Anthonomus.] RHYNCHOPHORA. 317 
pubescence ashy white, mixed with yellowish hairs, the white hairs 
forming a central line on the thorax and covering the scutellum ; there 
is a white transverse band behind middle, and other obsolete white 
markings ; the band is almost straight, wider towards sides and narrowed 
and interrupted at suture ; rostrum elongate, cylindrical, almost straight, 
and rather dull, at all events behind; thorax transverse, slightly rounded 
behind ; scutellum oblong ; elytra flat at base, convex hehind, with a 
well-marked elevation at the base of the third interstice ; punctured 
strie moderately strong, interstices flat, rather shining, comparatively 
smooth; anterior femora armed with a long sharp triangular tooth ; 
anterior tibi very strongly sinuate on their inner margin, the margin 
being almost angled in the centre, L. 2-23 mm, 
By beating hedges (I believe on Crategus) ; Repton, Burton-on-Trent (Robins 
Wood and near osier beds at Bull’s in the meadows) and Bircham Newton, Norfolk ; 
I had the species separated in my collection for some time, and sent a specimen to 
M. Bedel, who returned it as A. Rosine ; it certainly looks very distinct; I believe 
that it is by no means uncommon ; M. des Gozis says that it appears to be not rare 
in France. 
A. pedicularius, L. Very like the preceding but on the average 
slightly smaller; it is, however, very variable both as regards colour 
and size, the former varying from bright red, almost scarlet, to deep 
ferruginous or pitchy red ; it may be distinguished from A. ulmi by its 
broader scutellum, less prominent eyes, shorter and stouter rostrum, 
more broadly distant intermediate coxe and shorter thorax, and especi- 
ally by the much straighter and scarcely sinuate anterior tibia and the 
less strongly marked teeth of the anterior femora ; the underside, more- 
over, is more thickly clothed with whitish pubescence, and the antennxy 
are inserted near to apex of rostrum; in fresh specimens the elytra pre- 
sent the appearance of having two white fascie and two denuded bauds, 
the anterior fascia being much more scantily pubescent than the pos- 
terior ; this is also the case more or less in the preceding species. L. 
3-37 mm. 
On the flowers of white thorn and also on other shrubs and trees, but mostly 
attached to the former ; generally distributed and common throughout the kingdom. 
A. Chevrolati, Desb. Closely allied to A. pedicularius, which it 
resembles in general colour and size, but shorter and more convex, with 
the thorax and elytra appearing separately convex if viewed sideways ; 
it may, moreover, be easily known by the shape of the thorax, which is 
more transverse than in the preceding speeies, slightly narrowed at the 
base and very strongly so at the apex, and with the sides conspicuously 
rounded before the middle ; the interstices, moreover, of the elytra are 
smaller, there is no trace of a tubercle at the base of the third interstice, 
and the anterior whitish fascia is somewhat curved towards the scutel- 
lum ; the colour, as in the two preceding species, is variable L. 3-33 
mm. 
