Celiodes. | RHYNCHOPHORA,. 339 
Male with the posterior tibia armed with a hook, and the last ventral 
segment obsoletely impressed. 
On the common nettle, Urtica dioica; very common and generally distributed 
throughout the kingdom; it is perhaps the most universally abundant of all the 
British Curculionide. 
C. geranii, Payk. (afinis, Payk. (s.g. Allodactylus, Weise.) ). Short 
and broad, convex, deep black, shining, without scales on upper surface, 
underside thickly clothed with whitish scales; head rather coarsely 
punctured, rostrum moderately long, punctured, with a smooth central 
line ; thorax closely and distinctly punctured, very convex, with very 
small lateral tubercles ; elytra short and broad, with rather deep, almost 
‘impunctate, strie; and with the interstices each furnished with a row of 
setose tubercles, the setz being scarcely visible if viewed sideways ; legs 
stout, black, intermediate and posterior femora rather obsoletely toothed. 
L. 27-23 mm. 
Male with the posterior tibiz armed with a hook. 
On various species of Geranium, especially G. sylvaticum, and also on G. pratense, 
sanguineum and robertianum; in chalky and sandy places on the sides of cliffs, &. ; 
commoner near the coast than inland; occasionally in moss in winter; locally 
common; London district, not uncommon; Bristol; Swansea; Barmouth, sand- 
hills, common ; Llandudno; Bewdley ; Matlock; Knaresborough, Yorkshire ; Man- 
chester district, general but rare; Northumberland and Durham district, Axwell 
Park, Gibside and Hartlepool; Scotland, widely distributed, Solway, Tweed, Forth, 
Dee, and probably other districts; Kirkcaldy and Kinghorn (Power); it has not been 
recorded from Ireland, but almost certainly occurs in that country; the records south 
of the Midland districts appear to belong to the following species. 
Cc. exiguus, Ol. This species, which*by many authors has been 
considered only a variety of the preceding, may be distinguished by 
being rather smaller, and by having the anterior margin of the thorax 
more strongly reflexed, the sete of the elytra plainly visible if viewed 
sideways, and the asperities or tubercles on the interstices of the elytra 
less even; the punctuation of the thorax also is closer and finer ; the 
differences are, certainly, comparative, but seem to be constant. 
L. 24-25 mm. 
In drives and paths through and on the borders of woods; on various species of 
Geranium, especially G. sylvaticum, G. molle (according to M. H. Brisout), 
G. pusillum, rotundifolium and dissectum; London district, not uncommon ; 
Darenth, Mickleham, Belvedere, Ripley, Dartford, Chatham, Gravesend, Sheerness, 
Walton-on-Naze ; Whitstable; Deal; Eastbourne; Arundel; Devon; Bewdley ; 
Northumberland and Durham district, taken in plenty on Geranium sylvaticum by 
Mr. Bold; the records of the two species appear to be somewhat confused, but Mr. 
Champion informs me that he believes that all the southern records for C. geranié 
must be referred to this species, as Geraniwm sylvaticum, which is the chief food-plant 
of C. geranii, does not occur in the south at all; it appears, however, not to be 
confined to this plant, but to occur on other species of Geranium. 
POOPHAGWS, Schonherr. 
Two species are comprised in this genus, according to the Munich 
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