Plate XXV. — Continued. 



Fig. 220. PHYTONOMUS FASCICUL.\TUS, Herbst. [F. Clcouidre. G. Phytonomus, 

 Schoenh.^ (Hypei*a fasciculosa, Curtis.) 



Short ovate, black, clothed with black, reddish brown, yellow, and white scales. Head with 

 reddish brown scales, its vertex and base of rostrnm with ashy hairs ; rostrum short, stout, 

 dc'flexed, and slightly curved; antenna; ferruginous, pubescent. Tiiorax transverse, sides dilated 

 and rounded, clotheil with brown .ind yellowish .scales, with a narrow central and broad lateral 

 line of yellowish white scales. Elytra broad, covered with reddish brown scales ; deeply striate ; 

 interstices convex, the sutural, third, and fifth broader than the others, and rai.sed, clothed with 

 whitish, and tessellated with black or brown scales. Legs reddish brown ; thighs variegated with 

 white, brown, and black scales ; tibiai and tarsi vrith coarse cinereous hairs. Length, 3-4 lines. 



Not common, but very widely distributed. Dover; Deal; Norfolk; Isle of Thanet, Scotland, &c. 



Fig. 221. RIIYXCHITES OPHTHALMICUS, Stqj/i. (Male.) [F. Attelabidse. G. 

 Ilhyuchites, Herbst.^ (R. siuiilis, Curtis.) 



Oblong, deep blue, shining, with a fine, long, erect, black pubescence. Head narrow behind, 

 widening to the eyes, sparsaly and rather coarsely punctate; forehead flat, or slightly excavated; 

 rostrum barely as long as the head, dilated towards the apex, sparsely punctate at the base, thickly 

 at the tip; parts of the mouth pitchy; antennje black. Thorax elongate, narrowed in front; sides 

 slightly rounded anteriorly, sparselj' and coarsely jiunctate. Elytra oblong, nearly twice as wide 

 as the thorax, sides nearl}' parallel; striate; the stria? deeply, remotely, and coar.sely punctate; 

 interstices fiat, each with two irregular rows of minute j)uiietures. Legs greenish, tarsi black. 

 The female has tiie head shorter, swollen behind the eyes, and the forehead convex. Length, 

 21-2 h lines. 



Not uncommon in woods, in the south, on the whitethorn. 



Fig. 222. APION DIFFORME, Germ., Curt. (Male.) [F. Attelabids. G. Apion, Hrrbst.] 



Elongate ovate, black, the elytra faintly olivaceous; base of antenna>, of femora, and of tibia^, 

 reddish yellow. Head coarsely confluently punctate; rostrum nearly as long as the head and thorax, 

 slightly bent, broad, with parallel sides. to the base of antenna-, thence narrowed to tip, obscurely 

 punctate; antenna' mesial, reddish yellow, apical articulations fuscous, basal joint elongate pear- 

 shajjed, 2d minute, .3(1 nearly as broad as long, compressed, 4th as wide as the 3d, but more 

 elongate, .'itli, (Uli, 7tli, and 8th, narrow, of equal width, the remaining three forming a slender 

 elongate club. Tiiorax elongate, narrowed in front; sides rounded; tliiokly punctate, a central 

 line behind. Elytra elongate ovate, much narrowed at apex, convex, deeply striate, the stri;v 

 finely jiunctate; interstices convex, smooth. Anterior tibia? bent, basal joint of their tarsi elon- 

 gate, with the ajiex produced on the inner side; posterior tibia' robust, bent, the basal joint of 

 their tarsi broad and flat. In the female the rostrum is longer, slender, cylindrical, and niucli 

 curved; the anteniue are slender and black; the anterior tibia; straight, their tarsi simple; the 

 posterior tibiie slender and straight, and the basal joint of tarsi does not exceed the others in 

 width; tibia? and tarsi entirely black; thighs reddish "yellow, tips black. Length, li lines. 



In grassy places in woods, in the autumn. 



Fig. 223. POLYDROSUS SERICEUS, Schall. [F. Brachj dcrid;e. G. Polydrosns, 

 Germar.'l (^- speciosus, Curtis.) 



Elongate, black, clothed with round, green, or bluish green scales; antenna? and legs pale 

 reddish yellow, club of the former dusky. Head with a fovea iu front; rostrum short, deflexed. 

 Thorax transver.se, narrowed in front, sides rounded. Elytra sub-cylindrical, each with ten 

 profound coarsely and deeply punctate stria- ; interstices flat. Femora and base of tibia? with 

 a few scattered green scales. Length, 3-4 lines. 



Very rare. Kimpton, Hants. ' 



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