Phyllobius.| RHYNCHOPHORA. 207 
with greenish hair-like scales with which also the under side and femora 
are covered ; elytra smooth and shining with coarsely and deeply punc- 
tured striz, acuminate at apex; abdomen with the scales more sparing 
than on breast ; femora black, tibiz and tarsi ferruginous. L, 3-42 
mn. 5 
Male with the anterior tibie armed with a distinct hook. 
On flowers of Hieracium, Alchemilla, Artemisia maritima, and by general sweep- 
ing; local; not recorded from the London district; Yarmouth; Devil’s Ditch, 
Cambridgeshire; Matlock; Dove Dale; Cleethorpes; York; Clitheroe; Hartle- 
pool ; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, local, on Alchemilla, Solway, 
Forth, Tay and Dee districts. With regard to the genus the,Rev. W. C. Hey 
writes to me as follows: ‘‘ My father and I took the whole genus (nine species) one 
spring in the field below our house at Clifton, York; Crotch named them; he was 
with us at the time.” 
TANYMECINA. 
This tribe is represented in Europe by five or six genera and about 
eighty species; only one genus, however, comprising one species, is 
found in Britain; the tribe may be known by the free tarsal claws taken 
in conjunction with the fact that the thorax is furnished with long 
hairs at the sides behind the eyes. 
TANYMECUS, Schonherr. 
A rather large number of species are comprised in this genus, which 
is widely distributed over the greater part of the world; twenty-one 
Species oceur in Europe, of which one only is widely distributed ; it is 
the sole representative found in Norway and Sweden, France and 
Britain ; it is a rather large, elongate, somewhat depressed, insect, with 
the rostrum short and broad, the antennz long, and the eyes depressed; 
the scrobes are obsolete behind ; the thorax is longer than broad, sub- 
cylindrical; the elytra are somewhat acuminate at apex, and the tibiz 
are setulose at apex; it is found on various members of the thistle 
tribe. 
T. palliatus, Ff. Elongate, not very convex, black, clothed with 
fuscous pilose hairs and scales, and with light greyish-white scales on 
rostrum, at sides of thorax and elytra and on the under side; rostrum 
flat and broad ; thorax oblong, closely sculptured ; elytra at base much 
broader than thorax, with the shoulders strongly marked, and with fine, 
but rather deep and plainly punctured, striw ; legs moderate, black, 
with grey pubescence, fringe at apical external angle of intermediate 
and posterior tibiz rather long and divided. L. 8-11 mm. 
Male with the middle of the abdomen very slightly impressed, the 
anterior tibiz sinuate on their inner side at apex and armed with a small 
hook. 
Female with the abdomen convex and even, and the anterior tibia 
scarcely sinuate. 
