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its apex. Prothorax elongated and subconical, — being attenuated 

 anteriorly, and widest just in front of its base, where it is about 

 as broad as (or, if anything, a little broader than) the elytra; 

 very deeply and regularly punctured all over ; somewhat convex 

 and even, and with scarcely any indications of a dorsal line. 

 Elytra parallel and rugulose, deeply punctate-striated, and with 

 a row of very minutely impressed points down each of their in- 

 terstices. Antenna (especially their scape and club), and the 

 legs, of a paler and clearer colour than the rest of the surface, — 

 being somewhat rufo-ferruginous (or very pale rufo-piceous) : 

 the tibia (particularly the inner edge of the anterior pair, which 

 are strongly setose) and tarsi of the former, and the club of the 

 latter, very pubescent. Body beneath uniformly and deeply 

 punctured all over, — with the anal region minutely fulvo- 

 pubescent. 



Respecting its claims to admission into the British fauna 

 there cannot be the slightest question, — the village of Alphing- 

 ton, in which it was detected, affording no local reasons what- 

 soever for suspecting that it could have been accidentally intro- 

 duced. On the contrary, indeed, I am informed by Mr. Hutton 

 (to whom I have dedicated the species) that he has made the 

 most careful inquiries, and that no foreign timber (or material) 

 of any kind, so far as he was able to ascertain, had entered the 

 place. The specimens were found amongst logs of wood, recently 

 cut up for burning ; and Mr. Hutton states that it was from out 

 of a hard and un decayed portion of a cherry-tree (in which their 

 winding burrows were very apparent) that he succeeded in extract- 

 ing them. I should add, that I forwarded an example a few 

 months ago, for comparison, to Berlin, where it was totally un- 

 known ; and I have no hesitation, therefore, in regarding it as 

 altogether new to the Curculionida of Europe. 



XV. — On the Genus Lycium. By John Miers, 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. &c. 



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B. Neoge^. 

 * Filament a IcBvia. Sp. 23. 



23. Lycium pallidum (n. sp.); — ramosum, ramulis tortuosis, sub- 

 nitidis, fusco-rufescentibus, grosse nodosis, breviter spinosis, 

 creberrime foliosis, foliis e nodis fasciculatis, glaberrimis, spa- 

 thulato-oblongis, obtusis, imo in petiolum tenuem angustatis, 

 utrinque alutaceo-glaucis, carnosulis, eveniis; floribus majus- 



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