118 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Apoderus. 
longer in the male than in the female, with the anterior margin emar- 
ginate, and the sides straighter and less rounded, in both sexes with a 
deep central furrow at right angles to a transverse basal furrow ; often 
there is an oblong black spot on disc; scutellum large, transverse, 
shining black, punctured at base and raised behind ; elytra depressed, 
much broader than thorax, dehiscent at apex, with shoulders very strongly 
marked, and with strong rows of punctures, interstices finely sculptured, 
second and fourth raised towards base ; legs long, femora clavate, with 
teeth not apparent. L. 6-7 mm. 
On young hazels; local, but not uncommon where it occurs ; it is very conspicuous 
as it sits on the leaves in the sun ; Chatham, Darenth Wood, Leith Hill, Mickleham, 
Hampstead, Sheppy; Hastings; Portsmouth district; Southampton; Glanvilles 
Wootton; Fordlands and Barnstaple, Devon (in the latter locality occasionally on 
birch (Rev. H. Matthews) ); Swansea; Caubridye; Malvern; Bewdley, &c.; 
Repton, Burton-on-Trent ; Langworth Wood near Lincoln; Cawood, Yorkshire ; 
Northumberland and Durham district, scarce, Castle Eden Dene; Scotland, rare, 
Solway, Tweed and Forth districts; it is never abundant, but apparently occurs in 
most of the large Midland and Mid-eastern woods in June and July. 
ATTELABUS, Linné (Cyphus, Thunberg see Bedel). 
This genus comprises about a hundred species which are distributed 
very widely over the surface of the globe both in temperate and tropical 
countries, but are much more characteristic of the latter, the species 
being especially numerous in Tropical America; they form a transition 
between the Attelabina and the Rhynchitina, and may easily be known 
from Apoderus by the subquadrate head, which is not pedunculate, the 
narrowly separated intermediate coxe, and the fact that the epimera of 
the metasternum are rudimentary and glabrous and covered by the 
elytra, whereas in .Apoderus they are long and pubescent and not 
covered. 
A. curculionoides, L. (Cyphus nitens, Scop.). Black, smooth and 
shining, with the thorax and elytra bright red or reddish testaceous ; 
head not constricted into a neck at base, rostrum somewhat dilated 
towards apex, antenne short, with a rather long, three-jointed, club ; 
thorax a little broader than long, diffusely and finely punctured ; 
scutellum large, black ; elytra with rows of rather shallow punctures, 
interstices with scattered punctures; legs long, femora clavate, tibie 
denticulate on their inner side. L. 4-6 mm. 
Male with the anterior tibie armed with a single corneous curved 
hook, situated at the apical internal angle; abdomen with tufts of 
reddish hairs at the sides of the central line. 
Female with the anterior tibiz armed with two curved hooks at apex; 
abdomen glabrous. 
On young oaks, &c. ; somewhat local but widely distributed ; London district, 
common, Chatham, Darenth Wood, Shooters Hill, Mickleham, Woking, Croydon, 
Westerham, Chobham, Sandhurst, Dulwich, Abbey Wood; Norfolk; Suffolk; Dover; 
