The Beetles of the Moorlands 



legs, like the body, varying from light brown to 

 black. 



There are only two other British species in this genus 

 of Lochmcea, one found on willows and one on hawthorn, 

 especially when in flower, and both of them, although 

 similar in shape and size to suturalis, are much lighter 

 in colour. 



Then there is the weevil or Rhynchvphoron, which 

 usually occurs with the Lochmcea. It is a Strophoso- 

 mus, of which genus we have already taken one member, 

 S. coryli (Plate I., Fig. 12) ; they are beetles with 

 a short, broad rostrum, very projecting eyes, and a 

 short convex, almost spherical hind body. This heather 

 species, called Strophosomus later alts (the bordered 

 Strophosomus), Fig. 12, Plate V., is slightly smaller, 

 and of a rather longer oval than is coryli. It is of a 

 shining black with a border round the sides of the 

 elytra of pinkish silvery scales ; these light scales are 

 also scattered over the sides of the thorax and the 

 head. It is, however, only in comparatively fresh 

 specimens that this light border can be really well 

 seen, as in its journey through life these scales quickly 

 get rubbed off, and then the whole beetle appears a 

 shining black. The head and thorax are very deeply 

 punctured, and the elytra strongly punctured in 

 lines. We shall have no difficulty in recognizing this 

 species, as there is none other occurs on the heather 

 at all like it, with its short rostrum, protuberant eyes, 

 and short convex hind body. 



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