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in the utmost abundance, getting as many as 30 in the net at a time, yet in 

 parts of the field where buttercups were wanting, or were scattered singly at 

 wide intervals, the weevil was absent. B. jtellucidus occiured there also, but 

 was very scarce. This species, however, I had previously obtained in satisfactory 

 members in May, 1907, by sweeping buttercups in Bush Hill Park, Enfield. 

 Stray examples of both species have several times occurred to me by beating 

 hedges, but in every case the hedge bordered a field in which R. bulbosus was 

 growing. 



Everts (I.e., p. 575) records the occurrence of B. pellucidus in Holland in 

 the nests of Lasws niger und flavus. An allied species, B. tener Boh., stated by 

 him to be common in the Dutch province of Gelderland on beeches (beulten) and 

 under fallen beech leaves, is also, he says, "very common near Doom in the 

 nests of Formica rufa and Lasius fuliginosus." These ants' -nest records seem 

 somewhat remai'kalile, and I cannot find any similar instances amongst our 

 British weevils. 



Liophloeus tessulatus Mull, {nuhilus F.). — According to I'owler (I.e., p. 192), 

 ivy is the principal food-plant of this fine weevil, and he mentions its having 

 been foiind in numbers at Long Benton, Northumberland, feeding on this plant. 

 Bedel (Col. Bassin Seine, VI, p. 50) also associates it with ivy ("se trouve 

 ordinairement en battent les lierres"). In some, at least, of its British 

 habitats, however, it seems to prefer the large umbellif er, Heracleum sphondylium, 

 as a pabulum, as in the Lea Valley I have found it almost exclusively on that 

 plant. I have swept it on several occasions since 1898 from Heracleum at 

 Edmonton, Cheshunt, and Broxbourne, though chiefly by single specimens ; at 

 Enfield, however, in Ji^ne, 1911, I came across a considerable colony living on 

 numerous plants of the umbellifer which were growing along the border of a 

 cultivated field. I have beaten a single example of Liophloeus at Chingford out 

 of a hedge containing ivy, but even then could not be certain that it had not 

 come from an adjoining field in which Heracleum was growing. 



Everts (I.e., p. 581) writing of it as a Dutch species, says that it occurs 

 " on shrubs and on the ground ; sometimes on Rumex acetosa." 



Cneorrhinus {Philopedon) plagiatus ScJiall. (geminatus F.). — One usually 

 associates this weevil with coast sandhills, where it is found abundantly about 

 the roots of marram-grass or other low plants, or crawling on the sand, rarely 

 occurring inland. In May, 1906, however, I met with it at Brandon, Stiff oik, 

 not only under plants in a sandy field, but also in numbers on broom bushes. 

 I have not been able to find any other record of it from broom, but it may be 

 recalled that there is an interesting note in this Magazine, Vol. XXVII, 

 p. 333 (1891), of its having occurred in France in that year in large numbers on 

 the vine ; an allied species, C. Mspanus Hbst., v. ludificator Gyll., being also 

 mentioned as having appeared in great abundance in the same year on vines in 

 Portugal. Mr, Champion has met with sevei'al species of the sub-genus 

 Atactogenus, allied to C. dispar Graells, on broom-like plants, species of Genista 

 and Cytisus, in Spain, while C. (Atactogenus) exaratus Marsh, lives on young 

 trees (oak, &c.) 



