Erivrhinus.] - RHYNCHOPHORA, 269 
indistinct; sides of ventral segments with whitish 
I lates ha eR cc ach cy tng ss oy i. (ACURPT, |. 
2. Elytra longer and less oval; light spots on elytra 
distinct: sides of ventral segments without scales; 
scale-like pubescence of elytra arranged, as a rule, in 
lines on the alternate interstices . . . . . . . E. Brmacunatus, F. 
ii. Elytra with very scanty scattered hair-like scales, with- 
out white spots behind middle; size smaller est) Ye AGRIDULUS, i. 
II. Thorax not closely punctured on dise, with the central line 
very indistinct or absent ; surface deep black, glabrous aud 
Venycemmungi lege red: SN Seo Te el aenomtonar B 
E. seirpi, Ff. Black, dull, clothed moderately thickly with fine 
fuscous grey scales, which, however, are much more dense in some 
specimens than in others ; head smalJ, punctured, rostrum rather longer 
than the head and thorax, moderately curved, black, shining, carinated 
above, distinetly striated and punctured; antenne long and _ slender, 
pitchy-red ; thorax nearly as long as broad, rounded at sides, convex, 
thickly, coarsely and more or less confluently punctured, with a narrow 
smooth central line ; scutellum thickly covered with ashy scales : elytra 
oblong-ovate, much broader at base than thorax, with punctured stria, 
which are deeper towards suture, interstices convex, transversely rugu- 
lose on dise, thickly granulate towards sides; the surface is more or 
less thickly clothed with scales, but the sculpture is always plainly 
visible, and a little behind middle towards suture there is a more or 
Jess distinct small patch of whitish hairs or scales ; sides of metasternum 
and margins of the abdomen densely clothed with minute tufts of 
whitish hairs or seales ; legs rather long, moderately stout, pitchy-red 
or reddish-testaceous, thinly pubescent. L, 5-72 mm. 
Marshy places; on Scirpus; often found hybernating in stems of Typha latifolia ; 
very local; first found by Mr. S. Stevens at Hammersmith Marshes ; Notting Hill 
(formerly); Dulwich; Gravesend ; Hastings district (common at Peppering and 
(ruestling); Faygate; Portsmouth district; Glanvilles Wootton; Rawdon Woods, 
Bromsgrove ; Lancaster; Mr. Johnson records it from Armagh. 
&. bimaculatus, Ff. More elongate and parallel-sided than the 
preceding species, to which it is closely allied, and with the elytra 
longer and less oval ; it may also be known by the almost total absence 
of striation on the rostrum, the much less pronounced striz on disc of 
elytra and the fact that the sides of the abdomen are not clothed with 
scales ; the white spots on the elytra are more distinct, and the fuscous- 
grey pubescence is, as a rule, arranged in lines on the alternate inter- 
stices, especially in fresh specimens, which appear very often to be 
distinctly lineated, whereas in F. scirpi the clothing of the elytra is more 
or less confused; the punctuation also of the thorax is slightly coarser 
than in the latter species ; size very variable. L. 54-10 mm. 
Male with the abdomen longitudinally impressed at base and the 
antenne inserted further in front of middle of rostrum, which is shorter 
than in female. 
