Mecinus.| RHYNCHOPHORA, 313 
gall in the centre of the flowering head of the plant ; common and generally distri- 
buted throughout the kingdom ; in winter it is often found hybernating i ciacks of 
bark, moss, &e. 
M. circulatus, Marsh (marginatus, Beck. ; jfimbriatus, Germ.). 
Very like the preeeding, but smaller and more depressed and easily 
distinguished by the broadly light margins of thorax and elytra ; pitchy 
black or pitchy brown ; rostrum rather stout, curved, black ; antenne 
red with the apex dark; thorax as long as broad, closeiy and finely 
punctured, with a narrow smooth central line which is often eovered 
with whitish scales; scutellum white; elytra with rather shallow 
punctured striz ; interstices finely punctured ; femora black, not toothed, 
tibiz and tarsi red. L. 23-23 mm. 
Male with the antennz inserted in front of middle of rostrum which 
is evidently shorter 
Female with the antenne inserted about the middle of rostrum which 
is evidently longer. 
On Plantago lanceolata ; also on P. coronopus ; occasionally found by sweeping, 
and, in the winter, under bark; not common; Weybridge, Sheerness, Chatham ; 
Henley ; Barham, Suffolk ; Amberley and Arundel Park ; Littlehampton ; Southsea ; 
Isle of Wight (where I found a fine series in April, 1388, on the cliffs near Sandown) ; 
Portland ; Glanvilles Wootton; Devon; Swansea; Wallasey, Cueshire. 
M. collaris, Germ. This species is less eylindrical and differs 
considerably in sculpture from the two preceding and forms a sort of 
transition between Mecinus and Gymmnetron, under which all three 
species are classed by some authors; oblong-oval, somewhat elongate, 
black, or reddish black (in immature specimens reddish or reddish 
testaceous), rather shining, with scanty grey pubescenec, posterior 
margin of thoiax and sides of breast closely covered with reddish 
yellow scales; rostrum short and stout, punctured, nearly straight ; 
antenne pitchy with the base sometimes lighter ; thorax with the 
sides slightly rounded, and narrowed in front, very closely punctured ; 
elytra elongate-oval, with shallow but distinctly punctured strix, 
interstices indistinctly punctured; legs black or pitchy. L. 22-3 
mm. 
Male with the antenne inserted further in front of middle of rostrum 
than in female. 
Salt marshes ; on Plantago coronopus and P. maritima ; the larve appear to form 
galls at the base of the flowering head of the plant; occasionally in flood refuse ; 
very local, and, as a rule, rare; Chatham and Sheerness (Walker); Gravesend 
(S. Stevens); neighbourhood of Southampton; Southsea, Salterus, in wuiml ers 
(Moncreaff) ; Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire (Chappell); the insect may be easily reared 
from the galls. 
ANTHONOMINA. 
As far as the European fauna is concerned, this tribe, as here consti- 
tuted, contains the two species Anthononus and Brachonyx, which may 
be distinguished by their very pronincnt eyes, and by having the tarsal 
