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the stem ; extremely local ; it has only been found in this country by Mr. Walton, 
who many years ago took it in abundance near the Tivoli Gardens, Margate; the 
Species occurs rather rarely in central and southern Europe and Algeria. 
A. rufirostre, F. (malvarum, Kirby). Black, elytra with a more 
or less distinct greenish-sneous reflection, upper surface very scantily 
pubescent ; head rather broad, striated between eyes, rostrum varying 
in the sexes; thorax a little longer than broad, narrowed in front, 
regularly, rather closely and distinctly punctured, with a fovea before 
scutellum ; elytra widened, with fine stries which are almost impunctate, 
and very broad interstices which are rather shining ; antenne reddish 
testaceous, darker in female, legs red, with apex of tarsidark, L.3 mm. 
Male with the rostrum reddish-yellow for its apical half, punctured, 
much shorter than in female; under-side clothed with thick white 
Squamose pubescence, apex of abdomen red. 
Female with the rostrum entirely biack, longer and smoother, the 
sides of the breast clothed with thick whitish pubescence, and the apex 
of abdomen and anterior coxe black. 
On mallows ; the larva has been observed in the seed vessels of Malva sylvestris 
and M. rotundifolia ; common and genera'ly distributed from Yorkshire southwards, 
but rarer further north; Northumberland and Durham districts, very rare; not 
recorded from Scotland; Ireland, near Dublin. 
A. viciz, Payk. A rather short and broad species which bears a 
considerable resemblance to A. ervi in shape and in the fact that the 
antenne are entirely yellow in the male and partially black in the female ; 
upper surface rather dull, clothed with fine whitish pubescence ; head 
rather broad, striated between eyes; thorax subtransverse constricted in 
front, coarsely and regularly punctured, with a channel before scutellum 
reaching middle; elytra globose-obovate, with punctured striae and flat 
interstices ; legs rather long. L. 2 mm. 
Male with the rostrum punctured and pubescent, the antenne entirely 
yellow, and the under side of the eye and the under surface of the body 
clothed with white squamose pubescence ; the intermediate and posterior 
tibize are black with the basal third red.* 
Female with the rostrum more slender and more curved, smooth and 
shining, dull at base, the antenne fuscous towards apex, and the inter- 
mediate and posterior tibize black with base at most pitchy. 
On Vicia ecracca ; locally common; Wimbledon, Caterham, Birch Wood, Chatham, 
Rusper, near Maidstone ; Eastbourne; Thorness Bay, Isle of Wight; Exeter; 
Bideford ; Wicken Fen; Midland districts, generally distributed; Repton, Burton- 
on-Trent ; Yorkshire (very common, Walton); Barton Moss, Cheshire ; Liverpool 
district ; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, Solway, Tweed, Forth 
and Tay districts ; Ireland, Waterford and near Belfast. 
Group 6, 
Upper surface black ; legs wholly or in part red ; pubescence very slight 
or absent (chiefly on species of Trifolium), 
* On page 133, line 7, ‘* base” should be read for “ apex.” See Vol. I. Introduction, 
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