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sionally aboiinding in tlie shops of Funchal and the larger villages, where it has 

 been introduced, principally, with rice and Indian corn ; on which, especially in 

 the larva state, it almost exclusively subsists. 



(Subf. 3. CIONIDES.) 

 Genus 114. CIONUS. 



Clairville, Ent. HeJu. i. 6J. (1798). 



Corpus parvum, quadrato-ovatum, convexum, squamoso-tessellatum : rostro elongato subarcuato tereti 

 inflexo ; oculis oblongo-ovatis, in fronte paulo approximatis : prothorace parvo, elytris multo 

 angustiore, infra apicem coai-ctato : scutello cUstincto subrotundato : elytris am])lis convexis sub- 

 quadratis, anum tegentibus : alis amplissimis. Antennce breviusculse subgraciles, ante medium 

 rostri insertse ; scapo apicem versus faeilius clavato ; fuaiculo 5-articulato, articulis primo et 

 secundo longiusculis (illo crassiore), reliquis brevioribus latitudine leviter crescentibus ; capitulo 

 oblougo-ovali, obscure quadri-annulato. Pedes vix robusti, antici basi approximati : femoribm 

 subclavatis, subtus unidentatis : tihiis rectis, ad apicem truncatis muticis. 



The short, convex and subglobose body of Cionns, in conjunction with its minute 

 prothorax, ample elytra andmngs, prettily tessellated surface, 5-jointed fimlculus, 

 dentate femora, and apicaUy unarmed tibiae, will at once serve to distinguish it 

 from the neighbouring forms here described. Its 5-articulate funiculus indeed 

 is characteristic of the whole of Schonherr's smaU subfamily of Cionides, — a 

 group which would appear to possess but a single representative in these islands. 

 The Cioni are almost exclusively attached to the foliage of the Scrophularice and 

 Verhasca, on which, both in their larva and imago states, they subsist. They 

 are extremely gregarious, being usually foimd, where they exist at all, in con- 

 siderable numbers ; and even several species may be frequently observed con- 

 gregating on the same actual plant : nevertheless in Madeka I have not been able 

 hitherto to detect more than a solitary species. 



247. Clonus pulchellus. 



C. brunneus, parce griseo-squamosus, prothorace minuto nebuloso, elytris punctato-striatis, inter- 

 stitiis alternis Ifete fasciculato-tessellatis (fasciculis ex squamis atris albisque alterne compositis), 

 sutura atro-ti-imaculata (macula intermedia majore), antennis pedibusque pallido-ferrugineis, 

 femoribus in medio antennarumque capitulo obscurioribus. 



Long. Corp. liu. 1|-1t. 



Cur oulio pulchellus, Herbst, Kaf. vi. 356 (1795). 

 RJiynchcBnus Solani, GyU. (nee Fab.) Ins. Suec. iii. 216 (1813). 

 Cleojnis piilcJieUits, Steph. Ill Brit. Ent. iv. 19 (1831). 

 Cionus pulchellus, Scbon. Gen. et Spec. Cure. iv. 741 (1838). 



Habitat super plantas Scrophularice in Madera sylvatica nascentes, sestate non infrequens. 



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