298 Mr. J. \^'a1ton on the yenera Pissodes, Hypera, b^e. 



C. Hypera murina, Fab., Gyll., Germ., Schonh. 



— Pollux et elongata van, Steph. sec. cj. Mus. 



— nebulosa var., Steph. sec. ej, Man. 



— fusco-cinereus. Marsh, sec. Mus. Steph. et Kirb. 



— interruptus, Marsh, sec. Steph. Catal. 



— dorsiger, Kirb. MSS. 



This is a larger insect than any of its congeners, and chiefly 

 distinguished by having the thorax subglobose, greatly dilated 

 and rounded at the sides ; the elytra elongate, nearly four timea 

 as long as the thorax. 



Rare ; found in damp grassy places. Plumstead, Barnes Com- 

 mon, Mr. S. Stevens. 



7. H. tigrina (Dcj.), Schonh. 



— elongata. Curt. MSS. 



Elongate, black, thickly clothed with cinereous and silverji 

 white scales, and with white and fuscous hairs. Head shortj 

 convex, closely punctulated ; eyes oblong, depressed ; rostrun 

 rather longer than the thorax, subcylindrical, slender, curved anc 

 punctulated, clothed with hair before the base in the male. Au" 

 tennsc inserted before the middle of the rostrum, rather longer tha 

 the head and thorax, rufo-ferruginous, pilose ; clava oblong-ovate 

 obscure black. Thorax subdepressed, broader than long, consider* 

 ably dilated, and rounded at the sides a little before the middle 

 closely and minutely punctured ; a broad stripe on each side anc 

 a line of silvery white scales down the middle. Elytra oblong- 

 ovate, four times as long as the thorax, the shoulders prominent, 

 obtusely rounded, moderately convex above, distinctly striated, 

 the strise closely and minutely punctured, the interstices narrow, 

 convex, transversely rugulose ; thickly covered with cinereous or 

 silvery white scales, and a series of large subquadrate black spots 

 alternating with white ones on the suture, and with black spots 

 arranged in rows on the alternate interstices rather indistinct an- 

 teriorly but distinct posteriorly. Legs long, black ; femora mo- 

 derately clavate, simple, squamulose; tibise round, pubescent; 

 tarsi elongate, piceous. Length 3 lines. 



This very distinct insect may be discriminated, by having a 

 longer rostrum than any other of the genus, by having the thorax 

 laterally dilated before the middle, and the elytra spotted with 

 black scales. 



I understood Mr. Curtis that three specimens, all nearly alike^ 

 of this new British insect, were found near Dover, one of which 

 I have seen in his cabinet. A single specimen was taken in the 

 same locality by Mr. Marshall the latter end of July. 



