Philopedon.] RHYNCHOPHORA. 209 
ginous or pitchy red ; thorax transverse, short, finely and rugosely punc- 
tate, with the sides moderately rounded; elytra subglobose, with fine 
punctured striz, interstices very closely sculptured; legs pitchy, 
clothed with grey scales; size and arrangement of the lighter scales very 
variable. L. 4—73 mm. 
Sandy places on the coast; very common near the sea, but, as a rule, not an 
inland species; generally distributed throughout the kingdom and, as a rule, 
common; Dr. Sharp records it as common in Scotland as far north as the Shetland 
Islands ; it is not altogether confined to the sea-coast, as Mr. Blatch has taken it at 
Kidderminster and Bewdley, but it appears to be very rare at any distance from the 
maritime counties. 
ATACTOGENUWS, Tournier. 
This genus comprises eighteen European species ; the single British 
representative is very like Philopedon geminatus, from which it may be 
known by not having the apical external angle of the anterior tibiss 
produced ; it is also somewhat more elongate, with the sculpture of the 
thorax and the striz of the elytra evidently stronger. 
A. exaratus, Marsh (plumbeus, Marsh). Oblong, pitch-brown or 
fuscous-black, clothed with round scales which vary very much in 
colour from greyish to brownish, and are sometimes uniform and some- 
times furnished with lighter bands; head broad, eyes very prominent, 
antennz pitchy, with the second joint of the funiculus as long as the 
third and fourth united ; thorax short, narrowed in front, closely sculp- 
tured ; elytra oval, with distinct punctured strize; legs fuscous; size 
very variable; in the female the elytra are more ample and the anal 
segment of the abdomen is subtriangular. L. 5-9 mm. 
On young trees in woods, hedges, &c.; occasionally by sweeping herbage; local; 
Darenth Wood, Chislehurst, Woking, Shirley, Claygate, Caterbam, Coombe Wood, 
Birch Wood, Barnes, Hampstead, Horsell, Esher, Lee, Weybridge, Westerham, West 
Wickham ; Bottisham, Cambridge; Hythe; Hastings; Devon; Swansea ; Bewdley ; 
Bridgnorth ; Burton-on-Trent ; Sherwood Forest ; Lancaster ; Cumberland ; North- 
umberland and Durham district; not recorded from Scotland; Ireland, Armagh 
(Johnson). 
BARYNOTINA. 
This tribe, containing the genus Barynotus, has been included by 
different authors with the Otiorrhynchina and the Philopedina, from the 
former of which it differs by the formation of the side pieces of the 
mesosternum, while from the latter it may be known by the free tarsal 
claws and general shape; it appears to be most closely related to the 
Alophina, but differs in the formation of the apex of the hind tibia, 
and the longer scape of the antennz ; the cicatrix, moreover, at the apex 
of the rostrum is large and very distinct. 
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