152 HHYNCflOPHORA, [Apiotl. 



1877, the year after I began collecting Coleoptera, I beat a considerable Dumber of 

 specimens out of a hedge near Brockenhurst, New Forest, but as I did not know the 

 species I paid no attention to it and only kept three or four examples ; I have only 

 seen one male of the species, which is in Dr. Tower's collection. 



A. Hookeri, Kirby. Short and broad, blact, rather dull, sometimes 

 with a slight greenish reflection, scantily pubescent ; head short and 

 broad, eyes rather prominent ; rostrum about as long as head and thorax, 

 dilated and dull at base, narrowed and rather shining in front ; thorax 

 eubglobose, convex, more narrowed in front than behind, with fine and 

 very close punctuation and an obsolete fovea or channel at base ; elytra 

 oblong-oval, with well-marked shoulders, and deep punctured striae, 

 interstices flat, very finely and transversely shagreened ; legs moderately 

 long and stout. L 2-2 1 mm. 



Male smaller, with the rostrum shorter, and the elytra usually black, 

 rarely greenish. 



Female larger, with the rostrum longer, and the elytra usually greenish; 

 the antennae also are somewhat longer and more slender than in the 

 male. 



On Mafricaria chamomilla, Hieracium umbellatum, Trifolium pratense, &c. : 

 local; London district, not uncommon, Chiygate, Esher, Caterham, Shirley, 

 Woking:, bexley, Chatham, Sheerness, Gravesend, Dartford, Whitstable ; Shipley, 

 near Horsham ; Hastings; Bognorj Worthing: Portsmouth; Southampton; New 

 Forret ; Bournemouth ; Isle of Wight, Ventnor, Sandown, &c. ; Devon (larvro feed- 

 ing on the heads of flowers of M atricaria inodora, V. maritima) ; Corwen ; Lowestoft ; 

 Wickeu Fen ; Erdington ; Knowle, near Birmingham ; Harrogate. 



GROUP 9. 



Rather long and large, more or less metallic, species icith the inter- 

 mediate CLAW broadly distant (on mallows and thistles). 



A. seneum, F. A large convex species, black, with the elytra 

 metallic, blue, greenish, or occasionally coppery ; pubescence very fine 

 and scanty; forehead with a strong and deep longitudinal furrow, a point 

 that will easily distinguish the species ; rostrum thick, cylindrical, 

 slightly dilated at sides, plainly punctured ; antennse rather short and 

 thick ; thorax longer than broad, somewhat constricted in front, coarsely 

 punctured, with a deep furrow or fovea before scutellum which is 

 elongate ; elytra convex, shining, with the shoulders well marked, com- 

 paratively finely striated, the strife being apparently almost impunctate, 

 and with the interstices broad and flat and marked with traces of fine 

 diffuse punctuation ; legs rather stout, black. L. 3-3| mm. 



Male with the rostrum thicker and shorter, and the anterior tibiae 

 slightly curved. 



On various species of mallows; the larva has been found in the stems of M. sylvestris 

 and rotundifolia, and the perfect insect has also occurred on other species ; generally 

 distributed and common throughout the greater part of England and probably Scot- 

 land and Ireland. 



