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A. Curtisi, Walt. (curtulum, Desbr., teste Bedel). Very closely 
allied to A. pubescens, but, on an average, of smaller size, and also 
evidently narrower and more parallel ; the forehead has no impression, 
or a very obsolete one, at the base of rostrum; the rostrum is shorter 
and more shining and evidently longer in the female than in the male, 
and the eyes are less prominent ; the thorax is longer, being about as 
long as broad, and is more finely punctured, with the fovea before 
scutellum less marked and often obsolete, and the elytra are more narrow, 
convex and parallel with the striz finer and more superficial, L. 1$-2 
mm. 
Sandy places on the coast, by sweeping grass, &e.; the actual food plant does not 
appear to be known; local, but sometimes abundant where it occurs; Dulwich ; 
Shipley, near Horsham ; Deal; Hastings and St. Leonards ; Littlehampton ; Arundel ; 
Brighton; Devon; Norfolk; Heysham and Lancaster, 
Group 20. 
Large purple-red metallic species with short stout and straight rostrum. 
(On Statice.) 
A. limonii, Kirby. One of the largest and most conspicuous species 
of the genus; oval, convex, coppery-red or reddish-purple sometimes 
with a greenish tinge, with the elytra often darker than thorax, covered 
with short scanty pubescence ; head broad, rugose between eyes, which 
are large and scarcely prominent ; rostrum very short and stout, often of 
a purple colour, coarsely punctured, the punctuation being closer at the 
base and sides ; antenne short, inserted about middle; thorax longer 
than broad, with the sides subparallel and scarcely narrowed in front, 
usually coppery or brassy, sometimes greenish, finely and diffusely 
punctured, with a deep and more or less elongate fovea before scutellum ; 
elytra oval, strongly rounded and widened at sides, broadest about middle, 
produced obtusely behind, with the shoulders rounded, and with punc- 
tured strive, which are fine in some specimens and rather strong in others, 
interstices rather broad, shagreened; underside punctured, coppery ; 
legs dark, more or less metallic, stout and rather short. L. 3-4 mm. 
Male with the rostrum shorter than in female, and the antenne a 
little shorter and stouter. 
Salt marshes, on the decaying leaves and old roots of Statice limoniwm (the Sea 
Lavender) in July and August; very local, but common where it occurs; Gravesend, 
Sheerness, Whitstable; Walton-on-Naze; Dover; Folkestone; Hythe; South- 
ampton; Burnham Market ; first taken by Mr. Kirby at Holme-next-the-Sea, Nor- 
folk, and subsequently in profusion by Mr. Walton in August, 1841, in the same 
locality. 
Group 21. 
Very small black species with straight stout rostrum and quadrate 
thorax, with sides rather strongly rounded. (On Sedum.) 
A. sedi, Germ. (fwmedicolle, Bach.). A small,.somewhat elongate, 
