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6. R. conicus, Illig. (1801—1806), Germ., Schonh. 



— AlliaricE, Steph. 

 Cure. AUiaricB, Marsh. 



Att. Alliance and nanus, Mus. KIrb. 



I have the authority of Schonherr and Germar for applying 

 the name of conicus to this species. To both of these authors I 

 have sent specimens. I have found this species in white- thorn 

 hedges in the months of June and October. 



7. R. pauxillus, Germ. (1824), Schonh., Steph. Man. 



— atrocceruleus , Steph. 111. 



Of i2. pauxillus of Germar I possess five specimens sent me by 

 that author. 



" This species (No. 7) is distinguished from jR. minutus of Steph.'' 

 (Dr. Germar observes in his letter to me) " by the thorax being 

 more deeply punctured, its dorsal channel distinct, and by the 

 hairs covering the body being longer and more erect.'' To these 

 characters maybe added a difference in the rostrum, viz. this or- 

 gan is more curved in the present species than in the minutus^ I 

 have found the R. pauxillus on the white-thorn hedges at Swans- 

 combe near Gravesend, in the months of May and June. 



8. R. ffej^manicus, Herbst, 1797. Mus. Herbst. 



— minutus, Gyl. (1813), Steph., Schonh. 

 Cure, nanus. Marsh? 1802. 



Att. ceneovirens, Mus. Kirb.* 



Of this species (No. 8) I have foreign specimens sent me by 

 Schonherr and Germar under the name minutus. I have also two 

 English specimens which I forwarded to Germar, returned to me 

 with the same name. From this latter author I have the follow- 

 ing note regarding the present insect : "i?. minutus, Schonh. ; 

 according to the cabinet of Herbst, it is the true germanicus.^' 



This is a very common species : its time of appearance is in the 

 month of June. 



9. R. Alliaria, Payk. 1792, Gyl. 1813. 



— inter punctatus (Wilkin MSS.), Steph 1831. 



— megacephalus, Schonh. 



I sent this species both to Schonherr and Germar : the former, 

 informs me it is his R. megacephalus ; from Germar 1 have the fol- 

 lowing note : "i?. interpunctatus, Steph. — this name would be re- 



* In Schonherr 's ' Syn. Ins.' vol. i. p. 233, 1833, Cure, ceneovirens of 

 Marsham is cited as a synonym to No. 33, R. Fragarice (*' Teste Dom. 

 Kirby"). It is evident from this that Kirby sent Gyllenhal a true Marshamian 

 type (a bhie variety) of the (eneovirens, and judging from the only two ex- 

 amples of No. 8 now in Mr. Kirby's cabinet, which are blue-green varieties, 

 he seems to have considered this species the same as the <sneovirens. 



Gyllenhal (which is very singular) made precisely the same error : see 

 * Ins. Suec/ iii. p. 27, 1813, which he corrected in Schonherr 's * Syn. Ins.,' 

 as above, twenty years afterwards. 



