244 RHYNCHOPHORA. [Lixus. 
place this specimen apparently came; there is no reason why it should not bea 
British species, and it is better, therefore, not to omit it altogether; it occurs locally 
in Norway and Sweden and France). 
XL. algirus, L. (angustatus, F.). A large and conspicuous, robust, 
and rather broad species ; cylindrical, black, with fine and scanty grey 
pubescence, which is thicker on the underside and very sparsely 
powdered with yellow or yellowish grey ; head finely punctured, eyes 
flat ; rostrum moderately long and stout, slightly curved, rather coarsely 
punctured, with a small longitudinal channel between the insertions of 
the antenne ; thorax rugose, slightly narrowed in front, anterior margin 
smoother, base with a more or less prolonged longitudinal channel before 
scutellum ; elytra depressed at seutellum, with distinct rows of punc- 
tures, without process at apex. LL. 12-17 mm. 
On thistles; also according to Bedel on various species of low-growing Malvacee: 
very local ; London district, very rare, Sydenham (Stephens) ; Shoreham, Hickstead, 
&c., Sussex (Stephens); Fairlight, Hastings, local (Power, 8S. Stevens, &e. ); Faygate, 
near Rusper (Gore). 
L. bicolor, Ol. (vilis, Rossi; lateralis, Steph.). Elongate; black, 
with grey or brown pubescence and thickly powdered with a yellowish or 
yellowish-chestnut powder which, together with the pubescence, is very 
easily rubbed off, so that good specimens are difficult to procure ; rostrum 
with a central carina; eyes depressed ; antenne red or pitchy red, club 
often darker; thorax longer than broad, with sides very slightly rounded 
and narrowed in front, rugosely punctured, with a broad yellowish white 
band at margins, which in quite fresh specimens is continued as a 
light brownish yellow band on the margins of the base of the elytra ; 
elytra with fine punctured strize; apex of each obtusely rounded ; legs 
black, with thick pubescence ; size very variable. L. 53-123 mm. 
Sandy places near the coast; beneath and at roots of Hrodium cicutarium; ex- 
tremely local ; the chief locality is Dea) sandhills, on which considerable numbers 
have been taken; Isle of Thanet, near Sandwich, in June (Stephens) ; Sandwich, 
sandhills (Gorham); Portsmouth district (one specimen by sweeping, Moncreaff ) ; 
there is also a doubtful record from Plymouth. 
L. filiformis, F. (elongatus, Geze, nec Germ ). One of the smaller 
species ; elongate, black, with grey pubescence powdered with yellow ; 
thorax with four yellow lines; rostrum almost as long as thorax, closely 
punctured, indistinctly channelled at base; antennz ferruginous, scape 
scarcely longer than the two first joints of the funiculus takeu to- 
gether; thorax conical, with a deep transverse impression in front, very 
closely punctured; pubescence of the dorsal bands almost woolly : 
elytra scarcely impressed at base, separately rounded at apex, with the 
pubescence uniform (var. rufitarsis, Boh.) or condensed in uneven 
patches; legs dark, with the tarsi ferruginous. L. 43-9 mm. 
On various species of thistles, especially Carduus nutans and crispus: one ex- 
ample only was found by Mr. Sidebotham, when beating oak or birch, in a planta- 
tion on the side of Roundwey Hill, near Devizes, Wiltshire, early in June, 1864. 
