2(3 [Febrwiirj", 



with the distinctive characters of the two species, says (Ann. and Mag^. 

 Nat. Hist., XIII, 1844, pp. 88, 89) that Stephens had many of each 

 from the Marshamian collection. 



Although Walton (^c, p. 87) writes as though the form of aeneo- 

 virens with blue or bluish-green elytra (ab. fragariae Gyll.) was 

 familiar to him, it seems to be unknown to present-day collectors in 

 this country.* According to Schilsky the minuUie of Herbst is an 

 entirely blue or violet form of aeneovirens. For me, B. pauxillns is 

 most easily distinguished by its arcuate temples ; in the dorsal aspect 

 the head is constricted immediately behind the eyes and again next the 

 front edge of the thorax, the sides forming a continuous outward 

 curve ; Mr. Joy has been good enough to lend me an example taken by 

 S. Stevens off whitethorn at Shirley. I have taken B. interpundatvs 

 off oak, in May, at Bixley, near Norwich, and Monkham Wood, Coles- 

 borne ; it may be distinguished at a glance from germavicus by its 

 more oblong form, and wider and flatter interstices. Specimens of 

 B. aequatus with the suture blackish (ab. payhuUi Schilsky) are quite 

 as frequent as the others. I have taken B. harwoodi at Foxley Wood, 

 Norfolk, at the same time as B. tonientosio^ ; and B. mavnerhehui off 

 birch at Colesborne on three occasions, but always singly. 



Colesborne, Cheltenhaia : 

 Nov. nth, 1916. 



STUDIES IN RHYNCHOPHORA. 



BY D. SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. 



1.— Tribe PSEUDOBAaOlNI. 



I wish to express my thanks to Messrs. G. A. K. Marshall, 

 Champion, Bedwell, Day, Tomlin and Britten, as well as to Hvigh 

 Scott of the Cambridge Museum, who have assisted me by the com- 

 munication of specimens of Pi^endohagoim, as to which tribe a 

 preliminary note was published in this Magazine for December last 

 (p. 275). 



PSEUDOBAGOINI, trib. no v. Erirhinormn. 



Tarsi vel subfiUformes, vel breves articulo tertio bilobato. Tibiae ad apicem 

 intus uncatae. 



* I have taken the form of /;. ai aiorirciu with 1>hie-gi'eeu elytra at Dareiith Wood and 

 WokhiK, and in the New Forest.— G, C. C. 



