210 RHYNCHOPHORA. [Barynotus. 
BARYNOTUS, Germar (Merionus, Stephens). 
This genus contains only about a dozen species, which, with one or 
two exceptions, are all found in Europe; B. Schénherii has been taken 
in Newfoundland, and Say has described another North American 
species, B. granulatus; the latter, however, is not noticed by Leconte 
and Horn in their classification, and B, Schonherri may have been an 
importation, so that Bedel is most likely right in regarding the genus 
as confined to Europe; the species are attached chiefly to cold and 
mountainous districts ; they are rather large insects, with the upper 
surface more or less thickly clothed with scales, which are usually grey 
or brownish, but sometimes more or less metallic; the rostrum is broad, 
dilated at apex, with a strong central furrow and well-marked very 
obtusely deflexed scrobes; eyes depressed ; thorax about as long as 
broad, with a more or less distinct central furrow ; elytra variable, with 
punctured striz, strongly deflexed and more or less acuminate at apex ; 
femora not toothed. 
The three British species may be distinguished as follows :— 
J. Rostrum with one furrow; head and thorax more 
shining and much less thickly squamose than the 
elytra, which are subparallel. 
i. Scales of elytra denser, not or scarcély metallic, 
eres and brown, obscurely variegated . . . . . B. opscurus, F. 
. Seales of elytra less deuse, distinctly metallic, 
rarireale variegated . . . . B. ScHGNHERRI, Zett. 
IJ. Rostrum with fiye furrows ; head, thorax and elytra 
uniformly and thickly covered with dull grey scales, 
the latter‘dilatedibehind) J. Jos. )ea i) 4) BY SLEVATUS) eiarshe 
(merens, auct. nec F.) 
B. obscurus, F. (murinus, Miill.). Pitchy black, clothed with 
obscurely variegated scales, which are comparatively scanty on the head 
and thorax, and very scanty on the rostrum; rostrum with a strong 
longitudinal groove and oblong rugose punctures; thorax punctured 
anteriorly, with the sides and hinder portion obsoletely granulated, 
nearly as long as broad, with the sides rounded, broadest a little before 
middle ; elytra with fine punctured strie, interstices thickly and finely 
coriaceous, the alternate ones and the suture behind slightly elevated, 
with erect cinereous sete, which are conspicuous towards apex ; legs 
black, with the tibie and tarsi sometimes ferruginous. L. 83-10 mm. 
The female appears to be broader than the male, with the sides of the 
elytra more rounded 
Under stones, at roots of grass, in moss, flood refuse, &c.; rather common and 
generally distr ibuted throughout England and Wales; Scotland, not very common, 
Solway, Dee and Moray, ‘and probably all the southern districts; Ireland, New- 
castle, Waterford, Armagh, and most likely general. 
B. Schonherri, Zett. Very like the preceeding, but, on an average, 
a little smaller, with the scales less variegated and plainly metallic, 
