Dorytomus a/t</ EUeschus. 317 



rounded at the base, the shoulders elevated and obtusely nar- 

 rowed, the sides straight, convex above, rufous-brown, punctate- 

 striate, the interstices alternately elevated ; clothed with agglu- 

 tinated cinereous scales, and with scattered, erect, white setse. 

 Legs shortish, stout, pale ferruginous and pubescent. Length 

 1^-3 lines. 



Dr. Germar, to whom I sent a British specimen of this insect 

 under the name of Bagoiis tibialis, first informed me that it was 

 unknown to him, and that it appeared to belong to another ge- 

 nus, ' Styphlus t' ; subsequently however he referred it to Erirhi- 

 nus pillumus, of which he sent me foreign specimens : it is placed 

 by Schiinherr in the first section {Notaris) of his genus Erirhinus ; 

 it is here located in his second section {Dorytormis of authors) of 

 that genus. 



Extremely local : I once found many specimens in the month 

 of June on the wild cha&omile {Matricaria Chamomilla) on dry 

 hedge-banks, on the road-sides leading to Low Layton, from 

 Stratford in Essex. 



Genus Elleschus, Megerle, Schonh., Steph. — Hypera, Germ. 



1. Elleschus Scanicus, Pk., Gyll.. Schonh. Supp. vii. p. 187. 

 Erirhinus pallidesignatus, Schonh. dim. 



Oblong, testaceous, unequally clothed with pale cinereous hairs. 

 Head rotundate, nigro-piceous, thickly punctulated ; eyes black, 

 depressed ; rostrum as long as the thorax, cylindrical, as thick as 

 the same part in E. bipunctatus ; testaceous, shining, rather 

 smooth, sometimes piceous at the base. Antennae entirely pale 

 testaceous. Thorax narrowed anteriorly, a little dilated and 

 rounded at the sides, subdepressed above, testaceous, thickly 

 and minutely punctured. Elytra scarcely twice as broad as the 

 base of the thorax, the shoulders nearly rectangular, the sides 

 straight, four times the length of the thorax, convex above, 

 deeply punctate-striate, the interstices plane, rather smooth ; 

 rufo-testaceous with a large pitchy black patch at the base, 

 sometimes however extending beyond the middle of the elytra, 

 and sometimes partially broken up by the rufous ground colour, 

 the outer margins piceous ; the suture densely, the base and disk 

 sparingly, clothed with pale cinereous hairs ; the breast black, 

 densely covered with white hairs. Legs rather short, stout, 

 totally rufous, pubescent ; femora robust, veiy obsoletely denti- 

 culated within. Length 2 lines. 



One insect with the name ' Scanicus ' in the collection of Kirby 

 from Gyllenhal, and three others in my possession from Germar, 

 specifically agree with an immature specimen found by Mr. Wol- 

 laston in Lincolnshire ; in Sweden it is found on the aspen.^ 



