Plate XXV. 



Fig. 215. MAGDALINUS CARBONARIUS, L. [_F. Erirhinida. G. Magdalinus, 

 Schoenh.'\ (Magdalis cavbonarius, Curtis.) 



Elongate, black, moderately sinning. Head minutely pnnctate, with a shallow impression 

 between the eyes; rostrum a trifle longer than the thorax, slightly curved, thickly minutely 

 rugulose-punctate; antennas pitchy at the base. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, constricted 

 in front; sides more or less rounded and armed anteriorly with three or four obtuse crenulations; 

 thickly and coarsely punctate; with an obscure central raised line, abbreviated in front. Elytra 

 shining, each with nine deep, broad, coarsely and closely punctate stria;; interstices convex, 

 narrow, transversely strigose. All the femora with a minute tooth in the centre beneath. Length, 

 2^-3 1 linos. Kare. In the north of England, and in Scotland, in birch. 



Fig. 216. OTIORHYNCHUS MAURUS, G., C. [_F. Otiorhynchid«. G. Otiorhynclius, G.] 



Ovate, convex, black, clothed with a short, coarse, sparse pubescence, sub-opaque. Head and 

 rostrum coarsely punctate, the latter with a central ridge; anteuut-e pitchy. Thorax transverse, 

 convex, sides rounded, thickly and coarsely granulate, with an obscure central channel. Elytra 

 ovate, faintly punctate-striate; interstices slightly convex, minutely granulate. Legs pitchy. 

 Femora unarmed. Length, 3|-4 lines. Kare in the south; more frequent in the Shetland Isles. 



Fig. 217. LIXUS ANGUSTATUS, Fab., Curtis. [_F. Erirhinidse. G. Lixus, Fab.'] 



Elongate, black, with a sparse, short, grey pubescence, and more or less densely covered with a 

 yellow caducious pollinosity. Head and rostrum thickly and finely punctate; the former with a 

 minute fovea between the eyes; tlie latter stout, sub-cylindrical, as long as the thorax, slightly 

 curved, with a short central furrow between the autennte. Thorax elongate, narrowed in front, 

 sides slightly rounded; coarsely rugulose-punctate ; with central furrow at base. Elytra nearly 

 half as wide again as the thorax, and thrice as long, sides nearly parallel, thickly rugulose- 

 punctate; each with ten rows of oblong, shallow punctures; interstices flat. Length, 6-9 lines. 



Not common. Sydenham, Kent ; and on the Sussex coast, near Hastings, on thistles. 



Fig. 218. ANTHONOMUS POMORUM, L., Curtis. Apple-weevil. [F. Erirhinidse. 

 G. Antbonomus, Gerinar.~\ 



Elongate, pitchy brown, clothed with a fine, depressed, yellowish grey pubescence; elytra with 

 a reddish yellow curved band behind. Head pitchy black, tliickly punctate; rostrum black, longer 

 than the head and thorax, slender, bent, with four deep furrows posteriorly; minutely and irregu- 

 harly punctate anteriorly ; antenna? fen-uginous, club fuscous. Thorax transverse, narrowed in 

 front, constricted at the apex; sides slightly rounded in front, nearly straight behind; disc rather 

 flat; thickly and somewhat coarsely punctate. Scutellum clad with a dense white pubescence. 

 Elytra oblong, wider than the thorax, slightly dilated at the sides posteriorly; each with ten coarsely 

 punctate striw ; interstices flat, sparsely, and very minutely punctate; and with an oblique curved 

 reddish yellow band, tessellated on its margins with small patches of white hairs, and bounded 

 both in front and. behind by a pitchy black bar. Thighs reddish brown, ferruginous at the tips 

 the anterior armed beneath with a large, the posterior with a minute tooth; tibite and tarsi ferru- 

 ginous. Length, 2-2| lines. Common in orchards — in the spring on the blossoms; in the 

 winter concealed in the crevices and beneath the scales of loose bark of the apple and pear-tree. 



Fig. 219. ERIRHINUS iETHIOPS, Fab., Curt. [F. ErirhinidEe. G. Erirhinus, Sch.'] 



Elongate ovate, black, shining; antennas and legs red brown, the club of the fonner fuscous. 

 Head thickly punctate; rostrum as long as the head and thorax, bent, sparsely punctate, the 

 punctures linear. Thorax nearly as long as broad, slightly rounded at the sides, straightly 

 truncate at the base; coarsely punctate on the disc, more finely and thickly at the sides; with a 

 narrow, smooth, central line. Elytra elongate ovate, thrice as long as the thorax; deeply punctate- 

 striate; interstices flat, exceedingly finely punctate. Thighs unarmed. Length, 3 lines. 



Very rare. Found in marshy places at Askham Bryant, Yorkshire, and in Scotland. 



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