Brachonyz. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 321 
distributed in Europe, especially in the north; it lives on Pinus sylves- 
tris, and the larva undergoes its transformations between two pine-needles, 
which are joined together and are by the presence of the insect arrested 
in their development ; the species may be known by its elongate and 
subparallel form and short stout legs, and by having the penultimate 
joint of the tarsi very strongly bilobed ; the rostrum is long, slender 
and curved, and the antenne are inserted behind its centre ; in Britain 
the species is confined to the Highland districts of Scotland, in which it 
is very local. 
B. pineti, Payk. (indigena, Herbst.). Elongate, linear, subparallel, 
clothed with scanty but rather coarse pale pubescence, which is stronger 
on the head and thorax, rather dull ; head and thorax dark, elytra red- 
dish testaceous; rostrum shining, black, sometimes reddish-brown ; 
antenne red ; eyes flat, somewhat widely separated on vertex ; thorax 
transverse, slightly narrowed in front, shallowly and not closely punc- 
tured ; scutellum with whitish hairs; elytra very long, with strongly 
unctured striz and narrow interstices, which are furnished with rows of 
short hairs ; legs short and stout, red, tarsi broad; intermediate coxe 
contiguous. L. 23-22 mm. 
On young Scotch Fir; very local; Tay, Dee and Moray districts (Braemar, Avie- 
more, Rannoch, &c. (Sharp, Champion and others) ); the species was first taken by 
Turner in 1860, who said he had beaten his first three specimens off birch. 
CIONINA. 
This tribe is here regarded as including both Cronus and Nanophyes ; 
it is characterized by the formation of the second, third and fourth ven- 
tral segments of the abdomen, which are produced into a tooth at apex 
near margin ; the antenne are inserted in front of the middle of the 
rostrum and have the funiculus five-jointed and the club, as a rule, 
large ; the anterior coxe are contiguous and the posterior coxe are 
distant ; the tarsal claws are connate; the transformations of Cionus 
closely resemble those of Hypera, and will be further noticed. 
In the formation of the trochanters the genus Vanophyes resembles 
Apion, and on this ground is classed by Bedel with the latter genus as a 
separate sub-family Apiide ; the relations, however, of Nanophyes to 
Cionus are so strong, and its differences from Apion, apart from the 
trochanters, so great, that it can hardly be separated from the position 
it has usually occupied among the Cionina, although it may, perhaps, 
be in some respects regarded as a transitionary genus. 
J. Femora not attaining coxze ; trochanters long; scutellum 
scarcely visible ; thorax comparatively large, not much 
narrower at basethan elytra; size small . . NANOPHYES, Schinh. 
II. Femora attaining coxe; trochanters short; ‘scutellum 
large and conspicuous ; thorax small, much narrower at 
base than elytra, which are almost subglobose . . « Cronus, Clairv. 
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