74 COLEOPTERA. 



It is included in Stephens' Manual, pp. 240, 1880, under 

 the name of carinatus, Miill. I can hardly help thinking 

 that Mr. Walton cannot have been well acquainted with this 

 insect. In his paper on British Ciircul'wnid(B, (excerpted 

 from the Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1844, p. 102,) he says 

 that he found, near Mickleham, many specimens with the 

 alternate intei'stices of the elytra distinctly elevated; but, on 

 his collection being dispersed after his death, I believe there 

 was but one example of the true carinatus found in it. Mr. 

 Walton remarks that the alternate interstices in mercurialis 

 are sometimes scarcely, or very slightly, elevated ; and it is 

 not impossible that he may have mistaken specimens of the 

 latter insect, in which the interstices were elevated a little 

 more than usual for the species now under consideration. 



I took one example of carinatus in the early part of last 

 summer, between Norwood Junction and Shirley. 



The interstices are not only more distinctly elevated than 

 in mercurialis, but clothed with a row of distinct bristly 

 hairs, pointing backwards; the thorax has a much more 

 distinct, longitudinal, mesial ridge, and its sides are more 

 gradually rounded towards the front. 



57. Peritelus griseus, Oliv., Ent. v. 83, p. 358, 417, pi. 



31, fig. 475 {Curculio); Schon., Cure. ii. 512, 1; 



Redt. Faun. Austr. 740; E. W. Janson, Proc. Ent. 



Soc. 7 Nov. 1864, Ent. M. Mag. vol. i. p. 171. 

 Some specimens were exhibited at the Ent. Soc. by Mr. 

 E. W. Janson, on behalf of Mr. Sidebotham of Manchester ; 

 they are reported to have been taken at Ventnor, by Mr. 

 Wainwiight. It appears to be common in Germany and 

 France. This insect resembles an Otiorhyjichus (about the 



