Phyllobins.] RIYNCHOPHORA. 205 
P. urtice, De G. (alneti, F.). Oblong with the elytra on an average 
broader, more convex, and less parallel than in the preceding species, 
thickly clothed with silky golden green or bright green scales which are 
denser on the elytra; eyes prominent; thorax with sides rounded ; 
elytra with faint punctured striz; antenne dark, ferruginous at base ; 
legs entirely black, with greenish scales; apical external margin of 
posterior tibie curved; abdomen with short close pubescence. 
L. 73-9 mm. , 
Male with the fifth ventral segment of the abdomen broadly and very 
slightly impressed in middle, with the posterior margin very slightly 
emarginate. 
On nettles ; common and generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 
P. pyri, L. (vespertinus, F., mutus, Gyll.). Oblong, black, clothed 
with scattered narrow golden coppery, coppery, or greenish coppery 
scales ; head thickly and rugosely punctured, antenne red, with the 
club usually darker; thorax with the sides strongly rounded, depressed 
in front and behind; scutellum with white scales ; elytra much broader 
than thorax, subparallel, acuminate at apex, with delicate punctured 
striz ; legs red, tarsi more or less pitchy, femora clavate, sometimes 
pitchy at apex; the colour of the upper surface is very variable, and, 
except in quite fresh specimens, has a very abraded appearance. 
L. 5-7 mm. 
Male with the first ventral segment of abdomen impressed, and the 
second with a transverse fold behind. 
On whitethorn, young trees in woods, nettles, &c.; generally distributed and common 
throughout the greater part of England and Scotland, and probably Ireland. 
P. argentatus, L. Oblong, subparallel, very thickly clothed with 
shining golden green round scales, intermingled with erect pale hairs ; 
scrobes converging behind on rostrum ; head oblong; antenne slender, with 
the second joint of the funiculus longer than the first, and the club elon- 
gate, entirely reddish testaceous; eyes large, moderately prominent; thorax 
with the sides rounded, impressed in front and behind ; elytra with fine 
punctured striz, interstices broad and flat; femora clavate, dark, with 
green scales, tibiz and tarsi reddish testaceous. L. 4-53 mm, 
Male with the thorax more dilated at sides, and the anterior tibie 
armed with a rather strong hook. 
Female with the thorax scarcely dilated at sides, and the rostrum 
channelled before antenne. 
On young birches, oaks, &c., in woods, also in whitethorn hedges ; common and 
generally distributed throughout the kingdom, 
P. maculicornis, Germ. Very like the preceding, but easily 
distinguished by having the scales smaller and duller, and the antenne 
with the apex of scape and at least the base of the club dark; the eyes 
are a little more prominent, the antenne shorter, and the scrobes are less 
