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head finely punctured ; thorax with the sides rounded and dilated, disc 
moderately, closely, and regularly, but not strongly punctured, with 
a more or less distinet central furrow; scutellum rather small ; elytra 
with rather shallow punctured striz, the punctures being moderately strong 
towards base and obsolete at apex, which is almost smooth; antenne 
black ; legs unicolorous with body, rather strongly pubescent. L.. 65— 
83 mm. 7 
On young hazel, birch, oak, &e; in woods; not common but rather widely dis- 
tributed from Lincolnshire southwards ; it appears often to occur by single specimens ; 
Darenth Wood; Coombe Wood; Epping Forest; Chobham; Westerham, Kent; 
Monks Wood; Hastings district; Lords Wood, Southampton; New Forest ; 
Portsmouth District ; Fordlands, Devon; Bewley; Coventry; Robins Wood and 
Bretby Wood, Repton; Langworth Wood, Lincoln; I know of no locality further 
north. 
This is a large and conspicuous species and may easily be known by 
its size, very strong villose pubescence, and by the fact that the strie of 
the elytra become obsolete at apex. 
DEPORAWS, Leach. 
This genus, as characterized by Bedel and Sharp, includes two British 
species, of which one, D. megacephalus, was regarded by Stephens and 
Leach as belonging to Rhynchites proper ; they are, however, very closely 
allied in several points, and the characters of the genus as now constituted 
are more satisfactory than those assigned to it by the old authors ; a 
third species, D. tristis, occurs in France ; the females roll up cases of 
leaves for their larve, as in the other genera. 
I. Elytra greenish-blue ; shape narrower and more elon- 
gate; male with the posterior femora not dilated D. MEGAcEPHALUS, Germ. 
II. Insect entirely black; shape broader and less elon- 
gate; male with the posterior femora strongly 
dilated (eer it tat eto (st hewn c ten fe) oul oy ce 6 | DL BERULA D, 
D. megacephalus, Germ. (constrictus, Gyll., levicollis, Steph., 
Mannerheimi, Hummel). Black, or greenish-black, with the elytra 
greenish-blue, clothed with thin and fine greyish pubescence ; rostrum 
dilated at apex, sulcate at base; head large, together with eyes a little 
broader than thorax, vertex long, diffusely and plainly punctured ; thorax 
subovate, rounded at sides, closely and rather finely punctured; elytra 
much broader than thorax, with deep and regular punctured striz, inter- 
stices slightly convex and obsoletely punctured in rows; legs blue-black 
with the tarsi scarcely shorter than the tibie and the first joint elongate ; 
in the male the rostrum is shorter than in the female. L. 3-4 mm. 
On young birches ; in woods, &e. ; local, but not uncommon where it occurs; Darenth 
Wood, Wokiug, Birch Wood, Coombe Wood, West Wickham; Wrabness, Hssex ; 
Hastings; Faygate, Sussex; Bewdley; Cannock Chase; Knowle; Bretby Wood, 
Repton; Halifax district ; Barton Moss and Chat Moss; Stretford district, near 
Manchester; Northumberland and Durham district (** Durham,” Ormsby’s Durhair) ; 
Scotland, local on birch, Solway, Tweed, Forth, Moray, and probably other districts. 
