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the stem ; extremely loral ; it has only been fouucl in this country by Mr. Walton, 

 who many years ago took it in abundance near the Tivoli Gardens, Margate; the 

 species occurs rather rarely in central and southern Europe and Algeria. 



A. rufirostre, F. (maltarum, Kirby). Black, elytra with a more 

 or less distinct greenish-aeneous reflection, upper surface very scantily 

 pubescent ; head rather broad, striated between eyes, rostrum varying 

 in the. sexes; thorax a little longer than broad, narrowed in front, 

 regularly, rather closely and distinctly punctured, with a fovea before 

 scutellum ; elytra widened, with fine striae which are almost impunctate, 

 and very broad interstices which are rather shining; antennae reddish 

 testaceous, darker in female, legs red, with apex of tarsi dark. L. 3 mm. 



Male with the rostrum reddish-yellow for its apical half, punctured, 

 much shorter than in female ; under-side clothed with thick white 

 squamose pubescence, apex of abdomen red. 



Female with the rostrum entirely black, longer and smoother, the 

 sides of the breast clothed with thick whitish pubescence, and the apex 

 of abdomen and anterior coxa? black. 



On mallows ; the larva has been observed in the seed vessels of Malva sylvesfris 

 and If. rotundifolia ; common and generally distributed from Yorkshire southwards, 

 but rarer further north; Northumberland and Durham districts, very rare; not 

 recorded from Scotland ; Ireland, near Dublin. 



A. viciae, Payk. A rather short and broad species which bears a 

 considerable resemblance to A. em in shape and in the fact that the 

 antennae are entirely yellow in the male and partially black in the female ; 

 upper surface rather dull, clothed with fine whitish pubescence ; head 

 rather broad, striated between eyes ; thorax subtransverse constricted in 

 front, coarsely and regularly punctured, with a channel before scutellum 

 reaching middle ; elytra globose-obovate, with punctured striae and flat 

 interstices ; legs rather long. L. 2 mm. 



Male with the rostrum punctured and pubescent, the antennae entirely 

 yellow, and the under side of the eye and the under surface of the body 

 clothed with white squamose pubescence ; the intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae are black with the basal third red.* 



Female with the rostrum more slender and more curved, smooth and 

 shining, dull at base, the antennae fuscous towards apex, and the inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae black with base at most pitchy. 



On Ticia cracca ; locally common ; Wimbledon, Caterham, Birch Wood, Chatham, 

 Rusper, near Maidstone ; Eastbourne; Thorness Bay, Isle of Wight; Exeter; 

 Bideford ; Wicken Fen; Midland districts, generally distributed; Repton, Burtou- 

 on-Trent ; Yorkshire (very common, Walton); Barton Moss, Cheshire; Liverpool 

 district; Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, Solway, Tweed, Forth 

 and Tay districts ; Ireland, Waterford and near Belfast. 



GROUP 6. 



Upper surface Mack ; leys irlioUy or in part red ; pubescence very slight 

 or absent (chiefly on species o/*Trifolium). 



* On page 133, line 7, "base " should be read lor " apex." Bee Vol. I. Introduction, 

 page xxx. 



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