Gymnetron. ] RHYNCHOPHORA. ell 
By sweeping herbage, in woods, on cha'ky hill sides, &e. ; local, but not uncommon 
where it occurs; Dorking, Chattenden, Chatham ;° Norfolk; Suffolk; Ashwicken 
aud Littlington, near Cambridge ; Folkestone; Hastings; Arundel; Holm Bush, 
Brighton ; Portsmouth district ; Glanvilles Wootton 3 Leicestershire ; North Wales; 
Scarborough ; Mabberley, Cheshire, rare, Morecambe, common (Chappell); Heysham, 
near Lancaster; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, scarce, Solway, 
Tweed, Forth and Clyde districts ; Ireland, Armagh, rare (Rev. W. F. Johuson) ; 
the species appears to be very rare in the Midland counties. 
G. antirrhini, Payk. (noctis, Brit. Cat.). This and the two 
following species much resemble in general appearance the species of 
Miarus, but may easily be known by the shorter rostrum ; oblong- 
ovate, black, densely clothed with short erect greyish and whitish pilose 
pubescence; rostrum short and straight, abruptly subulate from the 
insertion of the antenne ; antennez pitchy ; thorax transverse, with the 
sides rounded and narrowed in front, closely sculptured, almost granu- 
late ; elytra broader at base than base of thorax, with distinct pune- 
tured striz, interstices flat, finely rugose ; femora gradually thickened, 
posterior pair obsoletely toothed. L. 21-3 mm. 
On Linaria vulgaris ; very local, but often common where it occurs ; Mickleham, 
Birch Wood, Dartford, Crehamhurst, Chatham; Bushey; Norfolk; Brandon, 
Suffolk ; Ashwicken, near Cambridge ; Birehington ; Deal; Hastings; Brighton; 
Portsmouth district ; Shirley Warren, Southampton (abundant, Gorham); Port!and ; 
Glanvilles Wootton; Devon; Repton, Burton-on-Trent, in flood refu-e, Twyford 
Road (W. Garneys). Ireland, near Dublin; it has not been recorded from the north 
of England or from Scotland. 
G. collinus, Gyll. Broad, oblong, slightly ovate, thickly clothed 
with coarse fulvous grey pubescence, which is arranged in more or less 
distinct rows on elytra; rostrum rather short, feebly curved, not 
subulate at apex ; antenne reddish with the apex dark; thorax very 
transverse, with the sides rounded, closely punctured, with a more or less 
distinct raised central line ; elytra scarcely broader at base than thorax, 
with rather strong punctured striz, interstices flat, rugose ; legs black 
or pitchy, intermediate and posterior femora strongly toothed, anterior 
femora with much smaller teeth. L. 3-4 mm. 
On Linaria vulgaris; the larva undergoes its metamorphosis in a gall at the 
roots of the plant; apparently very rare; Charlton pits, Kent (S. Stevens) ; in Dr. 
Power’s collection there are two specimens from Mr. Walton’s collection, and it has 
also I believe been taken by Mr Scott, but I do not know the localities. Mr. 
Waterhouse refers the Rhinusa collina of Stephen’s Manual (p. 218), recorded as 
taken in Yorkshire, to- @. puscuorum, but the description appears to accord with the 
present species. 
G. linariw, Panz. Extremely like the preceding but very easily 
distinguished by the fact that the femora are simple and not furnished 
with teeth and by the greyer pubescence ; broad, oblong, slightly ovate, 
somewhat depressed, black, scantily clothed with grey pubescence, which 
is more distinct on the interstices of the elytra ; rostrum scarcely curved ; 
thorax short, very transverse, with the sides rounded, scarcely narrower at 
