NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1865. Ill 



parative want of setae, and usually clear rufous legs and 

 rostrum. 



It occurs not uncommonly on the south coast, and seems 

 not to be accomj3anied by the type troglodytes. 



87. Gymxetron villosulus, Schon. Syn. Ins. iv. 747, 

 4; G. R. Crotch, *' The Entomologist," vol. i. p. 

 218. 

 beccabungcB, Walton, Wat. Cat. ()iec Linn.). 

 Mr. Crotch has forwarded his series of Gyvmetron to 

 M. H. Brisout de Barneville, who has recently revised that 

 genus in the French *' Annales;" the result being that cer- 

 tain changes appear to be necessary in the names of some 

 of our species, and that one is added to our list. 



In reproducing M. de Barneville's analysis, Mr. Crotch 

 remarks that in this genus the sexes often vary considerably ; 

 the male being known by the impression on the metaster- 

 num, and first ventral segment, and by the shorter and more 

 punctate rostrum ; also that the species group themselves 

 naturally under three heads, which have been regarded as 

 sub-o[enera and may be thus distinfi^uished : — 

 I. Rostrum filiform, sub-linear; elytra sub-'^ 



ovate, slightly convex, almost covering r Gymnetron, proper, 

 the pygidium . . . . . . ..^ 



1 1. Rostrum straight or attenuated, received \ 



into a channel of the thorax; elytra /■ Rhinusa, SteTph. 

 sub-quadrate ; pygidium exposed . . >' 

 III. Rostrum filiform, bent, received into a\ 



channel of the thorax ; antennae fine, V Miarus, Steph. 



lub oblonj 



The present species, recognised by its depressed, almost 

 silky pubescence, and found on Veronica Anagallis, appears 

 to have been erroneously considered as the true beccabungce 

 by Walton. Mr. Crotch has found it abundantly at AVey- 



