178 RNYNCHOPHORA. [| Otiorrhynchus. 
closely granulated, and with a more or less distinct central furrow ; 
elytra rough and scabrous, with punctured strive; antenne and legs 
dull ferruginous. L. 63-7} mm. 
Chalky and sandy places ; under stones, in moss, at roots of low plants, &c. ; often 
by beating hedges ; locally common; London district, generally distributed ; Dover ; 
Hastings; Portsmouth district ; Isle of Wight, Ryde, Sandown, Ventnor, &e. ; 
Exeter ; Swansea; Hunstanton ; Wallasey, Cheshire, and Aigburth, Liverpool dis- 
trict ; Lincoln ; not recorded eae the Northumberland and irate district ; re- 
corded in Murray’s Catalogue from “ Dollar, Berwickshire, East Lothian, &c.,” but 
Dr. Sharp says he has never seen a specimen found in Scotland, and concludes the 
record must be erroneous ; Ireland, near Dundrum, Waterford, &c. 
O. ligneus, Ol. (scabridus, Steph.). One of the smaller species 
which is sometimes confused with O. ovatus and O. muscorum, from 
which it may be known by the absence of teeth on the anterior femora : ; 
pitchy black or ferruginous, elytra ferruginous or pitchy-red, with light 
outstanding pubescence ; antenne pitehy or reddish; rostrum rugose ; 
thorax rounded at sides, thickly and coarsely eranulated ; elytra ovate, 
rough, with punctured striz, interstices transversely rugose ; legs fer- 
ruginous. L 43-65 mm. 
In moss, at the roots of plants, under stones, &c.; local and widely distributed, 
but never very co.nmon; London district, found in many localities; Dover; Folke- 
stone; Hastings; Sandown, Isle of Wight ; Portsmouth district ; Devon; Bristol ; 
Llangollen ; Bridgenorth ; Repton ; : Sherwood Forest; Liverpool district ; Lancaster ; 
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire ; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, not 
common, in sandy places, Solway and Clyde districts; Ireland, Rathkurby, near 
Waterford, Cramond, &e. 
O. septentrionis, Herbst. (scaber, L.). Ovate, brown red, closely 
covered with round brownish -grey or yellowish grey scales, which on 
the elytra are variegated with irregular patches of reddish-brown scales, 
which produce a tessellated appearance ; rostrum thickly scaled, not or 
scarcely ridged, eyes flat ; antennz red ; thorax about as long as, or a 
little longer than, broad, with the sides rounded, granulate ; elytra 
with the alternate interstices strongly raised, and with rows of deep 
punctures, each of which bears a round scale, each interstice with 
strong erect or semi-erect scale-like somewhat clavate, sete; legs red. 
L. 5-53} mm. 
Only found in the highland districts of Scotland, where it is very local, but not 
uncommon where it occurs; Tay, Dee and Moray districts (Braemar, Aviemore, 
Rannoch, &c.). 
O. picipes, F. (singularis, L., sguamiger, Steph.). Oblong, ovate, 
pitchy, clothed with fuscous-ashy pubescence, which is not much 
raised, and closely covered with brownish and lighter yellowish 
brown scales, which cause the elytra to appear more or less tessellated ; 
head with a very fine central ridge; thorax almost longer than broad, 
granulated, the granulations being very coarse on the centre of disc ; 
elytra not very convex, with the interstices very slightly raised, and 
