Anoplus. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 993 
regarded as merely a large female of the latter, and the question still 
appears to be somewhat doubtful; Dr. Sharp, however, recognizes the 
species in his second catalogue, and M. Bedel also gives it as distinct, 
and as recently found in France, in his catalogue; it had apparently 
not been discovered when he wrote the first part of his work; they are 
small, deep black, robust, strongly sculptured insects, with stout legs 
and rostrum, and somewhat resemble in shape small specimens of 
Orchestes ; the tibiz are armed with a strong hook at apex, and the 
second segment of the abdomen is more than twice as long as third. 
I. Size smaller; interstices ef elytra rugosely punctured . . A, PLANTA kIs, Naez. 
II. Size larger ; interstices of elytra with moderately regular 
COWS OR PUNCLUTES sts Se lw es we es AD ROBORIS, Sufr: 
A. plantaris, Naez. Obovate, convex, black, slightly shining, with 
the antennz which are rather short and are inserted in front of middle 
of rostrum testaceous at base ; rostrum rather stout, punctured, eyes 
scarcely prominent ; thorax convex, transverse, with sides narrowed in 
front, closely and rather strongly punctured ; scutellum and sides of 
breast clothed with white scales; elytra broader than thorax, with 
shoulders well marked, with strong and crenulately punctured striz, 
interstices convex, narrower than the strie, furnished with very short 
erect whitish setz ; legs entirely black, femora not thickened. L. 2-27 
mm. 
On young birch, alder, &c., in woods ; common and generally distributed through. 
out England and Scotland ; Ireland, Lough Neagh district, &e. 
A. roboris, Suffr. Very closely allied to the preceding, but larger, 
with the thorax more coarsely punctured, the punctures being partly 
confluent, and the striz on the elytra less deep, the interstices being in 
consequence broader and flatter; the interstices, moreover, instead of 
being rugose, are furnished with tolerably regular rows of punctures, 
each bearing a short white seta, inclined backwards; the characters, 
however, seem more distinct in a description than they really are if 
actually examined. L, 2} mm. 
On alders (4. glutunosa and according to Nérdlinger 4. ineana); also on oaks ; 
rare; Leith Hill (Champion) ; Coombe and Swithland Woods (Power) ; Lords 
Wood, Southampton (Gorham) ; Leicestershire (received by Wollaston) ; Scotland, 
very rare, on oak (Solway district). 
ACALYPTINA. 
This tribe is closely allied to the Elleschina but differs in having the 
tarsal claws simple and the pygidium exposed ; both the Acalyptina and 
the Elleschina are placed by some authors under the lychiina, from which, 
however, they differ in the formation of the second segment of the 
abdomen, which in the last-mentioned tribe has the posterior margin 
produced at each side and extending over the third segment to the base 
of the fourth. 
