148 BHYNCHOPHORA. [Apiofl. 



By sweeping herbage, on or near the coast : it probably occurs on Trifoliurn, as 

 it has been found in some numbers at the bottom of a clover stack in winter at Sheer- 

 ness by Mr. J. J. Walker ; very local and rare : Southend (Rye and Gorham) ; 

 Sheerness (Walker and Champion) ; Wey bridge and Seaford, Devon (Power) ; East- 

 bourne (Waterhouse) ; Portsmouth, 1873 (Walker); Heath at Warning Camp near 

 Arundel (Walton and S. Stevens) ; Brading, Isle of Wight (S. Stevens) ; Scar- 

 borough, August, 1837 (Walton) ; the specimens in our collection are chiefly due to 

 the liberality of Mr. J. J. Walker, who has found so many rare British species in 

 numbers, and is a true type of an unselfish entomologist, as he collects vigorously for 

 his friends and keeps no collection himself. 



A. apricans, Herbst. (fagi, Kirby, flavifemoratum, Kirby, assimile, 

 Kirby (1),Jlavipes, Mull, nee F.). Black, glabrous, rather shining ; fore- 

 head rugosely punctured, rostrum long and slender, slightly curved, 

 antennae black with base reddish ; forehead rugosely punctured ; thorax 

 oblong, oval-cylindrical, rather closely and distinctly and regularly 

 punctured, with a central channel behind ; elytra obovate with strong 

 punctured striae, interstices rather broad ; legs black, with all the femora 

 and the anterior tibiae reddish-testaceous. L. 2-2f mm. 



Female with the rostrum longer than in male, and the elytra deflexed 

 and callose behind. 



On red clover (Trifolium pratense), &c. ; also occasionally on trees ; generally dis- 

 tributed and common throughout the greater part of the kingdom ; the species is 

 spread over Europe and Northern Asia, and sometimes does considerable damage in 

 clover fields. 



A. assimile, Kirby. I have followed Bedel in not regarding this as a 

 separate species ; as he remarks (1. c. p. 209), authors are not agreed as 

 to the distinctive characters they assign to it, and it might be added that 

 the characters themselves are comparative and slight, and in as far as 

 they rest on the punctuation of the thorax and colour of legs they are 

 not reliable, as in these points different specimens of the same species 

 are somewhat variable. I have never been able satisfactorily to dis- 

 tinguish the two species and am very glad that A. assimile appears now to 

 be sunk, as it considerably simplifies the red-legged group; it may, however, 

 be as well to point out the usually received differences as given by Walton 

 (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844, p. 37), where he says, " A. assimile 

 may be known from A. fagi by having the rostrum in botli sexes dis- 

 tinctly more curved, and in the male attenuated in front, whereas the 

 latter species has the rostrum of both sexes filiform, nearly straight, and 

 evidently longest in the female. A. assimile has the basal joints of the 

 antennae dull piceous and the thorax closely punctuated, with the punc- 

 tures confluent. A. fagi has the basal joints of the antennae testaceous 

 and the thorax above more convex, with shallow subremote punctures on 

 Ihe disc; and it is a larger insect than A. assimile." A. assimile is re- 

 corded as found in company with A. fagi and as being just as common. 



A. Bohemani, Thorns, (ononidis, Gyll., ononicula, Bach., assimile, 

 Kirby forte, apricans var. Seidl.). Closely allied to A, apricans but 



