44 [July, 



NOTES ON NEW BRITISH COLEOPTERA SINCE 1871; 



WITH NOTICES OP DOUBTFUL SPECIES, AND OP OTHEES THAT 



REQUIRE TO BE OMITTED PROM THE BRITISH LIST. 



BY THE BEV. W. W. FOWLER, M.A., F.L.S. 



{Concluded from vol. xix, ^^. 270). 



EIIYNCHOPHORA. 



Apion opETicrM, Bach. 



Allied to A. pomoncB, P., but differs from it in its smaller size, its inTariably 

 black colour, its rostrum being more abruptly contracted a little behind the middle, 

 and less dilated at the base in both sexes, and in having a less elongate club to its 

 antennse. Two specimens (male and female) were taken by Dr. Power at Hastings 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xi, 156). 



Apion scrobicolle, Gyll. 



There is no authority for this insect, and it must, consequently, bo omitted. 



Apion annulipes, Wenck. 



Two female specimens of this insect were taken by Mr. Champion and Mr. Eye 

 at Mickleham in 1870. They differ from the same sex of A.flavimanum, Gyll., their 

 close ally, in their entirely black and very much stouter legs and wider tarsi, brilliant 

 and very finely punctured rostrum, &c. ; the male appears to have the antennse 

 testaceous, except the club, and the tibiae marked with testaceous colour before the 

 base (Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, 159). 



Apion Etei, Blackburu. 



This species is separated from all the rest in the group with the femora and 

 anterior tibiae alone yellow, by its short, broad, sparingly punctured thorax, which is 

 scarcely, if at all, longer than broad, and has its sides very evidently rounded ; it 

 is most nearly allied to A. fagi, L., from which it differs in its shorter and more 

 strongly bent rostrum, and in its antennae, which have a darker base. Taken by Mr. 

 C. Lilley and Rev. T. Blackburn in the Shetland Islands, in July, 1874 (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xi, 128). 



Cathobmiocerus maeitimus, Eye. 



Differs from C. sociiis, Boh., in being more robustly built, flatter, darker, and 

 much more strongly punctured, with more prominent eyes, and the funiculus and 

 club of the antennse (comparing both sexes) distinctly broader and shorter. Taken 

 by Mr. Moncreaff at Portsea (Ent. Mo. Mag., x, 176). 



£usomus ovulum, 111. 



This is, according to Dr. Sharp, an introduced species, and very doubtful as 

 British. 



Otiorrliynchus monticola. Germ. 



0. blandus, Gyll., must be substituted for this species, as all the Scotch speci- | 

 mens named O. monticola really belong to O. blandus. 



