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roots of plants in sandy places and is extremely like the ground on which 
it is found, so that it may often be passed over. 
G. lunatus, L. Oblong, clothed with broad scales, part of which 
are light and part dark, the former forming on the elytra two common 
crescent-shaped bands with their convex centres opposed to one another ; 
the colour, however, is very variable, and some specimens appear quite 
light, and others pitchy and dark with the light bands very much re- 
duced ; rostrum short, thickly squamose, antenne short, red, with the 
club darker, inserted a little behind the apex of the rostrum; eyes 
vertically oblong; thorax square, marked with eight oblong impressions, 
arranged in two rows; elytra oblong, much broader at shoulders than 
thorax, shoulders well marked and prominent, punctured striz distinct, 
alternate interstices raised and costiform ; legs dark, more or less ringed 
with light and dark scales or pubescence, first joint of tarsi elongate, 
second and third joints short. UL. 3-4 mm. 
Male with the abdomen impressed at base. 
Sandy places ; local, but often not uncommon where it occurs ; it is found under 
stones and at the roots of low plants, and is particularly attached to salterns and low- 
lying ground not far from the sea, although it also occurs inland; Shirley, Wimb!e- 
don, Wisley (Surrey), Blackheath, Hampstead Heath (formerly common, 8. Stevens) ; 
Norfolk; Suffolk; Deal; Dover; Hastings (not common); Portsmouth district ; 
Shirley Warren, Southampton (common, Gorham); Lymington Salterns (not un- 
common at the end of April) ; Seaford, Devon (Power); Westward Ho! N. Devon 
(taken commonly by myself on the flat ground behind the pebble ridge on Northam 
Burrows at the end of August); Bristol; Crymlyn Burrows, Swansea: I know of no 
record from further north, but it appears to be general all round the southern coasts 
from Norfolk to Wales. 
HYPERINA (Phytonomina). 
This tribe has been variously constituted by different authors, who 
have in some instances included under it Alophus, Procas, and one or 
two other European genera: from the characters above given in the 
table of the tribes it will be seen that the tribe is closely allied to those 
most nearly related to it, but, if we regard it as containing simply the 
genera Hypera and Limobius it forms a very natural division cha- 
racterized by the history of the early stages of its members, which can 
only be compared with that of the Cionina; the larvee live in the open 
air on various plants, on the leaves of which they feed; the body is 
capable of extension and contraction like that of caterpillars, and is 
covered with a viscous substance which is secreted by a nipple-like 
prominence on the upper surface of the last segment; locomotion is 
effected by means of bilobed prominences on the ventral surface; when 
the larva has attained its full growth it attaches itself to the underside 
of a leaf or to its stalk and forms a gauzy cocoon from threads of the 
viscous substance ; this cocoon, which shelters the insect from external 
