240 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Cleonus, 
chiefly, but not: altogether, confined to districts near the coast ; Charlton, Whitstable, 
Sheerness, Gravesend, Harwich, Great Yarmouth, Hertford; Bottisham, near Cam- 
bridge; Dover; Hastings; Eastbourne; Portsmouth; Chesil Beach; Bristol ; 
Swansea; Erdington; Knowle, near Birmingham; Southport and Blackpool, Lanca- 
shire ; Liverpool, common, sometimes in profusion, on the Crosby and Hightown 
Sandhills among thistles; Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, mari- 
time, rare, Forth district; it probably occurs in Ireland. 
C. albidus, F. (fasczatus, Mill.). Much smaller than the preceding 
species, with which it agrees in having the second joint of the posterior 
tarsi short, scarcely, if at all, longer than broad; it may however be 
known by its colour, which renders it one of the prettiest and most 
conspicuous’ of our British Curculionide ; black, with the thorax clothed 
at sides and more scantily on dise with yellowish or whitish yellow 
pubescence, elytra very thickly clothed with snowy pubescence, with a 
broad space at shoulders, a waved uneven band about middle and a 
patch before apex denuded ; rostrum short, with a central carina, which 
is bifurcate in front; thorax very uneven and irregularly rugose on disc, 
about as long as broad, with sides straight and parallel; elytra slightly 
broader than thorax, with fine punctured strie which are concealed by 
the pubescence ; legs pitchy, pubescent ; the male characters are the 
same as in the preceding species. L. 7-10 mm, 
Sandy places: on Chenopodiacee; the larva has been found on Atriplex rosea 
(Frosted Orache) and Chenopodium album (White Goosefoot), and the perfect insect 
has occurred in abundance near Venice on Atriplex patula (Common Orache); the 
species is extremely rare in Britain; I have a fine specimen in my collection taken by 
Mr. W. H. Harwood in the Colchester district in 1883; in Dr. Power’s collection 
there is a specimen, without locality, from the Rev. J. Laundy Browne (probably 
from the Fen districts), and Mr. Samuel Stevens possesses a single example, received 
by him from Mr. Salmon, taken at ‘‘ Thetford, Norfolk ; ” Stephens (Manual, p. 251) 
gives as localities Norwich, Ipswich, Cromer and Portobello, near Edinburgh. 
Cc. nebulosus, L. (Lethierryi, Chevr.). Of about the size of C. 
sulcirostris, but easily distinguished by the elongate second joint of the 
posterior tarsi, which is distinctly longer than broad, and its darker 
appearance, as well as by the reddish tinge which is usually apparent on 
some portion of its body; black, thickly but irregularly clothed with 
ashy pubescence ; rostrum uniformly pubescent, with a strong and broad 
basal carina; thorax about as long as broad, with the sides constricted 
before apex, with a central abbreviated carina in front and the dise 
strongly rugose, the rugosities and elevations being raised above the 
pubescence ; elytra with rather strong punctured striz, and the alternate 
interstices more or less elevated, especially at base, pubescence much 
variegated with oblique denuded fasciz and patches ; the tubercle towards 
apex is also always denuded ; legs long, pubescent; the pubescence on 
the head and rostrum, the thorax, legs and more or less of elytra is 
usually to a greater or less extent of a duller or brighter reddish colour. 
L. 13-14 mm. 
In heathy places; at the roots of Hricacee; in sand-pits, &e.; rare; Esher, 
