We have been compelled to establish this little insect as a 

 genus, from its not associating with any group that we are 

 acquainted with. Its natural situation is probably between Cis 

 and Cerylon ; and were it not for Fabricius's words " Antennae 

 perfoliatae," we should consider that his Dermestes scaber would 

 form a second species. 



Cicones Carpini is so like in size and colour to Bolitophagus 

 pictus of Sturm's Deutschlands Fauna, that at first sight we 

 concluded it was nearly allied to it: a slight examination, 

 however, proved that ours was a Tetramerous insect, and that 

 it belonged to the Bostrichini of Latreille, as will be seen by 

 referring to the legs and antennae in the annexed plate. 



A single specimen of this insect (which we cannot find any 

 where described) was taken from under the bark of a Horn- 

 beam tree (Carpinus Betuliis) on Epping Forest in March 

 1826, by Mr. T. Beck, and another about the same time by 

 Mr. Bainbridge, who liberally allowed it to be dissected to 

 supply the magnified figures in the plate. 



The plant is Arenaria trinervis (Plantain-leaved Sandwort). 



