Elleschus. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 295 
II. Rostrum red ; elytra red, rather variably denuded in 
pabehes Or spotemiaip-ayp et 2s)\su by ler Heh br 2 . E. scanicus, Payk. 
E. bipunctatus, L. (wnpunctatus, Ol). Oblong-oval, black, very 
thickly clothed with grey pubescence, with a more or less distinct de- 
nuded spot on each elytron behind middle near suture; rostrum black, 
rather stout, very slightly curved, pubescent at base, antenne clear red ; 
thorax subtransverse, with the sides somewhat rounded, and narrowed 
in front, distinctly punctured ; scutellum comparatively large ; elytra 
long oval, with distinctly punctured striz, which are almost as broad as 
the interstices ; legs clear red with the femora black and simple, pubes- 
cent, penultimate joint of tarsi broad and strongly bilobed. L. 24-3 mm. 
On sallows and poplars; local, but sometimes common where it occurs ; Norwood, 
Darenth Wood, Shirley, Wimbledon, Forest Hill, Hampstead (common on Salix 
cinerea in Bishops Wood in June); Tilgate; Lords Wood, Southampton; New 
Forest ; Glanvilles Wootton, rare; Knowle, near Birmingham; Bretby Wood, 
Repton ; Burnt Wood, Staffordshire ; Langworth Wood, Lincoln; Northumberland 
and Durham district ; Scotland, local, Solway, Tweed and Forth districts; Ireland, 
near Dublin. 
E. scanicus, Payk. Oblong, testaceous, unequally clothed with 
pale cinereous hairs; head round, pitchy-black, thickly punctured ; eyes 
black, depressed ; rostrum testaceous, about the same size as in the pre- 
ceding species, rather smooth, sometimes pitchy at base; antenne 
entirely pale testaceous ; thorax narrowed in front, a little dilated and 
rounded at the sides, testaceous, thickly and minutely punctured ; elytra 
searcely twice as broad as the base of thorax, with the sides subparallel, 
with deep punctured striz, and flat, rather smooth, interstices, rufo- 
testaceous, with a large pitchy-black patch at the base, sometimes, how- 
ever, extending beyond the middle of the elytra, and sometimes partially 
broken up by the rufous ground colour, outer margins pitehy; the 
suture densely, the base and disc sparingly, clothed with pale cinereous 
hairs ; the breast black, densely covered with white hairs; legs rather 
short, stout, entirely red, pubescent ; femora robust, very obsoletely 
denticulated. L. 3-35 mm. 
On the female catkins of Populus tremula and alba and also on Salix cinerea; 
introduced as British by Mr. Walton (whose description of the species is mainly 
given above) on a single immature specimen taken by Mr. Wollaston in Lincolnshire ; 
it is also recorded in MecNab’s Dublin list as from Portmarnock ; there may, how- 
ever, be some mistake as to the latter locality. 
TYCHIINA. 
This tribe is here regarded as containing the three genera Tychius, 
Miccotrogus and Sibinia, which are very closely allied and are placed 
together under one genus by Thomson and Bedel and other authors ; 
the species may be recognized by the structure of the second ventral seg- 
ment which has its apical margin deeply excavate in a broad semicircle, 
and is produced at each of the margins in a point over thie third seg- 
