Cneorhinus and Strophosomus. 309 



5. Strophosomus hirius, Schonh., Mant. Cure. viii. p. 399. 



Subovate, ferruginous, clothed with fuseous scales and with 

 short erect hairs. Head small, very short, transverse, black, 

 closely and very minutely punctured, the punctures longitudi- 

 nally confluent ; eyes small, moderately prominent ; rostrum of 

 uniform breadth, a little narrower and rather longer than the 

 head, deeply furrowed in the middle and elevated at the sides, 

 piceous with the apex testaceous. Antennae long, slender and 

 entirely testaceous, the scape as long as the flagellum, curved and 

 clavate. Thorax as broad as long, piceous, distinctly constricted 

 near the base and apex, dilated and rounded at the sides, convex 

 above, thickly and minutely rugulose-punctate, and indistinctly 

 foveolated on each side behind the middle. Elytra ovate, ferru- 

 ginous, deeply sulcate, the sulci bbsoletely punctured, the inter- 

 stices convex, smooth, and with a series of short, claviform, erect 

 hairs, and sparingly clothed with decumbent fuscous scales, 

 deeply cleft at their apices, bifid and trifid. Legs entirely^ tes- 

 taceous. Length 1^ line. 



I have the authority of Schonherr for the generic and specific 

 name of this insect ; but it dififers considerably from all the other 

 species of this genus, by having the head narrower, the eyes 

 smaller and much less prominent ; the rostrum narrower, of uni- 

 form breadth, and without a transverse striga at the base ; the 

 scape of the antennae longer and curved. I think in general 

 habit and affinity it has a greater resemblance to the insects in 

 the genus Omias than to the British forms of Strophosomus with 

 which it is associated by Schonherr. 



Taken in the neighbourhood of Southampton by Mr. Walcot 

 of Bristol, and subsequently near Arundel amongst moss in Fe- 

 bruary by Mr. S. Stevens. 



§ B. Elytra oblong-ovate. 



6. S. Faber, Herbst, Germ., Schonh. 



— chcetophorus et septentrionis, Steph. 

 Cure, limbatus, Marsh, secund. ejus descr. 



— pilosellus, Gyll., Steph. 



— Sus (a, /3.), Kirb. MSS. 



According to Schonherr and Germar, St. pilosellus of Gyll. and 

 Steph. is identical with Cure. Faber of Herbst. 



Immediately recognised from the following by having the tho- 

 rax sinuated at the base, and by having the body densely clothed 

 with depressed lanceolate scales and with slender erect hairs. 



Not very common ; I have occasionally found it in damp mea- 

 dows in June. 



