208 RHYNCHOPHORA. [Tanymecus. 
On burdocks, thistles, nettles, &e.; local ; London district, rather common; Darenth 
Wood, Forest Hill, Chatham, Sheerness, Birch Wood, Epping, Walthamstow, Clay- 
gate, Horsell, Bushey, Tottenham, Reigate, &c.; Bottisham, Cambridge; Cromer ; 
Pegwell Bay (common but extremely local, under stones on the shore); Hastings ; 
Shipley; Winchester ; Portsmouth district ; Hayling; Isle of Wight; New Forest ; 
Glanvilles Wootton; Bristol; Swansea; Banks of Wye; I know of no record from 
the Midland counties, but it probably occurs; York ; Scarborough; Lancaster ; 
Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, rare, Solway district only. 
PHILOPEDINA (Cneorrhinina, pars.). 
This tribe contains six European genera, the nomenclature of which 
is somewhat confused, as the majority of the species have been referred 
to the genus Cneorrhinus ; this latter genus, however, contains only two 
species, C. barcelonicus and C. Heydeni, and the two British species 
must be referred respectively to Philopedon and Atactogenus ; the tribe 
has by some authors been included unier the Otiorrhynchina, from 
which it differs by the formation of the side pieces of the mesosternum ; 
from the Phyllobiina it may be known by the short oval convex elytra, 
which are almost subglobose, and the short metasternum. 
I. Apical external angle of anterior tibie strongly pro- . 
duced. . 38-5, Bee SS eS 2S IRaTOPEDON Sy SLepies 
II. Apical external angle of anterior tibize not produced . ArTacToGENus, Tourn. 
PHILOPEDON, Stephens (Dactylorrhinus, Tournier ; 
Cneorrhinus, pars. auct.). 
The genus Cneorrhinus, to which the species contained under this and 
the preceding tribe have been referred by many authors, contains about 
thirty species which are widely distributed, representatives occurring in 
Europe, South Africa, Northern China, Japan, &c.; these have, how- 
ever, been divided into several fresh genera, and in the last European 
catalogue Cneorrhinus contains only the two species, C. barcelonicus and 
C. Heydeni, whereas our common species, C. geminatus, F., is referred 
to the Dactylorrhinus of Tournier. Bedel, however, rightly revives the 
name Philopedon of Stephens ; the genus is characterized, as Stephens 
says (Ill. iv. 124), by the remarkable rotundity of its elytra, as com- 
pared with its short transverse thorax ; the rostrum is broad, short, 
channelled, and divided from the head, as it were, by a transverse 
suture; the eyes are very prominent, and the posterior pairs of tibiz 
have a distinct tuft at their heel ; the antennz are rather short and the 
scrobes angularly deflexed; in Philopedon proper the external angle of 
the anterior tibiz is strongly produced. 
P. geminatus, F. Black, thickly clothed with fuscous-grey scales, 
which are lighter on head, at base and sides of thorax and on alternate 
lines on the elytra ; upper surface with short erect ashy hairs; hea:l 
broad, eyes prominent, forehead somewhat depressed ; antenne ferru- 
