1899] 143 



basi corporeque dense albido-squamosis, antennis, prothoracis margine antico, pedibus 

 elytrisque apice laete rufis ; protliorace fortiter, sat crebre punctate, margine apicali 

 late emarginato-truncato ; elytris apice vix muricatis. Long, fere 1 lin. $ . Tibiis 

 posterioribus unco armatis ; segmento ultimo ventrali medio fovea impressa." 



C querceti is very like Ceuthorrhyncliidius terminatus, Herbst 

 {^ apicalis, Gryll.), but may be readily separated from that insect (whicb 

 is found upon Daucus carota in dry places) by its smaller size, the 

 7-jointed funiculus to the antennas, the rufous legs, the narrower patch 

 of white scales at the base of the elytra, the unarmed femora, &c. In 

 fresh individuals the elytra have scattered patches of white scales dis- 

 persed over the surface, and the thorax has the sides and a narrow 

 space along the middle also clothed with white scales. The rufous 

 patch at the apex varies in size, often extending forwards to the base 

 of the elytra, leaving only a common scutellar patch and a space at 

 the sides infuscate (Thomson's. var. c). The femora are sometimes a 

 little darker in the middle. It may be noted that in the specimens 

 before me the club and scape of the antennae are more or less infuscate, 

 and that the intermediate tibiae, as well as the hind tibiae, are hooked at 

 the apex in the males. 



The present species also bears a certain superficial resemblance 

 to Amalus TicBmorrhous, Herbst {= scortillum, Herbst), but may be 

 easily distinguished from it by the pointed prominence on each side 

 of the thorax, the 7-jointed funiculus, the more slender rostrum, &c. 



C. querceti has been recorded from Sweden, Russia, Germany, 

 and Switzerland, but it has not yet been detected in France. 



Horsell, Woking : April 21st, 1899. 



PRYTOBIVS MURICATUS, Ch. Beis. : A BRITISH INSECT. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



I possess four specimens of this species, and there are others in 

 Dr. Power's collection, all from Lee, Kent ; my own examples were 

 found during the winters of 1870 and 1871, in moss, on the banks of 

 a pond. This is probably the insect doing duty in British collections 

 for P. quadrinodosus, Gyll., whereas the name quadrmodosus should be 

 applied to the species known to us as P. denficollis, OjW. (cf. Schultze, 

 Deutsche ent. Zeitschr., 1898, p. 162). The latter is incorrectly in- 

 cluded under Bhinoncus by British authors, though it has the funiculus 

 of the antennae 6- (not 7-) jointed. P. muricafus, Bris., has the elytra 

 much broader than in P. quadrinodosus, Gyll., with the humeri promi- 

 nent and the third to the ninth interstices muricate (in P. qundri- 



