140 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Apion. 
Woods ; Barton Moss, Cheshire ; Yorkshire ; Northumberland and Durham district ; 
Scotland, rare, Solway, Tweed and Forth districts ; Ireland, Dublin, Waterford and 
Armagh; the species extends over Europe and the Mediterranean district, and 
northern and central Asia. 
Group 2. 
Upper surface strongly squamose ; antennce inserted at the base of the 
rostrum which is furnished with a strong tooth on each side at the 
point of their insertion ; elytra with the second stria united behind to the 
eighth (Oxystoma, Steph.); (on furze, broom and Genista). 
A. ulicis, Forst. Oblong, rather convex, black, covered with 
thick white scaly pubescence, so that the insect appears to be ofa silvery 
grey colour; head short, rugosely punctured; eyes convex ; rostrum 
varying in the sexes, narrow and almost straight, brownish-black or 
somewhat ferruginous; antennee slender, more or less testaceous, with 
the club darker; thorax scarcely longer than broad, convex, with sides 
narrowed in front, rounded behind middle and contracted at base, finely 
and closely punctured, with a short stria before scutellum ; scutellum 
black, glabrous ; elytra convex, broader at base than thorax, not dilated 
behind, with fine striae and broad finely rugose interstices ; underside 
thickly squamose ; legs dark, more or less pitchy, anterior pair often 
reddish. L. 2-2$ mm. 
Male with the rostrum and antennz considerably shorter than in the 
female. 
On Ulex Europeus (common furze) and U. nanus; common and generally dis- 
tributed throughout the greater part of the kingdom, 
A. genistz, Kirby. Oval, rather robust, thickly covered with 
silvery white and fawn-coloured elongate scales, the sides of thorax, 
underside of body and three central interstices of each elytra being light 
and the remainder brownish ; rostrum moderate, curved, antenne dark, 
reddish towards base; head short, eyes prominent ; thorax broader at 
base than long, slightly narrowed in front, closely and rather strongly 
punctured ; elytra ovate, rather broad, with sides strongly rounded, striz 
fine ; legs red, tarsi black. L. 1{-2} mm. 
On Genista tinctoria and G@. anglica; very local, but not uncommon where it 
occurs; Wanstead, Wimbledon, Esher, Horsell, Woking, Reigate, Weybridge, Bear- 
sted, near Maidstone ; Suffolk; New Forest; Glanvilles Wootton; Scotland, rare, 
Moray district. 
A. fuscirostre, F. More elongate and parallel-sided than the pre- 
ceding, black, clothed rather sparingly with whitish and cinnamon- 
coloured elongate scales ; the general colour is brown with the sides of 
the elytra and an oblique band on each reaching from shoulders to 
suture, white: the scales, however, are very often abraded ; head short, 
coarsely punctured, rostrum moderately long, more strongly toothed at 
the insertion of the antenne than in the preceding species; thorax 
