152 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Apron. 
1877, the year after I began collecting Coleoptera, I beat a considerable number of 
specimens out of a hedge near Broekenharst, New Forest, but as I did not know the 
species I paid no attention to it and only kept three or four examples; I have only 
seen one male of the species, which is in Dr. Power’s collection. 
A. Kookeri, Kirby. Short and broad, black, rather dull, sometimes 
with a slight greenish reflection, scantily pubescent; head short and 
broad, eyes rather prominent ; rostrum about as long as head and thorax, 
dilated and dull at base, narrowed and rather shining in front; thorax 
subglsbose, convex, more narrowed in front than behind, with fine and 
very close punctuation and an obsolete fovea or channel at base ; elytra 
obiong-oval, with well-marked shoulders, and deep punctured strie, 
interstices flat, very finely and transversely shagreened ; legs moderately 
long and stout. L 2-25 mm. 
Male smaller, with the rostrum shorter, and the elytra usually black, 
rarely greenish. 
Female larger, with the rostrum longer, and the elytra usually greenish ; 
the antenne also are somewhat longer and more slender than in the 
male, 
On Matricaria chamomilla, Hieracium umbellatum, Trifolium pratense, &e.: 
local; London district, not uncommon, Claygate, Esher, Caterham, Shirley, 
Woking, bexley, Chatham, Sheerness, Gravesend, Dartford, Whitstable; Shipley, 
near Horsham; Hastings; Bognor; Worthing: Portsmouth ; Southampton; New 
Forest ; Bournemouth; Isle of Wight, Ventnor, Sandown, &.; Devon (larve feed- 
ing on the heads of flowers of Matricaria inodora, V’. maritima) ; Corwen ; Lowestoft ; 
Wicken Fen ; Erdington; Knowle, near Birmingham; Harrogate. 
Group 9. 
Rather long and large, more or less metallic, species with the inter- 
mediate ecxce broadly distant (on mallows and thistles). 
A. zeneum, F. A large convex species, black, with the elytra 
metallic, blue, greenish, or occasionally coppery ; pubescence very fine 
and scanty; forehead with a strong and deep longitudinal furrow, a point 
that will easily distinguish the species; rostrum thick, cylindrical, 
slightly dilated at sides, plainly punctured ; antenne rather short and 
thick ; thorax longer than broad, somewhat constricted in front, coarsely 
punctured, with a deep furrow or fovea before scutellum which is 
elongate ; elytra convex, shining, with the shoulders well marked, com- 
paratively finely striated, the striz being apparently almost impunctate, 
and with the interstices broad and flat and marked with traces of fine 
diffuse punctuation ; legs rather stout, black. L. 3-33 nim. 
Male with the rostrum thicker and shorter, and the anterior tibi 
slightly curved. 
On various species of mallows; the larva has been found in the stems of M. sylvestris 
and rotundifolia, and the perfect insect has also occurred on other species ; generally 
distributed and common throughout the greater part of England and probably Scot- 
land and Ireland. 
