Ceuthorrhynchidius. | RHYNCHOPHORA. 367 
upper side scantily, clothed with greyish scales; thorax long, scarcely 
constricted at all in front, closely punctured, with lateral tubercles 
obsolete or absent, anterior margin scarcely raised, basal margin almost 
straight ; the three longitudinal lines of scales are often very obsolete or 
almost absent ; elytra short, almost round, with comparatively strong 
strie and somewhat convex interstices, which are rather roughened 
behind and are furnished with rows of very short recumbent hairs ; legs 
rather long, L. 1-14 mm. 
On Plantago coronopus, Buckthorn Plantain, and perhaps also on Plantago mari- 
tima ; very local, but abundant where it occurs; I have found more than thirty 
specimens on one plant of the former species on the cliffs near Ventnor, Isle of 
Wight, at the end of April or beginning of May ; Strood; Dover; Folkestone 3 Sea- 
ford, Sussex ; Southsea ; Portsmouth district ; Isle of Wight, Ventnor and Sandown ; 
Whitsand Bay, Plymouth, abundant (J. J. Walker) ; Scotland, rare, Solway district 
(Sharp); when disturbed the insect folds its limbs, falls, and remains motionless and 
may very easily be passed over; I used to consider it a great rarity in the Isle of 
Wight, although collecting in the place in which it was most abundant, until I dis- 
covered its habits ; it is probably much more widely distributed than is at present 
known, if we may judge from the Scotch record. 
TAPINOTUWS, Schonherr. 
This genus contains a single species which is extremely rare in 
Britain ; it may be known by its oblong and rather depressed body 
taken in conjunction with the six-jointed funiculus of the antenne and 
the fact that the elytra are strongly cut back angularly at shoulders ; the 
antenné are inserted a little before the middle of the rostrum which is 
rather stout ; the thorax is even, subcylindrical, scarcely constricted 
before apex, and bisinuate at base; the legs are rather long with the 
femora obsoletely toothed and the claws of the tarsi bifid ; the elytra 
are not roughened at apex ; the insect occurs very rarely on Lysimachia 
in maishy places and the larva feeds at the base of the stem or in the 
root of the plant. 
T. sellatus, F. (/ysimachie, Ol.). Oblong, black, clothed on both 
the upper and under sides with white scales, with two broad dark 
streaks on thorax and a common black transverse fascia on elytra 
abbreviated at sides ; antenne, tibie and tarsi ferruginous; head with 
the vertex carinate behind depressed between eyes; rostrum stout, 
clothed with seales and punctured, shining at apex; thorax half as 
broad at base as elytra, subcylindrical, a little shorter than broad, 
scarcely constricted at apex, with the sides almost straight ; elytra 
with sides parallel and humeral tubercles marked, depressed on disc, 
rather finely punctate-striate, excised at shoulders ; legs rather long, 
prosternum deeply excised at apex. L. 4mm. 
Male with the intermediate tibie armed with a small hook and the 
last ventral segment impressed at apex. 
On Lysimachia vulgaris ; extremely rare; in Power’s and Wollaston’s collections ; 
