234 RHYNCHOPHORA. | Hypera. 
H. tigrina, Boh. (77. pastinacee, Rossi, v. tigrina, Boh.). A very 
distinct and conspicuous species, which may at once be known by the 
very long outstanding setz on the elytra, and also by the colour of the 
elytra; these are closely covered with lighter and darker scales 
in alternate lines, which are chequered with small square black 
patches like a chess-board; the antenne are red with a dark club, and 
the legs are more or less ferruginous ; the thorax is transverse and has 
the sides strongly rounded and dilated in front and much contracted 
behind, and the elytra are oblong oval, with very fine strie. L. 43-5 
mm, 
On the heads of Daucus carota (the wild carrot) ; extremely local and not common 
where it occurs; Dover (where most of the specimens have been taken) ; Folkestone 
(S. Stevens); Glanvilles Wootton (Dale). 
H. elongata, Payk. Black, clothed with ashy or bright brown pubes- 
cence; head short, slightly. pubescent, flat between the eyes; rostrum 
rather short, a little thickened and curved; antenne red with dark 
club; thorax convex, closely punctured, with sides rounded, and three 
rather obsolete lighter lines ; elytra somewhat elongate, nearly ‘twice as 
long as together broad, with moderate punctured  strie, interstices 
slightly convex, the lateral ones obsoletely marked with fuscous and ashy 
patches; legs elongate and stout, pubescent. L. 6-7 mm. 
Very rare, and perhaps doubtfully indigenous; in Dr. Power’s collection there is a 
doubtful specimen from Birch Wood and another from Mr. Brewer ; Stephens (Illust. 
iv. 102) says, ‘‘ My specimens were from the Marshamian collection, and I have seen 
several that were captured near Edinburgh.’’ ‘‘ Raehills, rare,’’? Rev. W. Little. Dr. 
Sharp, however, does not recogn‘ze the species as from Scotland. 
H. suspiciosa, Herhst. (pedestris, Payk., miles, Payk.). A broad 
and robust species with ample convex elytra ; black, densely clothed with 
ashy pubescence and scales; head thickly punctured, with a channel be- 
tween eyes; thorax nearly as long as broad, with the sides slightly 
rounded, with two light lines towards sides and another, often more or 
less obsolete, in centre; elytra much broader than thorax, with the 
suture often lighter at apex, and with obscure blackish patches on the 
alternate interstices, scutellary region more or less dark, striz fine and 
plainly and closely punctured; antenne ferruginous, with the club 
dusky black ; legs rather long, pitchy. L. 6-7 mm. 
Male with the antenne inserted almost in the middle of the rostrum, 
the anterior tibiz rather strongly curved, and the abdomen impressed at 
base; in the female the antenne are inserted a little behind the apex of 
rostrum. 
On various Leguminose ; the larva has been observed on Lotus and Lathyrus pra- 
tensis ; local, but not uncommon where it occurs; Dulwich, Coombe Wood, Chat- 
ham, Whitstable; Margate; Deal; Hythe; Folkestone; Portsmouth district ; 
Whitsand Bay, Plymouth; Somersetshire; Swansea; Bewdley; Coleshill, near 
Birmingham; Wicken Fen; Sherwood Forest; Filey, Yorkshire, not uncommon near 
the coast; banks and meadows near the Bollin, Cheshire; New Brighton; Northum- 
