A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



CURCULIONID^ (continued) 



Cleonus sulcirostris, L. Common on this- 

 tles on the sandhills 



Liosoma ovatulum, Clairv. Generally dis- 

 tributed 



Hylobius abietis, L. Common in fir 

 woods 



Pissodes notatus, Germ. Chat Mass, on 

 moribund fir trees 



Orchestes salicis, L. The only gene- 

 rally abundant species 



stigma, Germ. On birch on the mosses 



rusci, Herbst. 



ilicis, F. Occasional 



fagi, L. 



quercus, L. 



avellanae, Don. 



saliceti, Payk. Very rare ; Eirkdah 

 Rhampus flavicornis, Clair. Not uncom- 

 mon on willow on the sandhills 



Orthocaetes setiger, Beck. Eirkdah sand- 

 hills ; not common 



Grypidius equiseti, F. Generally dis- 

 tributed 



Erirrhinus scirpi, F. Not uncommon 



bimaculatus, F. 



acridulus, L. 

 Thryogenes nereis, Payk. Soutbport 

 Dorytomus vorax, F. Generally distributed 



maculatus, Marsh. 



pectoralis, Gyll. 

 Tanysphyrus lemnx, F. Common 

 Bagous alismatis, Marsh. Common wher- 

 ever Alisma plantago occurs 



limosus, Gyll. Birkdale, among water 



weeds 



Anoplus plantaris, Naez. Generally dis- 

 tributed 



Tychius squamulatus, Gyll. One speci- 

 men, Birkdale sandhills 



Miccotrogus picirostris, F. Southport 



Gymnetron beccabungae, L., with its var. 

 veronicas, Germ. Recorded by Mr. 

 Kidson Taylor from the Bollin 

 Valley 



collinus, Gyll., and G. linariae, Panz. 



On Linaria vulgaris near Southport ; 

 the former rare, the latter very local 



Mecinus pyraster, Herbst. Generally dis- 

 tributed 



Anthonomus ulmi, De G. Bollin Valley, 

 Scarisbrick 



pedicularius, L. Generally common 



pomorum, L. 



rubi, Herbst. 



rosinae, Des Goz. Southport, on poplar 

 Nanophys lythri, F. Common on Lyth- 



rum 

 Cionus scropularias, L. Recorded 



pulchellus, Herbst. 



, 



I Generally 

 . I common 



CURCULIONIDJE (continued) 



Orobitis cyaneus, L. On Viola on the 



sandhills 

 Cceliodes rubicundus, Herbst. Chat Moss, 



Southport 



cardui, Herbst. Not uncommon 



quadrimaculatus, L. Abundant 

 Ceuthorrhynchus. Besides the generally 



abundant species the following 

 occur : 



erica?, Gyll. Commonly on heather 



viduatus, Gyll. Recorded by Chappell 



on Lamium purpureumat/fl//0w;/W</, 

 Manchester 



asperifoliarum, Gyll. Southport 



arcuatus, Herbst. Chat Moss (Kidson 



Taylor and Reston) 



euphorbias, Bris. Southport ; rare 



punctiger, Gyll. 

 Ceuthorrhynchidius floralis, \ 



Payk. 



pyrrhorhynchus, Marsh. I common 



troglodytes, F. 



terminatus, Herbst. Recorded from 



Chat Moss 



dawsoni, Bris. One specimen re- 



corded from the foreshore at South- 



pert 

 Rhinonchus. Except R. bruchoides, Herbst. 



and R. denticollis, Gyll., all our 



British species have been recorded as 



more or less common 

 Litodactylus leucogaster, Marsh. Southport 

 Phytobius comari. Occasional 



quadrituberculatus, F. Rare at South- 



port 

 Limnobaris T-album, L. Generally dis- 



tributed 

 Balaninus salicivorus, Payk. Generally 



common 



pyrrhoceras, Marsh. Local and rare 

 Calandra. Both our species occur com- 



monly in rice and flour mills, etc. 

 Rhyncolus gracilis, Ros. A large number 

 of this rare species was taken by 

 Chappell at Greenheys, Manchester, in 

 a piece of old timber 



Hylastes palliatus, Gyll. Chat Moss 

 Myelophilus piniperda, L. 



Hylesinus crenatus, Gyll. Liverpool, Swin- 



ton near Manchester 

 Cryphalus binodulus, Ratz. Drink-water 



Park, Manchester 



Dryocaetes villosus, F. Not uncommon 

 alni, Georg. Drinkwater Park, South- 



port 

 Tomnicus typographus, L., T. nigritus, 



Gyll., and T. acuminatus, Gyll., 



are all recorded by Chappell from 



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