Cneorhinus and Strophosomus. 309 
5. Strophosomus hirtus, Schonh., Mant. Cure. viii. p. 399. 
Subovate, ferruginous, clothed with fuscous scales and with 
short erect hairs. Head small, very short, transverse, black, 
closely and very minutely punctured, the punctures longitudi- 
nally confluent ; eyes small, moderately prominent ; rostrum of 
uniform breadth, a little narrower and rather longer than the 
head, deeply furrowed in the middle and elevated at the sides, 
piceous with the apex testaceous. Antenne long, slender and 
entirely testaceous, the scape as long as the flagellum, curved and 
clavate. Thorax as broad as long, piceous, distinctly constricted 
near the base and apex, dilated and rounded at the sides, convex 
above, thickly and minutely rugulose-punctate, and indistinctly 
foveolated on each side behind the middle. LElytra qvate, ferru- 
ginous, deeply sulcate, the sulci obsoletely punctured, the inter- 
stices convex, smooth, and with a series of short, claviform, erect 
hairs, and sparingly clothed with decumbent fuscous scales, 
deeply cleft at their apices, bifid and trifid. Legs entirely tes- 
taceous. Length 14 line. 
I have the authority of Schdnherr for the generic and specific 
name of this insect ; but it differs considerably from all the other 
species of this genus, by having the head narrower, the eyes 
smaller and much less prominent ; the rostrum narrower, of uni- 
form breadth, and without a transverse striga at the base; the 
scape of the antenne longer and curved. I think in general 
habit and affinity it has a greater resemblance to the insects in 
the genus Omias than to the British forms of Strophosomus with 
which it is associated by Schonherr. 
Taken in the neighbourhood of Southampton by Mr. Walcot 
of Bristol, and subsequently near Arundel amongst moss in Fe- 
bruary by Mr. S. Stevens. 
§ B. Elyira oblong-ovate. 
6. S. Faber, Herbst, Germ., Schénh. 
— chetophorus et septentrionis, Steph. 
Curc. limbatus, Marsh. secund. ejus descr. 
— pilosellus, Gyll., Steph. 
— Sus (a, §.), Kirb. MSS. 
According to Schonherr and Germar, S#. pilosellus of Gyll. and 
Steph. is identical with Cure. Faber of Herbst. 
Immediately recognised from the following by having the tho- 
rax sinuated at the base, and by having the body densely clothed 
with depressed lanceolate scales and with slender erect hairs. 
Not very common ; I have occasionally found it in damp mea- 
dows in June. 
