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brown, scantily clothed with greyish pubescence ; rostrum moderately 
stout, punctured, antenne red or pitchy red with the club fuscous; 
thorax very small and short with the sides subdilated, more or 
less clouded with greyish pubescence on each side of the central 
line; clytra with the alternate interstices slightly elevated, and 
tessellated with velvety black spots and erect whitish fascicles of 
hair, and with three more or less distinct longitudinal patches at 
scutellum, a transverse fascia behind middle, and a small spot before 
apex black; legs ferruginous or pitchy ferruginous with the femora 
more or less infuscate. L. 21-3 mm. 
On Serophularia nodosa; local, but occasionally found m abundance; Coombe 
Wood, Mizkleham, Caterham, Dorking, St. Mary Cray, Sevenoaks, Cobham, 
Darenth Wood, West Wickham, Blackheath, Wimbledon, Westerham, Chatham, &c. ; 
Hastings; Portsmouth district; Southampton; Glanvilles Wootton; Bath ; 
Swansea ; Midland counties, generally distributed ; Hertford; Cambridge; Liver- 
pool district ; Manchester district, general; Northumberland and Durham district ; 
Scotland, rare, Solway district ; it probably occurs in Ireland. 
OROBITINA, 
One genus, Orobitis, is contained in this tribe, which is by many 
authors placed under the Ceuthorrhynchina, but may be distinguished 
by the quite exceptional structure of the first ventral segment, which 
is very short and is divided into three equal parts by the posterior coxe, 
which reach to the base of the second ventral segment; the body is 
globose, and glabrous above ; the rostrum is received in a groove of the 
prosternum and the head is retracted; the anterior cox are distant ; 
the scutellum is large and distinct ; the legs are elongate ; the under 
surface is very thickly pubescent. 
OROBITIS, Germar. 
One species only is contained in this genus, which is somewhat 
widely distributed in Central and Southern Europe; it is a small, deep 
black or bluish black, globose insect, and when it has its legs and 
rostrum folded may easily be passed over as a seed ; it is found on species 
of Viola, and according to Hardy the larva lives in the ovaries of 
V. canina,. 
O. cyaneus, L. Globose, nigro-ceeruleous or black, upper surface 
smooth shining and almost glabrous ;* underside and scutellum densely 
clothed with white or yellowish-white scales ; head punctured, rostrum 
long, almost straight, punctured at base smooth from the insertion of the 
antennz, which are long and pitchy, and terminate in an elongate club ; 
thorax transverse, almost semicircular, very finely punctured, often 
bluish or violaceous ; elytra very convex, gibbous at base, with the 
* In fresh specimens the upper surface is sometimes sparingly furnished with 
narrow indistinct bluish scales. ; i 
