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Genus 384. Apion. 

 13. Curtmi, Kirby. Narrow and convex, chalybeous black, shining, very 

 sparingly clothed with white hairs : antennae with the two basal joints 

 subferruginous, joints of funiculus globose : rostrum smooth and shi- 

 ning, face and thorax punctured, the latter cylindric, slightly attenuated, 

 with an oval pit at the base : elytra elongate-ovate, not twice as broad 

 as the thorax, with delicate striae and series of white hairs upon and 

 between them : length, including the rostrum, not 1 line, breadth 

 scarcely ^. 

 The whole insect is convex, head, thorax and elytra, and not at 

 all depressed as in ^. pubescens, to which it is most nearly allied: it 

 is further distinguished by the ferruginous base of the antennae, the 

 globose and not oval joints of the funiculus, and the rostrum is 

 smooth and polished. Mr. Kirby drew up a description 20 years 

 since from this unique specimen, which I took in Norfolk, with a 

 view to publish it under the above name, but Mr. Stephens has 

 merely described a variety of a common insect which he fancied was 



the same. 



Fam. Salpingid^, 



Genus 245^. Lissodema Heyana. 

 Will form a subgenus with ^Sphceriestes 4'pustulatu$ and denti- 

 collis, principally distinguished by the club of the antennae being tri- 

 articulate and not 6-jointed : the structure of the tarsi justified my 

 placing Lissodema before the Heteromera^ and the position of Sal- 

 pingus seems to be doubtful. 



Fam. CuRYSOMELIDiE. 



Genus 429. Eumolpus.? 



3. Hobsoni. Castaneous, very thickly punctured, clothed with short de- 

 pressed ochreous hairs : antennae ochreous, longer than the thorax, 

 disc of thorax black : elytra deep ferruginous, with a long black patch 

 on the suture, a large spot at the base, another on the shoulder, 2 long 

 black spots at the middle and 3 towards the apex, forming interrupted 

 fasciae : length 1§ line, breadth 1. 

 This insect, which will probably form a new genus, was taken by 



the late Mr. Hobson of Manchester, under the bark of a poplar- tree 



at Houghend Clough near Charlton. 



Genus 431. Cryptocephalus. 

 20. ochraceus. Smooth, shining, deep bright ochreous ; antennae blackish 

 towards the apex ; palpi piceous ; face slightly punctured, with a channel 

 down the middle : thorax broad with the margins and a line down the 



* Cnrtis's British Entomology, folio 662. 



