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occur (apparently the v. pabulinus, Panz.), which are often confused 
with the succeeding species. L. 4-5 mm. 
In moss, and at the roots of various plants; it appears to feed on various kinds of 
vegetation ; 3 occasionally it is found by beating hedges ; common and very widely dis- 
tributed, but in Britain it appears to be almost confined to the coast counties; Dr. 
Sharp records it as common in Scotland in the Solway, Ciyde, Forth and Yay districts ; 
Ireland, near Dublin, and probably widely spread; according to Bedel it is dis- 
tributed over all Europe, western Siberia, and the north-eastern part of the United 
States. 
©. muscorum, Bris. Very closely allied to the reddish variety of 
the preceding species, but as a rule distinguished from it by its more or 
less ferruginous colour ; it is also smaller, with evidently shorter and 
less robust antenne and legs (the posterior femora being very feebly 
toothed beneath) ; the general form is narrower, the pubescence more 
distinct, and the thorax is less strongly tuberculate, and the central 
sulci are far less strongly marked (a point that will easily separate it) ; 
it also has a narrower rostrum, which is distinctly depressed in ue: 
middle. L. 4mm. 
In moss; occasionally found in sandpits and by sweeping herbage; not uncommon; 
Dartford, St. Mary Crav, Shirley, Mickleham, Leith Hill, West Wickham; Malvern; 
Knowle, near Birmingham; Banks of Dove, Burton-on-Trent; Church Stretton; 
Llangollen ; Manchester district, abundant and general in sandy places, especially on 
the coast (Chappell) ; Northumberland and Durham district, on Melilot trefoil at 
South Shields and Hartley (Bold); Scotland, not rare, Solway, Forth, Dee and 
probably other districts; Ireland, Armagh (Johnson). 
PERITELUS, Germar. 
This genus contains nearly fifty species, of which the majority occur 
in Europe, and the remainder have been described from North and South 
Africa ; they are, for the most part, extremely local ; only one species is 
found in Britain, and this very rarely ; they are closely ailied to Ofior- 
rhynchus, from which they differ in having the femora not clavate and 
always simple beneath, and the tarsal claws (in our species) connate ; 
the antenne are stout and rather long, the scutellum indistinct, and the 
body closely covered with scales, without short recumbent hairs. 
P. griseus, Ol. (sphervides, Germ.). Oblong-ovate ; black, clothed - 
thickly with greyish and brownish scales, which are light at sides of 
head, thorax and elytra, and in fresh specimens have a slight pinkish 
reflection ; antennz reddish-pitch brown, scape longer than the funiculus; 
forehead with a small depression between eyes, rostrum with a fine 
central furrow; thorax with the sides gradually and slightly rounded, 
deeply and diffusely punctured ; elytra ovate, with fine and not very 
closely punctured striz, interstices broad ; legs pitchy red or brownish. 
L. 6-8 mm. 
On bushes, &e.; sometimes injurious to vines ; extremely rare in Britain ; Ventnor 
and Sandown, Isle of Wight (Wainwright and Sidebotham). 
