826 FIFTH KFPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
street, Brunswick, on land from which timber was felled, as we were 
informed, in November, 1S80, so that the period during which the in- 
sects had been at work was known quite exactly. 
Fig. 219.— Crypturgug atomug. 
This species has been kindly identified for us by Dr. John L. Le 
Conte, of Philadelphia, who has also prepared the following descrip. 
tion, which is much more complete than the original description in the 
Transactions of the American Entomological Society. (Vol. II.) 
This beetle is said by Eichhoff (Eur. Borkenkafer, 166) to be a syno- 
nym of Crypturgus pusillns Gyllenhal. 
The beetle. — Slender, dark, piceous, shining, prothorax distinctly longer than wide, 
sparsely and coarsely punctured ; elytra very finely not densely pubescent, striae com- 
posed of shallow punctures, interspaces as well as the striae without distinct punctu- 
lations. Length, l mm -}-. Head with a broad short beak, slightly convex, finely not 
densely puuctulate. Prothorax distinctly longer than wide, slightly rounded on the 
sides, gradually narrowed from the middle to the tip; disk transversely convex, not 
polished, but very imperceptibly granulate, sparsely and strongly punctured. Elytra 
cylindrical, not wider than the prothorax, convexly declivous behind; sparsely 
clothed with very short and fine yellowish pubescence ; striae composed of rather 
large shallow puuctures, interspaces not narrower than the striae, almost impercep- 
tibly puuctulate. Beneath nearly smooth, sides of metasternum with a row of punc- 
tures, sides of ventral segments feebly punctured. Legs piceous, front tibiae with 
five distinct acute teeth on the outer edge, which is also sparsely fringed with long 
yellowish hairs, with a fine apical spine at inner angle ; tarsi yellow, narrow, third 
joint not dilated. Antennae with the scape long, the first joint of the funicle large, 
rounded; second indistinct, closely connected with the club, which is large, oval, 
not pointed, solid, polished, and corneous, except along the apical margin, where 
there is a spongy sensitive band. 
4. The pine-timber beetle. 
Pilyophlhonis matcrarius (Fitch). 
This bark-borer has been noticed on p. 718. We found numbers of 
them at Brunswick in August, 1881, which were identified as such by 
Dr. Horn, under the bark of a spruce, which had been cut down the 
preceding November; a few larva3 occurred with these. 
5. Hyhtrgops pinif ex Fitch. 
This species, noticed on p. 722, as occurring in pine stumps, was also 
found mining under the bark of spruce stumps of trees felled in No- 
