The male, compared with the same sex of T. crmoshayi., is a little 

 more robust and convex, with thicker legs and antennse, has the vertex 

 canaliculate, and the thorax less densely and less uniformly punctate and 

 rather shorter in proportion to its width, and the colour is different. 



" The female of T.parcum differs from the male by its more slender 

 legs and antennae, and by a more punctate thoiax, with only very small 

 and smooth areas on the disc. The female difiers from the female of 

 T. hividum by the rather shorter thorax, and the longitudinally depressed 

 vertex, as well as by the form of the base of the pronotum and by other 

 characters. 



" The important character by which this species differs from T. 

 luridum is the imperfect condition of the centre of the breast. This 

 exists in both sexes, although (as is usually the case in this genus) there 

 is a sexual difference in the structure at this point, due to the female 

 having the meso- and prosterna more flattened than they are in the male. 

 In the male the front of the mesosternum slopes upwards, and no 

 junction with the mesosternal process can be seen. In the female the 

 mesosternal process is broader than in the male, and there is a con- 

 siderable gap between its apex and the most prominent part of the 

 metasternum. 



" T. parcum is allied both to T. luridum and T.fuscum. It is well 

 distinguished from the former by the sternal structui^e, by the much 

 less developed broad margin of the thorax and by the more dense white 

 pubescence on tlie base of the elytra. It is longer than T.fuscum, 

 and has not the peculiar granular sculpture on the thorax which 

 distinguishes T. fuscum, from all the other species. T. parcum is at 

 present known only by two specimens in the Crotch Collection of 

 British Coleojitera in our Museum at Cambridge. They are labelled 

 'near Manchester, 1865.' Inquiry at Manchester has failed to elicit 

 any further information as to their history." 



Even, therefore, if T. pa/rcurtx be regarded as a good species, its 

 record as British is very doubtful, and it can hardly be admitted at 

 present to a place in our lists. 



PHYMATODES, Mulsant. 

 P. (Callidiuxn) lividus, Rossi (Mant. Ins. ii. App. 1794, 

 p. 98). Elongate and parallel-sided, very like a Telephoras in general 

 appearance ; head testaceous, antemife much longer in the male than 

 in the female with the first joint considerably thickened at apex ; thorax 

 small and shining, testaceous, darker at the sides (the dark colour 

 occupying more oi' less of the upper surface) or with two dark spots, 

 broadest behind middle and narrowed towards apex and base, with more 

 or less traces of a central line, dis^tinctly and not closely punctured on 

 disc ; scutellum shiny, dark testaceous ; elytra elongate, parallel, of a 

 livid leaden colour, very closely and inigosely sculptured ; legs strong, 

 with the femora considerably dilated, testaceous, with the femora (except 

 base and apex), the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi dark. L. 6-9 mm. 



