308 Mr. J. Walton on the genera 



but not thickly punctured, sometimes rather rugose. Elytra 

 ovate with the apices acute, convex above, punctate- striate, the 

 interstices rather broad, flat and smooth, the fourth from the 

 suture on each elytron sometimes slightly raised behind the mid- 

 dle. Clothed with cinereous and fuscous scales, variegated or 

 concolorous, and of a subelliptical form ; the interstices with a 

 series of very short and fine suberect hairs, sometimes very ob- 

 solete. Legs and antennae entirely 'fulvous. Length 1§ — 2\ 

 lines. 



The above description is taken from three insects kindly lent 

 to me by Mr. Curtis. It approaches very closely to the two pre- 

 ceding, but the general form appears to me somewhat different ; 

 it is neither so thickly clothed nor so variable in the colour of 

 the scales ; the head is longitudinally rugulose ; in Coryli and 

 obesus with seven deep sulci and the transverse striga much more 

 distinct ; the thorax subremotely punctured ; in obesus rugulose- 

 punctate ; the depressed scales on the elytra when magnified ap- 

 pear to be of a subelliptical form, whereas in its congeners they 

 are subrotundate ; the suberect hairs are finer and shorter and 

 sometimes very obsolete. I am strongly inclined to consider it 

 specifically distinct, but for want of a sufficient number of speci- 

 mens, I am unable to ascertain whether the characters of the 

 sculpture and the form of the scales are constantly different. I 

 therefore hesitate to speak positively until I have had an oppor- 

 tunity of examining more specimens. 



Taken by Mr. Curtis on heath in a fir plantation on Parley 

 Heath in October, and likewise I believe by Mr. Dale. 



4. Strophosomns retusus, Marsh., Steph. lUustr. 



— squamulatus , Steph. Manual. 



— alternans, Schonh., et oxyops (Chevr.), Schonh. 

 Cure, obesus (a, (3, y.), Kirb. MSS. 



I possess foreign specimens of Cure, squamulatus of Fab. from 

 Schonherr and Germar, which are specifically different from Cure* 

 retusus of Marsh., and not yet to my knowledge discovered in 

 Britain. I likewise possess foreign specimens of St. oxyops from 

 Chevrolat ; these are decidedly identical with this species. It may 

 be known from the two preceding by its short robust form, by 

 having the thorax very broad, transverse, and by being very spa- 

 ringly clothed with short, indistinct erect hairs ; the colour of 

 the legs varies from pale rufous to dull ferruginous or piceous : 

 it is not so variable in size nor in the colour of the scales as St, 

 obesus. 



Found on hedge-banks on the north side of Turner's Wood, 

 Hampstead, in June, and on Ulex nanus near Hastings in Sep- 

 tember. 



