318 RHYNCHOPHORA. [Arthononus. 
On white thorn, the service tree, &e. ; scarce ; Shirley, near Croydon (Champion) ; 
Forest Hill; Coombe Wood (S, Stevens); Darenth and Sydenham (Power) ; Chat- 
ham; Deal (C. G. Hall) ; New Forest (Champion). 
A. conspersus, Desb. Allied to A. pedicularius, but smaller than 
the average specimens of that species; it is also evidently narrower and 
more parallel s ded and always of a pitehy black or pitchy brown colour, 
with the antenne rostrum and legs reddish testaceous, the club of the 
former being fuscous ; the pubescence on the elytra is coarse and seat- 
tered and does not form bands; in the only specimen I have seen this 
whitish pubescence is thick on the thorax and furms a rather strong 
central line, and the legs are entirely testaceous; other distinctive 
characters appear to be found in the fact that the body is more abruptly 
sloped off behind, and that the tibiz appear to be more slender at base. 
L. 3 mm. 
On the mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia) ; rare; Trench Woods, Bromsgrove 
{Blatch) ; Chat Moss (Reston) ; Scotland, rare, Solway and Dee districts (Aviemore, 
&c., Champion and Sharp); it has occurred in France, Germany, and Switzerland ; 
it may prove to be a variety of one of the allied species. 
A. pomorum, L. Pitchy black or fuscous black, clothed with 
ashy pubescence ; head thickly pubescent, with an impression on fore- 
head ; rostrum long and rather slender, slightly curved, antenne long 
and slender, reddish, fuscous at apex ; thorax pitchy, sometimes rufo- 
piceous at sides, not much longer than broad, closely punctured, with 
rather scanty coarse whitish pubescence ; scutellum thickly pubescent ; 
elytra pitchy, sometimes pitchy ferruginous, with alternate denuded and 
white fasciz, the one behind middle composed of whitish pubescence 
being oblique and much the most conspicuous, punctured striz distinct 
and rather strong, interstices very closely punctured ; legs more or less 
pitchy, but variable in colour, femora always more or less dusky, 
anterior pair with a very strong tooth, intermediate and posterior pairs 
with much smaller teeth. L. 3-4 mm. 
On apple trees and also (but less commonly) on_pear trees; somewhat local, but 
common where it occurs ; apparently rather uncommon in the Londen district, Kent, 
aud Surrey, and also in the south ; Peckham ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Devon ; Bristol ; 
Staires Farm, near Newnham-on-Severn; Midland district, widely distributed ; 
Manchester aud Liverpool districts; Scarborough ; Northumberland and Durham 
district ; Stephens records it from Edinburgh, but Dr. Sharp does not mention it as 
Scotch in his list ; Ireland, near Belfast and Dublin. 
A. varians, Payk. (pubescens? W.C.nee Payk.). A little smaller, 
on the average, than the preceding species, red, with the head and 
rostrum black, and the apex of the antenne and the tarsi pitchy; in 
continental specimens the colour is very variable and is sometimes 
entirely black, with the antennz testaceous at base; upper surface 
clothed with very scanty greyish pubescence which is evenly distributed 
and shows no tendency to form fasciz; thorax transverse, with the 
sides strongly narrowed in front and moderately rounded behind, closely 
