202 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



Family THYLACITIDiE. Thylacitidans. 



CV. Genus TRACHYPHL03US. Germ. 



(270) 1. * Trachyphlceus melanothrix. Black-haired Trachy phloem. 



T. ( melanothrix J lutosus,? fuscus, supra atro-setosus ; prothorace subcanaliculato ; elytris subsulcatis, sulcis punctatis ,- antennis 



tarsisque rvfis. 

 Black-haired Trachyphlosus, lutose, brown, above bristled with black bristles : prothorax slightly channelled ; elytra with 



shallow punctured furrows ; antenna? and tarsi rufous. 



Length of the body 2f lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body really black, but quite covered with a brown powdery substance, resembling mud or dirt. 

 Head impressed between the eyes ; rostrum longer than the head f and nearly as wide, emarginate 

 and hairy at the end ; antenna? rufous, scape covered with brown powder : prothorax transverse, 

 obsoletely channelled, with several short rigid black bristles on each side of the channel arranged 

 nearly in rows : elytra obsoletely furrowed with slight punctures in the furrows, and between each 

 furrow is a row of longer rigid black truncated bristles ; a few white ones are discernible at the 

 apex : legs bristly, with white bristles, rufous, but the thighs are covered with powdery scales. 



We may leave the Gonatocerous group, or circle, by an insect which exhibiting 

 all the other characters of Schonherr's legion of Brachyrhynchi, belongs to the 

 Orthocerous division of that author, or Rhynchophora with straight unbroken an- 

 tennae, but there seem to be several links wanting between it and the Br achy cer ides. 

 Rhinariaf in which the antennas, though the scape is very short, may be termed 

 subfractcB, since that joint forms a very obtuse angle with the rest of the antennas, 

 would intervene between the other Gonatocera, and the insect here alluded to. 



7 See Introd. to Ent. iv, 275, 6. s Linn. Trans, xii, 430, t. xxii, /. 9. 



