140 RHYNCHOPHORA. \A]rion. 



Woods ; Barton Moss, Cheshire ; Yorkshire ; Northumberland and Durham district ; 

 Scotland, rare, Solway, Tweed and Forth districts ; Ireland, Dublin, Waterford and 

 Armagh ; the species extends over Europe and the Mediterranean district, and 

 northern and central Asia. 



GROUP 2. 



Upper surface strongly squamose ; antennce inserted at the base of the 

 rostrum which is furnished with a strong tooth on each side at the 

 point of their insertion ; elytra ivith the second stria united behind to the 

 eighth (Oxystoma, Steph.); (on furze, broom and Genista). 



A. ulicis, Forst. Oblong, rather convex, black, covered with 

 thick white scaly pubescence, so that the insect appears to be of a silvery 

 grey colour ; head short, rugosely punctured ; eyes convex ; rostrum, 

 varying in the sexes, narrow and almost straight, brownish-black or 

 somewhat ferruginous ; antennae slender, more or less testaceous, with 

 the club darker ; thorax scarcely longer than broad, convex, with sides 

 narrowed in front, rounded behind middle and contracted at base, finely 

 and closely punctured, with a short stria before scutellum ; scutellum 

 black, glabrous ; elytra convex, broader at base than thorax, not dilated 

 behind, with fine striae and broad finely rugose interstices ; underside 

 thickly sqnamose ; legs dark, more or less pitchy, anterior pair often 

 reddish. L. 2-2f mm. 



Male with the rostrum and antennae considerably shorter than in the 

 female. 



On Ulex Europaus (common furze) and U. nanus; common and generally dis- 

 tributed throughout the greater part of the kingdom. 



A. g-enistae, Kirby. Ova], rather robust, thickly covered with 

 silvery white and fawn-coloured elongate scales, the sides of thorax, 

 underside of body and three central interstices of each elytra being light 

 and the remainder brownish; rostrum moderate, curved, antennas dark, 

 reddish towards base; head short, eyes prominent ; thorax broader at 

 base than long, slightly narrowed in front, closely and rather strongly 

 punctured ; elytra ovate, rather broad, with sides strongly rounded, striae 

 fine ; legs red, tarsi black. L. lf-2i mm. 



On Genista tinctoria and G. anglica ; very local, but not uncommon where it 

 occurs ; Wanstead, Wimbledon, Esher, Horsell, Wokiug, Reigate, Weybridge, Bear- 

 sted, near Maidstone ; Suffolk ; New Forest ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Scotland, rare, 

 Moray district. 



A. fuscirostre, F. More elongate and parallel-sided than the pre- 

 ceding, black, clothed rather sparingly with whitish and cinnamon- 

 coloured elongate scales ; the general colour is brown with the sides of 

 the elytra and an oblique band on each reaching from shoulders to 

 suture, white: the scales, however, are very often abraded ; head short, 

 coarsely punctured, rostrum moderately long, more strongly toothed at 

 the insertion of the antennae than in the preceding species ; thorax 



