16 Mr. J. Walton on the genei^a 



subglobose form ; the elytra are likewise shorter in proportion to 

 the breadth, the base elevated and slightly straightened behind 

 the shoulders. I think that Mr. Stephens has not a typical spe- 

 cimen of Cure, uniformis of Marsham, but the examples in Kirby^s 

 MSS. and museum which he refers to Marsham agree with this 

 species. 



Found very abundantly in hedges on the black-thorn and on 

 Umbellifera from May to July. 



9. Phyllobius viridieoUis, Fab./ Gyll., Steph., Schonh. 



The form of almost every organ of this insect is extremely 

 similar to the preceding; but it differs in having the scales 

 elliptic-lanceolate ; the head and thorax coarsely rugose-punctate, 

 the latter glabrous above, and sprinkled with green scales at the 

 sides ; the elytra nearly glabrous. 



I have received numerous specimens from Mr. R. N. Greville, 

 found in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and Dr. Greville in- 

 forms me, that it is in some years so abundant that a dozen spe- 

 cimens may be taken with one grasp of the hand on Alehemilla 

 vulgaris ; in Sweden, according to Gyllenhal, it inhabits Artemisia 

 campestris. 



Genus Polydrosus, Germ., Schonh. 



§ A. Femora simple, 



1. Polydrosus undatus, Fab., Gyll., Germ., Steph., Schonh. 

 — fulvicornis, Steph. 

 Cure, selenius. Marsh., Kirb. MSS. 

 — rufipes, Linn., Mus. Linn. 



Cur e. fulvicornis J Ydh. and Gyll., is nearly allied to this insect, 

 from which, however, it may be instantly known by having, inde- 

 pendent of other characters, the head black, the rostrum, thorax 

 and elytra ferrugineous or rufo-castaneous. There are two au- 

 thentic examples of Cure, fulvicornis in the collection of Kirby 

 from Gyllenhal, and I possess several foreign specimens with that 

 name from the collection of Billberg. P. fulvicornis of Stephens 

 is, according to the two insects in his cabinet, a variety of P. un- 

 datus. I have never seen a British specimen of Cure, fulvicornis 

 of Fabricius. Dr. Germar has recorded his opinion*, that the 

 description of Cure, rujipes by Linnaeus does not at all agree with 

 this species. 



Common on the oak underwood in the woods of Kent and 

 Surrey in June. 



* Ent. Zeit. Stettin, no. 5. p. 99, 1842. 



