Gymuetron. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 309 
G. beccabunge, L. (v. veronica, Germ.). Black, with the lateral 
pieces of the breast and the sides of thorax (occasionally the greater 
part of the latter), clothed with thick whitish or yellowish white, some- 
times reddish, scales, rest of the upper surface scantily pubescent; an- 
tenne dark ferruginous or red at base; rostrum narrowed in front, 
scarcely curved ; thorax transverse, with the sides rounded and narrowed 
in front, closely punctured; elytra at base a little broader than base of 
thorax, with distinct punctured strie, interstices flat, evidently punc- 
tured ; legs dark, or more or less red, very variable. LL. 2 mm. 
Male with the antenna inserted a little further in front of middle of 
rostrum than in female. 
In the type G. beccabunge the legs should be entirely red ; whereas in 
the var. veronice the femora should be black, but this distinction cannot 
hold good; according to Thomson (Skand. Col. 312) @, veronica, 
which he regards as a separate species, is distinguished from G. becca- 
bunge (in which insect the thorax is entirely covered with scales or 
“yellowish white tomentose pubescence ”), by having the thorax de- 
nuded in the middle, the femora black, the thorax evidently broader 
(ste) at base than the elytra and narrowed towards apex, and the 
elytra with the strie a little more strongly punctured, the interstices 
being subseriately punctured ; it is also smaller, L. 1;mm. The 
species, however, cannot be regarded as distinct as the insect is so 
variable, and there appears to be no constant variety even. 
Marshy places ; on Veronica beccabunga and Scrophularia aquatica ; local but not 
uncommon in some districts ; Hammersmith, Shirley, Claygate, Mickleham, Cater- 
ham, Woking, Ripley, Esher, Cowley, Cowfold, Colney Hatch, Birdbrook, Eastry, 
Maidstone, Dartford, &.; Dover; Arundel; Portsmouth district; New Forest ; 
Glanvilles Wootton ; Piymouth ; Portishead ; Aylsham, Norfolk ; Whatcote ; Salford 
Priors; Bewdley; Coleshill; Repton, Burton-on-Trent ; Manchester ; Heysham, 
near Lancaster; Northumberland aud Durham district, widely spread but not 
abundant ; Scotland, local, Solway, Tweed, Forth and Tay districts. 
G. melanarius, Germ. (intaminata, Steph.). Oblong, deep blaek, 
upper and under surface with scanty greyish pubescence ; rostrum 
moderate, narrowed in front, somewhat Tugose ; antenne pitchy or 
reddish ; thorax transverse, with the sides rounded, closely sculptured ; 
elytra parallel-sided, with shallow, but distinctly punctured striae, in- 
terstices finely punctured ; legs black; the small size, shape and black 
legs will easily distinguish the species. L. 12 mm: 
By sweeping herbage, in woods, lanes, &e.; on Veronica ; Von Heyden mentions 
it us attached to Veronica Teucrium in Germany ; very local ; London district, not 
uncommon, Caterham, Mickleham, Claygate, Shirley, Horsell, Darenth and Birch 
Woods, Dorking, Faversham, Sevenoaks, Chatham ; Cambridge ; Ashwicken ; 
Suffolk ; Folkestone; Hastings district ; New Forest ; Swansea (doubtful) ; Glou- 
cester ; Stratford-on-Avou ; I know of no loculities further north. 
G. rostellum, Herbst. Oblong-ovate, black, with the base of 
the antenne and the whole of the tibie red, clothed with erect black 
and whitish setz which are very distinct at the sides of thurax in front 
