Cleonus. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 241 
Shirley, Leith Hill, Weybridge, Wimbledon, Chobham, Sandhurst; Norwich ; 
Suffolk ; Cambridge; New Forest. 
CG. glaucus, |’. (¢urbatus, Fahrs.). Very like the preceding, but 
shorter, with the vertex not distinctly carinate, the posterior tibize with 
a longer spur, the prosternum without distinct tubercular prominences 
before coxee, and the elytra shorter in proportion to the thorax, with the 
alternate interstices less raised ; in size, general appearance, and mark- 
ings, the species appears to closely resemble C. nebulosus. L. 12-13 
mm. 
Heathy places ; at the roots of Ericacee ; extremely rare and requires further con- 
firmation as British ; Ockham and Ripley, Surrey (Steph. Man. 281); on a common 
between Chobham and Ripley, seven specimens taken by Mr. Newle in June, 1815 
(Steph. Ill. iv. 155) ; Chobham, taken by Mr. Standish (8. Stevens). 
(C. ophthalmicus, Rossi (momus, Scop.; qguadripunctatus, Schrank ; 
distinetus, Steph. Ill.). This species is now omitted from our lists ; it 
is allied to C. albidus and C. sulcirostris in having the second joint of 
the posterior tarsi short, and differs from the former in having the first 
joint of the funiculus of the antenne at least as long as the second ; 
from the latter it may be known by having the mesosternal projection 
broadly truncate between the intermediate coxa, instead of being 
terminated in a sharp or obtuse point (on this character Motschulsky has 
placed it in a separate genus, Leucosomus); the colour is black, varied 
with ashy pubescence; the thorax is white at the sides and the elytra 
are obscurely striated with several rows of elevated ashy hairs, and each 
is furnished with two distinct white spots behind the middle, the 
anterior of which is somewhat divided ; towards the base are some 
rather lighter dashes; on the breast are some fascicles of ashy down, 
and the margins of the abdominal segments are pale; legs black, 
pubescent. L. 9-15 mm. 
Coombe Wood and Epping Forest (Stephens) ; Steplens, however (Ill. iv. 153), says 
lhe had only seen two specimens, one of which, from Coombe Wood, had been taken 
about twenty years before. 
LIXUWS, Fabricius. 
This is a very interesting genus which in some respects is closely 
allied to Cleonus but differs in the faet that the scrobes cease at a 
distance from the apex of rostrum, and also in the usually more elongate 
form, the absence of the definite variegation of the elytra which is so 
conspicuous in many species of Cleonus, and the fact that many of its 
members have the power of secreting the dusty pollen-like matter 
before referred to ; the sexual differences are unimportant ; the species 
are very numerous, upwards of three hundred in number, and are very 
widely distributed throughout the world from Siberia to the Cape of 
Good Hope and Brazil ; in fact it appears to be one of the most uni- 
versally distributed genera of the Rhynchophora; as in the case of 
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