or interesting Indigenous Insects. 281 



Genus 384. Apion. 



13. Curtisii, Kivby. Narrow and convex, chalybeous black, shining, very 

 sparingly clothed with white hairs : antennae with the two basal joints 

 subferrnginous, joints of funiculus globose : rostrum smooth and shi- 

 ning, face and thorax punctured, the latter cylindric, slightly attenuated, 

 with an oval pit at the base : elytra elongate-ovate, not twice as broad 

 as the thorax, with delicate striae and series of white hairs upon and 

 between them : length, including the rostrum, not 1 line, breadth 

 scarcely 4- 



The whole insect is convex, head, thorax and elytra, and not at 



all depressed as in A. pubescens, to which it is most nearly allied: it 



is further distinguished by the ferruginous base of the antenna?, the 



globose and not oval joints of the funiculus, and the rostrum is 



smooth and polished. Mr. Kirby drew up a description 20 years 



since from this unique specimen, which I took in Norfolk, with a 



view to publish it under the above name, but Mr. Stephens has 



merely described a variety of a common insect which he fancied was 



the same. 



Fam. Salpixgid^e. 



Genus 245 b . Lissodema Heyana. 

 Will form a subgenus with *Sph(Eriestes A-pustulatus and denti- 

 collis, principally distinguished by the club of the antennas being tri- 

 articulate and not 6-jointed : the structure of the tarsi justified my 

 placing Lissodema before the Heteromera, and the position of Sal- 

 pingus seems to be doubtful. 



Fam. Chrysomelid^e. 



Genus 429. Eumolpus ? 



3. Hobsoni. Castaneous, very thickly punctured, clothed with short de- 

 pressed ochreous hairs : antennae ochreous, longer than the thorax, 

 disc of thorax black : elytra deep ferruginous, with a long black patch 

 on the suture, a large spot at the base, another on the shoulder, 2 long 

 black spots at the middle and 3 towards the apex, forming interrupted 

 fasciae : length 1§ line, breadth |. 



This insect, which will probably form a new genus, was taken by 

 the late Mr. Hobson of Manchester, under the bark of a poplar-tree 

 at Houghend Clough near Charlton. 



Genus 431. Cryptocephalus. 

 20. ochraceus. Smooth, shining, deep bright ochreous; antennae blackish 

 towards the apex ; palpi piceous; face slightly punctured, with a channel 

 down the middle : thorax broad with the margins and a line down the 



* Curtis's British Entomolo^v, folio 662. 



