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and Magazine,' now little accessible. The voluminous work 

 of Schonherr, from its very nature a compilation, is gradually 

 undergoing a revision, and by no means before it is wanted, 

 at the hands of MM. Allard, Stierlin, Kraatz, De Barneville, 

 &c. ; and it is my intention to translate, from time to time, 

 such portions of the Monographs now publishing as may 

 apply to our English Fauna. 



Early in the spring I forwarded my series of Gymnetron 

 to M. de Barneville, which he has kindly returned with his 

 names attached : these differ, fortunately, but very little from 

 those generally in use, and only one new species is added. 

 In this genus the sexes often vary considerably ; the male 

 may be known by the impression on the metasternum and 

 first ventral segment, as also by the shorter and more punc- 

 tate rostrum. The species group themselves naturally under 

 three heads, which have been regarded as sub-genera, and 

 may be thus distinguished : — 



i. Rostrum filiform, sublinear ; elytra subovate, slightly con- 

 vex, almost covering the pygidium .... Gymnetron, i. sp. 

 ii. Rostrum straight or attenuated, received into a channel 

 of the thorax ; elytra subquadrate ; pygidium exposed. 



Rhinusa, Steph. 



iii. Rostrum filiform, bent, received into a channel of the 



thorax ; antennas fine, club oblong .... Miarus, Steph. 



I shall first reproduce M. de Barneville's Analysis, and 

 afterwards give some description of the species separately. 

 In the tabulation the species in Italics are those not yet dis- 

 covered in Britain. 



i. Gymnetron (i. sp.) 



A 1. Elytra variable in colour, more or less ferruginous or 

 testaceous. 

 B 1. Pubescence double. 



Pascnorum, Oyll. ; ictericus, Schh. 

 B 2. Pubescence simple. 



villosulus, Schh. ; Beccabungae, L. 

 A 2, Elytra ferruginous, with oblique black bands. 



labilis, Hb. 

 A 3. Elytra black, furnished posteriorly with a red spot. 



stimulostis, Germ. 

 A 4. Elytra black Rostellum, Hb. ; melanarius, Germ, 



