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tinguished by its much shorter and broader head and much more pro- 
minent eyes; the rostrum is shorter and stouter and the thorax less 
narrowed in front and more coarsely punctured ; the elytra also are 
shorter and the size appears, on the average, to be smaller; the male 
has the rostrum a little dilated in the middle, and slightly gibbose 
beneath at the insertion of the antenne. L. 24-2¢ mm, 
On Vicia cracca and other Leguminose; local; London district, not. common, 
Chatham, Mickleham, Woking, Caterham, Ashtead, Horsell, Colney Hatch, Claygate, 
Reigate, Birdbrook, Kingsbury Reservoir; not recorded from the southern counties ; 
Midland counties, general (W. G. Blatch); Repton (Garneys); Bollin Valley, Cheshire ; 
Spital, near Liverpool; Northumberland and Durham district, Wallington, &e.; 
Scotland, Forth district, “near Edinburgh, A. Murray,” Murray’s Cat. 
A. meliloti, Kirby (bifoveolatwm, Steph.). A rather large and 
very elongate species, with the elytra rather depressed ; black with the 
elytra bluish or greenish-blue, pubescence very fine and scanty ; head 
rather narrow, strongly punctured, striated and somewhat depressed 
between eyes, which are slightly prominent, hinder part near thorax 
smooth and shining ; rostrum rather shining, slightly curved, moderately 
long, plainly punctured, marked usually with striae between the antenna, 
which are inserted about the middle ; thorax as long as broad, with sides 
subparallel, very slightly rounded, coarsely punctured, posterior angles 
sharp, stria before scutellum fine ; scutellum oval, furrowed ; elytra elon- 
gate, with sides widened a little behind, and with punctured stria, and 
plainly shagreened interstices which are broader than the striz ; legs 
black, not long; size very variable. L. 2-3} mm. 
Male with the rostrum shorter stouter and duller than in female. 
On Melilotus officinalis and M. arvensis; also on Trifolium officinale ; the larva 
mines the stems ; local, but common where it occurs; Hammersmith, Charlton, 
Shirley, Bearsted, near Maidstone ; Windsor; Arundel; Cowes, Ryde, and Thorness 
Bay, Isle of Wight; Ditchingham, Norfolk; Knowle, near Birmingham; Hopwas 
Wood, Tamworth ; Trench Woods, Bromsgrove; Reptou; recorded by Stephens from 
Yorkshire, but I know of no locality further north. 
A. scutellare, Kirby (Kirbyi, Germ., angustatum, Gyll.). This 
species bear a strong superficial resemblance to the preceding, but may 
at once be known by its colour, which is slaty black, and its more coarse 
and strongly marked pubescence ; the club of the antennz is more elon- 
gate, and the striz between the eyes are finer and more numerous ; the 
elytra have the shoulders more strongly marked, and the legs are more 
strongly pubescent; as in the preceding species the rostrum is shorter 
and stouter in the male. L. 23-35} mm. 
On furze, Ulez. Huropous and U. nanus ; local, but not uncommon in some districts ; 
London district, not uncommon, Esher, Woking, Weybridge, Charlton, Shirley, Leith 
Hill, Cobham, Coombe Wood ; Wimbledon and Horsell (Power), on Potentilla 
tormentilla ; Guestling; Bournemouth ; Lyndhurst ; Shirley Warren, Southampton; 
Devonshire, Newton and Exeter; Yardley, Sutton, and Knowle, near Birmingham ; 
Barmouth; Derbyshire, Repton, &e. ; ig: i Bidston, near Liverpool; not 
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