236 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Hypera. 
there is also a spot at shoulders and, as a rule, at apex of suture ; legs 
stout, rufo-ferruginous. L. 4-5 mm. 
Male with the anterior tibize curved and the base of abdomen and 
last segment impressed, the latter smuate on each side. 
Female with the anterior tibiz scarcely curved and the fifth ventral 
segment with a small fovea before apex which is broadly rounded. 
Chalky and sandy places; on Plantago ; also in moss and by general sweeping ; not 
uncommon and generally distributed throughout England and Wales; Dr. Sharp, how- 
ever, records it as rare in Scotland, Solway and Forth districts ; Ireland, near Dublin 
and Belfast and probably widely distributed. 
H. meles, F. Pitch-black, closely covered with greyish or yellowish- 
brown hair-like scales ; head small; rostrum rather long and nearly 
straight with the central line and apex glabrous; antennz entirely red, 
second joint of funiculus not much longer than third joint; thorax 
transverse oval, strongly rounded and dilated at sides, nearly twice as 
broad as long with a light narrow central line, and a somewhat curved 
broader one on each side; elytra with a row of whitish hairs on inter- 
stices, without marked variegation, but with obscure small light and 
dark patches and fascicles, and with the apex of suture spotted more or 
less obscurely with white and brown; femora dark, tibie, and usually 
tarsi, ferruginous. L. 4-5 mm, 
Male with the anterior tibiz rather strongly curved, and the base of 
abdomen and the last segment broadly impressed. 
On Trifolium pratense and Lucerne ; apparently very rare; Mickleham (Power) ; 
received trom Ross years ago (S. Stevens); Selby, near York, by sweeping a river 
bank in September (W. C. Hey). In Waterhouse’s catalogue it is given as synonymous 
with H. Trifolii, Herbst. (Steph. Ill. iv. 99), which Stephens records as “not infre- 
quent within the metropolitan district ; also found in Norfolk and Suffolk.” The species 
appears to be very imperfe2tly known. ‘Thomson says that it may be distinguished 
by its longer rostrum, which is channelled in front between the antenne and has the 
lateral line more strongly impressed and the central longitudinal line glabrous, and 
further by the very transverse thorax which has the sides much dilated; in the latter 
character it resembles H. plantaginis, but may be separated from that species by the 
longer and more shining rostrum, the nearer approximation of the eyes on the fore- 
head, and the absence of a denuded patch at sides of elytra, 
H. trilineata, Marsh. A small species ; black, thickly clothed with 
brownish-ashy or ashy scales, which are sometimes slightly metallic, and 
occasionally in part slightly greenish; antenne red with club dark ; 
thorax almost as long as broad with three lighter lines, sides only 
slightly rounded, and only a little contracted behind; elytra with the 
suture mottled with dark spots, and with two dark lines near scutellum, 
and a dark patch on each side of disc towards apex, punctured stris 
fine; the variegation, however, differs very much in more or less abraded 
specimens; legs ferruginous, femora usually dark. 4. 33-4 mm. 
Male with the anterior tibie rather strongly curved, the abdomen 
broadly impressed at base, and the fifth ventral segment of the abdo: 
