Hypera.| RHYNCHOPHORA, 231 
lated in front and strongly contracted 
behinds. (0° 20g. hi lel? : on? +H, PRANTAGINIS: De @: 
by. Size smaller ; thorax with the sides 
very slightly rounded and scarcely 
contracted behind . . . . . . H. veinineara, Marsh. 
cf. Elytra without any marked variega- 
tion; antenn entirely red; thorax 
transverse oval; rostrum with a dis- 
tinct channel opposite the upper border 
OL LHSseroues. 6 es es SE. MELER, 
df. Elytra closely covered with uniform 
green, sometimes brown, scales; size 
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H. punctata, I. The largest of our species; broad and robust, 
dull-black, clothed with greyish brown or grey scales, which are broadly 
lighter on the sides of thorax and elytra; rostrum short and broad ; 
thorax slightly widened in front, but with the sides nearly straight, 
thickly punctured, with a more or less obscure central line of lighter 
scales ; elytra ovate, much broader at shoulders than thorax, interstices 
alternately obscurely lighter and darker, sometimes with fascicles of 
darker scales, every other one slightly raised, punctured strie rather 
deep, erect sete distinct ; antenne red, legs dark with tibie obscurely 
red. L. 7-10 mm. 
Male with the anterior tibiz rather strongly and the intermediate 
tibia slightly curved and armed at apex with a rather distinct hook; 
abdomen slightly impressed at base and apex. 
Female with the anterior tibie scarcely curved and the intermediate 
straight and armed with an obsolete hook; abdomen even. 
On species of Trifolium ; in moss, at roots of plants, &c.; often found crawling 
on walls and palings, and occasionally by sweeping herbage; common and generally 
distributed throughout the kingdom. 
HI. fasciculata, Herbst. (/fascicwlosa, Steph.). Black, densely 
clothed with white; fuscous, grey or yellowish-grey, with small black 
patches and markings, which cause the upper surface to appear strongly 
variegated; head short, covered with white scales, antenne ferruginous ; 
thorax with the sides rather strongly rounded in front and contracted 
behind, with three lines of light scales, dise thickly punctured ; elytra 
with rather deep, but obsoletely punctured, striae, and convex interstices, 
furnished especially towards apex with rows of sete, very prettily varie- 
gated, with an immaculate more or less distinct semicircular spot 
(sometimes reduced) in middle of sides, and another at shoulders (often 
obscure), lighter; the suture is light, chequered with black fascicles, of 
which there is a longer one at apex, and these fascicles are present on 
other interstices ; legs long, more or less ferruginous, femora squamose 
and variegated. L. 6 mm. 
Sandy places near the sea; under Evrodium cicutarium ; according to Schiddte on 
Geranium molle ; extremely local, Lut not uncommon where it occurs; the chief 
