Ceuthorrhynchus. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 347 
On Cochlearia officinalis and Cardamine pratensis, especially in marshy places ; 
local, but sometimes found in abundance; Hammersmith, Mickleham, Esher, 
Woking, Coombe Wood, Darenth, Wimbledon, Highgate, Cowfold, Ripley, Hasle- 
mere, Faversham, Snodland, Chobham, Chatham, Maidstone; Aylsham, Norfolk; 
Wrabness, Essex; Folkestone; Hastings; Amberley; Holm Bush, Brighton; 
Portsmouth district; Knowle, near Birmingham; Alton; Aigburth shore, near 
Liverpool ; Scotland, not common, Solway aud Forth districts. 
(C. suturalis, F. Dull black, with the base of the antenne and 
the legs ferruginous; underside clothed with thickly set whitish scales ; 
upper side with greyish or brownish-grey hairs, and a broad line of 
white scales extending from the neck to the apex of the elytra, a 
character that will at once distinguish it; thorax with the anterior 
margin moderately raised, sides without tubercle ; elytra with punctured 
striz ; legs moderate, femora not toothed, tarsal claws simple, rather 
slender. L. 2-23 mm. 
On flowers of species of Alliwm (leeks, onions, &c.); a single specimen only has 
been recorded as British, which was taken by Mr. T. Sidebotham in May, 1865, 
crawling on the sand at Llandudno, on the Welsh Coast; no other specimen has 
occurred, and the species appears to require further confirmation as British. ) 
C. erice, Gyll. (albo-setosus, Gyll. ; s.g. Mierelus, Thoms.), A 
small, short species, black, in fresh specimens powdered. with yellowish- 
green scales, antenne, legs and rostrum red; base of suture of elytra, 
and underside, thickly clothed with white scales ; eyes separated by a 
very narrow punctured space, rostrum long and slender; thorax com- 
paratively long, not strongly constricted in front, deeply punctured, 
with an interrupted, and often obsolete, central furrow, and a small 
tubercle on each side; elytra short and broad, much broader than thorax, 
with prominent shoulders and deep punctured striz, interstices narrow, 
with small sharp rough tubercles and rows of erect white sete ; femora 
robust, not toothed, tarsal claws bifid. LL. 1{-1$ mm. 
Male with the posterior tibiz armed with a hook, and the last seg- 
ment of the abdomen impressed. 
On ling and heather (Calluna and Erica); local, but common where it_occurs, and 
generally distributed throughout the kingdom from the New Forest and the Scilly 
Islands to the Shetland Islands. 
Cc. erysimi, F. Short oval, upper surface not strongly convex, 
seneous or brassy black with the elytra bright metallic blue or greenish 
blue, very scantily pubescent, apparently glabrous, underside with scanty 
whitish scales ; thorax comparatively long, strongly constricted before 
apex, sparingly but deeply punctured on disc, with an interrupted 
central furrow, and a small tuberele on each side; elytra with mode- 
rately strong punctured strie, muricate at apex, interstices rather 
broad, slightly convex; antenne, rostrum and legs black, the latter 
moderately long, not toothed, claws simple. L. 15-1? mm. 
Male with the posterior tibiz armed with a hook, and the last ventral 
segment with a fovea in middle. 
