Barynotus. | RHYNCHOPHORA, 211 
almost, if not quite, wanting on rostrum, very scanty on thorax ; thorax 
more evidently punctured, with the sides straighter and less rounded ; 
elytra with the shoulders more pronounced. L. 8-9 mm, 
Found under the same circumstances as the preceding ; local, but common in many 
northern localities ; Manchester district, general (Chappell) ; Heysham, near Lan- 
caster (Reston) ; Northumberland and Durham district, of occasional occurrence in 
meadows, &c. (Bold) ; Scotland, rather common in flood refuse, Solway, Forth, Tay, 
Dee and Shetland districts, and probably general; Ireland, Newcastle (Champion) 
and Armagh (Johnson). 
B. elevatus, Marsh (mwrens, auct. nee F.). Fuscous-pitchy, 
thickly clothed with dull unicolorous grey scales ; rostrum squamose, 
with a deep central furrow and two oblique shorter ones on each side; 
thorax slightly transverse, with the sides moderately rounded ; elytra 
dilated behind, with rather strongly punctured striz, alternate inter- 
stices and apex of suture elevated, fifth and sixth strie united near 
shoulders, raised sets rather fine ; legs black, tibie and tarsi pitchy ; 
the antenng are, as a rule, pitchy, but are sometimes ferruginous and 
the legs rufo-piceous.. L. 73-9 mm. 
Under stones, in moss, flood refuse, &c. ; also by sweeping among bracken ; local, 
and as a rule not common; London district, not common, St. Mary Cray, Chisle- 
hurst ; Aylsham, Norfolk; Suffolk; Littlington, Cambridge; Folkestone; Devon; 
Bath; Bristol; Gloucester; Knowle, near Birmingham; Swansea; Llandudno; 
Amlwch, Anglesea; Bretby Wood, Repton (common by sweeping among bracken in 
early summer); Leyburn, Yorks; Manchester district, general; Heysham; North- 
umberland and Durham district ; Scotland, rather common in flood refuse, Solway, 
Tweed and Forth districts; Ireland, near Dublin, frequent, Armagh, &e. 
ALOPHINA. 
The two genera included by Bedel under this tribe, Alophus and 
Rhytidoderes, are placed by Heyden Reitter and Weise under the section 
Rhynchenite in the Hyperina and Cleonina respectively ; their position 
therefore appears to be somewhat in dispute ; they are, however, closely 
allied to the Barynotina, from which they differ in the characters 
before referred to; one genus only, represented by one speeies, occurs 
in Britain. 
ALOPHUWS, Schonherr. 
This genus contains about twenty species, of which the greater 
number are found in Northern Asia ; five occur in Europe, and one or 
two have been found in North America and Egypt ; our single species, 
in general appearance, much resembles a large Hypera. the rostrum is 
rather long, with the scrobes much deflexed and almost meeting below ; 
the antenne are somewhat slender, with the first two joints of the 
funiculus nearly equal; the thorax is subquadrate or slightly transverse, 
and the second abdominal segment is at least as long as the next two 
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