118 RHVNCHOPHOHA. \ApodeYUS. 



longer in the male than in the female, with the anterior margin emar- 

 ginate, and the sides straighter and less rounded, in both sexes with a 

 deep central furrow at right angles to a transverse basal furrow ; often 

 there is an oblong black spot on disc ; scutellum large, transverse, 

 shining black, punctured at base and raised behind ; elytra depressed, 

 much broader than thorax, dehiscent at apex, with shoulders very strongly 

 marked, and with strong rows of punctures, interstices finely sculptured, 

 second and fourth raised towards base ; legs long, femora clavate, with 

 teeth not apparent. L. 6-7 mm. 



On young hazels ; local, but not uncommon where it occurs ; it is very conspicuous 

 as it sits on the leaves in the sun ; Chatham, Darenth Wood, Leith Hill, Mickleham, 

 Hampstead, Sheppy ; Hastings ; Portsmouth district ; Southampton ; Glanvilles 

 Wootton ; Fordlands and Barnstaple, Devon (in the latter locality occasionally on 

 birch (Rev. H. Matthews;); Swansea; Ca i bridge ; Malvern ; Bewdley, &c. ; 

 Repton, Burtou-on-Trent ; Langworth Wood near Lincoln; Cawood, Yorkshire; 

 Northumberland and Durham district, scarce, Castle Eden Dene ; Scotland, raro, 

 Sol way, Tweed and Forth, districts; it is never abundant, but apparently occurs in 

 most of the large Midland and Mid-eastern woods in June and July. 



ATTEXiABUS, Linnd (Cgpliug, Thunberg sec Bedel). 



This genus comprises about a hundred species which are distributed 

 very widely over the surface of the globe both in temperate and tropical 

 countries, but are much more characteristic of the latter, the species 

 being especially numerous in Tropical America ; they form a transition 

 between the Attelabina and the Rhynchitina, and may easily be known 

 from Apoderus by the subquadrate head, which is not pedunculate, the 

 narrowly separated intermediate coxae, and the fact that the epimera of 

 the metasternum are rudimentary and glabrous and covered by the 

 elytra, whereas in Apoderus they are long and pubescent and not 

 covered. 



A. curcullonoides, L. (Cyphus nitens, Scop.). Black, smooth and 

 shining, with the thorax and elytra bright red or reddish testaceous ; 

 head not constricted into a neck at base, rostrum somewhat dilated 

 towards apex, antennae short, with a rather long, three-jointed, club ; 

 thorax a little broader than long, diffusely and finely punctured ; 

 scutellum large, black; elytra with rows of rather shallow punctures, 

 interstices with scattered punctures; legs long, femora clavate, tibiaj 

 denticulate on their inner side. L. 4-6 mm. 



Male with the anterior tibiae armed with a single corneous curved 

 hook, situated at the apical internal angle; abdomen with tufts of 

 reddish hairs at the sides of the central line. 



Female Avith the anterior tibiae armed with two curved hooks at apex; 

 abdomen glabrous. 



On young oaks, &c. ; somewhat local but widely distributed ; London district, 

 common, Chatham, Darenth Wood, Shooters Hill, Micklebam, Woking, Croydon, 

 Westerham, Chobham, Sandhurst, Dulwich, Abbey Wood; Norfolk; Suffolk; Dover; 



