Erirrhinina.| RUYNCHOPHORA. 265 
with the suture at least clothed with short 
scales; eyes rounded, subeonvex . . . . THRYOGENES, Bedel. 
II. Anterior femora toothed . . .. =. . =. .- - Dorytomus, Steph. 
ORTHOCEETES, Germar. 
This genus comprises four or five species, which are confined to 
Europe; our single representative is a small dull insect, somewhat 
elongate, with very strong raised sete on the alternate interstices of the 
elytra, and with the shoulders not marked ; it is found at the roots of 
plants and exactly resembles the ground on which it occurs, being in 
fact often covered with an incrustation of dirt, somewhat afier the 
fashion of Georyssus. 
O. setiger, Beck. Oblong, pitchy brown, but usually covered with 
mud and dust so that it appears dull grey; rostrum rather long and 
stout, carinate; antenne red-brown; head and thorax covered with 
rough recumbent grey hairs, the latter subquadrate, rugosely punctured ; 
elytra elongate-oval, with deep punctured striw, alternate interstices 
raised, with a row of stout and erect whitish-yellow sete, L. 23-27 
mm. 
At roots of low plants, especially Senecio jacobea (Ragwort), Rumew acetosella, 
&e., in sandy and chalky places ; alsoin moss; very local but widely distributed and 
not uncommon in some districts, especially in the South ; Caterham, Croydon, Shirley, 
Box Hill, Woking, Ripley, Faversham, Mickleham, Cowley, Weybridge, Chatham, 
Sheerness, Southend, Epping Forest; Birdbrook, Essex; Hertford; Wicken Fen; 
Littliugton, Cambridge (one specimen, Power); Kingsgate; Dover; Deal; Hast- 
ings; Lewes; Holm Bushand Kemp Town, Brighton ; Hayling Island ; Portsmouth 
district; Isle of Wight, Ventnor, &:+.; Chesil Beach; Weymouth; Glanvilles 
Wootton; Whitsand Bay, Plymouth ; Woollacombe Sands, Devon; Scotland, Tweed 
and Forth districts (recorded on Murray’s authority, Dr. Sharp having scen no 
Scotch specimens) ; Ireland, Portmarnock. Mr, Moncreaff has taken the species iz 
cop. on flowers of ragwort in April, and says that in autumn and winter it is to be 
met with in dead leaves at the base of this plant. 
PSEUDOSTYPHLUUWS, Tournier. 
This genus contains three European species; the type P. pilumnus 
has usually been included under EHrirrhinus, but it differs considerably 
from that genus and in size and general appearance more closely 
res mbles Orthocetes, from which it may be known by its well marked 
shoulders ; the rows of coarse raised sctze on the elytra will easily dis- 
tinguish it from other allied species; the antennz have the second joint 
of the funiculus much shorter than the first and somewhat rounded, 
the tarsi are short with the second joint transverse, and the femora are 
not toothed. 
P. pilumnus, Gyll. (setiger, Perris.). Oblong-ovate, pitchy or 
reddish brown, thickly clothed with pale grey depressed scales; head 
