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72 RHYNCHUPHOR A. | Thryogenes. 
different in form; the second joint of the funiculus is shorter in pro- 
portion to the first, and the third and following ones somewhat monili- 
form or transverse; the thorax is less finely punctured and almost 
without scales on disc, and the elytra have a spot before the white 
patch behind middle more evidently denuded, and the white patch 
itself, as a rule, more distinct ; the second joint of the tarsi, moreover, 
is shorter and sub-transverse. L. 35-43 mm. 
Marshy places; by sweeping reeds, &c. ; local, but common where it occurs ; Clay- 
gate, Norwood, Shirley, Woking, Sheerness, Whitstable, Gravesend, Faversham ; 
Norfolk; Birchington; Shipley, near Horsham, and Rusper; Deal; Sandwich; 
Hastings; Hastbourne ; Southsea and Portsmouth district; Sandown, I-le of Wight ; 
New Forest; Glanvilles Wootton; Bewdley Forest; Portishead; Swansea; Bar- 
mouth; Knowle, near Birmingham ; Needlwood; Willington, near Burton-on-Trent ; 
Horning Fen; Oxtord; Yorkshire; Northumberland and Darbam district, Twizel 
(Selby) ; Ireland, near Belfast; the species has not apparently been found in Scot- 
land; it appears to become very scarce further north than the south-micland 
counties but to be generally locally common in the south-eastern and southern 
districts. 
T. scirrhosus, Gyll. Very like the two preceding species, from 
which it may be known by the clothing of the elytra which is chiefly 
pilose, the suture being furnished with a band of scales, and by the 
evidently stronger crenate strive on the disc of the elytra ; it is smaller 
than the ordinary specimens of . festwew, but in size appears to be 
somewhat intermediate between the two species; in the striation of 
the rostrum it resembles the last-mentioned species, but this character 
is much more strongly marked, and it ditfers moreover in haying the 
joints of the funiculus of the antenne and the second joint of the 
tarsi relatively shorter; from 7’. Nereis it may be known by the much 
duller and more strongly sculptured rostrum and the more deeply and 
closely punctured thorax, as well as by the characters before mentioned. 
L. 3$-65 mm. 
Marshy places, by sweeping aquatic plants; not common; Hsher, Horsell, Barnes, 
Sheerness, Eltham, Merton, Colney Hatch, Kingsbury ; Hammersmith Marshes and 
Notting Hill (formerly); Pegwell Bay; Bopeep, near Hastings; New Forest; 
Sutton Park, near Birmingham; Church Stretton; Ireland, near Dublin (McNab’s 
List). 
DORYTOMUS, Stephens. 
The members of this genus are about forty in number and are 
peculiar to Europe, Northern Asia, and the more northern parts 
of North America ; one or two have been described from Southern 
Africa; they may be recognized from the two preceding genera 
by having the anterior legs, which are approximate at base, more 
or less elongated, the anterior femora toothed and the thorax 
coustricted in front; about thirty species are found in Europe, of 
which thirteen or fourteen have been recorded as British ; they nsually 
frequent willows, sallows, aspens and poplars; the larve attack 
the catkins or terminal shoots; the sexual characters are in many cases 
