NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 89 



92. Urodon rufipes. Fab., S. E., ii, 401 {Bruchus) \ 



(Gyll.) Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure, v, 142; Eedt., 

 Fauna Austr., Ed. 2, 673 ; D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col. ; 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, 84. 



" Taken by Mr. Plant, at Leicester." 



The genus Urodon, Schon. (new to the British lists), the 

 connecting link between the Brucliidce and Anthribidce, has 

 the antennce inserted at the sides of the very short, broad 

 rostrum, with three distinctly larger apical joints ; the eyes 

 round, the scutellum rounded, the elytra not striate, and 

 only slightly longer than broad, the femora un-toothed, the 

 tibice slender and not mucronate at tlie apex, the posterior 

 coxoe close together, &c. 



U. rufii)esj which seems to frequent the flowers of Reseda, 

 is recorded from the south of France, Austria, Spain and 

 Algiers : it is about the size of average Bruchus loti; black, 

 thickly clothed with grey pubescence, with reddish-yellow 

 antennae and legs, and the hinder femora blackish at the 

 apex. 



93. Thyamis rutila, lllig. ; Allard, Mon. Alt. (L'Abeille, 



iii, 403), 235; E. C. Rye, L c, vii, 206. 



Distinguished from T. jacohcece, Waterh. {tahida, auct., 

 nee Fab.) by its deeper red colour, and its much stronger and 

 more evident punctuation, which on the elytra is disposed in 

 striae near the base. 



This species has already been in some British catalogues ; 

 but the specimens on which it was introduced are (as I have 

 satisfied myself by inspection) merely red individuals of the 

 common insect above mentioned. Mr. Moncreaff, however, 

 has taken several examples of the true rutila, near South- 

 sea. Allard mentions Scropliularia aquatica as its food- 

 plant. 



