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Mr. Rye (Ent Annna!, 1865, p, 80), says: “This was doubtless only a straggler; the 
insect would most likely be obtained, if the thistle stems found in that neighbour- 
hood were brought home and secured in a breeding-cage. It is somewhat like ZL, 
bicolor, but smaller and much less robust; the thorax has two dull grey dorsal lines, 
and the elytra resemble dark specimens of Hrirrhinus maculatus in colour and 
marking.” It must be admitted that the species requires further confirmation as 
indigenous. 
LARINUS, Germar. 
The species of Larinus are more than one hundred in number and 
are chiefly confined to the Mediterranean region; representatives, huw- 
ever, occur at the Cape of Good Hope, in Siberia, Central Asia, &. ; 
no species, apparently, have been described from the New World ; the 
antenne are geniculated, 12-jointed, short and moderately stout, 
situated towards the apex of the rostrum ; the two basal joints of the 
funiculus are longer than the following, which are short; the club is 
elongate-ovate and subacute; the rostrum is moderately long; the 
thorax is gradually narrowed from base to apex with the basal margin 
strongly bisinuate, the centre being produced opposite to the scutellum ; 
- the elytra are broader than thorax, oblong-ovate ; the legs are_rather 
stout, with the femora thickened and not denticulate; in the males 
the abdomen is impressed at base, and the anal segment is very short ; 
all the species are found on members of the thistle tribe ; of the fifty- 
six European species only one is found, and that very rarely, in Britain. 
&. carline, Ol. (Lhinobalus planus, Steph.). Black, with the 
sides of the thorax and the underside clothed with more or less scanty 
greyish pubescence, and with fascicles of the same on the elytra; eyes 
depressed ; rostrum furrowed on each side at base ; antenne red with 
club dark ; thorax thickly rugose, with contluent punctures ; scutellum 
rather large; elytra separately and broadly rounded at base, bluntly 
rounded at apex, with fine punctured striz, interstices coriaceous ; legs 
black, L. 7-95 mm. 
On various species of thistles; the larva lives in the heads of the plants; rare ; 
Weybridge and Horsell, Surrey (Power) ; Dover ; Sandgate; Brichton ; New Forest ; 
Portsmouth district ; Glanvilles Wootton, Mulletts Wood, and Wootton Wood from 
aan to 1872, very scarce; Devon; Weston-super-Mare ; Barmouth, Wales (Chap- 
peil). 
CURCULIONINA. 
The relation of this tribe to its allies will be seen by reference to the 
table stating the tribal differences ; it is here regarded as including not 
only Hylobius and Lepyrus but also Liosoma, Liparus (Molytes) and 
Plinthus, which have, as a rule, with certain other genera, been referred 
to a separate tribe, called Liparina or Molytina ; Pissodes, however, and 
Trachodes, which are by some authors referred respectively to the Hylo- 
biina and Liparina, are under the present arrangement placed under 
quite separate tribes; the members of the present tribe are, in many 
