16 Mr. J. Walton on the genera 
subglobose form ; the elytra are likewise shorter in proportion to 
the breadth, the base elevated and slightly straightened behind 
the shoulders. I think that Mr. Stephens has not a typical spe- 
cimen of Curc. uniformis of Marsham, but the examples in Kirby’s 
MSS. and museum which he refers to Marsham agree with this 
species. 
Found very abundantly in hedges on the black-thorn and on 
Umbellifere from May to July. 
9. Phyllobius viridicollis, Fab., Gyll., Steph., Schénh. 
The form of almost every organ of this insect is extremely 
similar to the preceding; but it differs im having the scales 
elliptic-lanceolate ; the head and thorax coarsely rugose-punctate, 
the latter glabrous above, and sprinkled with green scales at the 
sides ; the elytra nearly glabrous. 
I have received numerous specimens from Mr. R. N. Greville, 
found in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and Dr. Greville in- 
forms me, that it is in some years so abundant that a dozen spe- 
cimens may be taken with one grasp of the hand on Alchemilla 
vulgaris ; in Sweden, according to Gyllenhal, it inhabits Artemisia 
campestris. 
Genus PoLypDRosvs, Germ., Schinh. 
§ A. Femora simple. 
1. Polydrosus undatus, Fab., Gyll., Germ., Steph., Schénh. 
— fulvicornis, Steph. 
Curc. selenius, Marsh., Kirb. MSS. 
— rufipes, Linn., Mus. Linn. 
Curc. fulvicornis, Fab. and Gyll., is nearly allied to this insect, 
from which, however, it may be instantly known by having, inde- 
pendent of other characters, the head black, the rostrum, thorax 
and elytra ferrugineous or rufo-castaneous. There are two au- 
thentic examples of Cure. fulvicornis in the collection of Kirby 
from Gyllenhal, and I possess several foreign specimens with that 
name from the collection of Billberg. P. fulvicornis of Stephens 
is, according to the two insects in his cabinet, a variety of P. un- 
datus. I have never seen a British specimen of Cure. fulvicornis 
of Fabricius. Dr. Germar has recorded his opmion*, that the 
description of Curc. rufipes by Linnzeus does not at all agree with 
this species. 
Common on the oak underwood in the woods of Kent and 
Surrey i June. 
* Ent. Zeit. Stettin, no. 5. p. 99, 1842. 
