Phyllobiina.] RHYNCHOPHORA. 197 



I. Scrobes curved, deflcxed and more or less prolonged 



towards under surface. 



i. Upper surface, without scales; size small .... BARYPEITHES, Duv. 

 ii. Upper surface with a more or less thick covering 

 of scales ; size moderate. 



1. Apex of the tibiae with tbe outer margin not 



reflexed at the insertion of the tarsi. 



A. Scrobes meeting beneath rostrum ; antennae 

 witb joints 3-7 of the funiculus globose and sub- 



trausverse METALLITE?, Germ. 



B. Scrobes not meeting beneath rostrum ; antennae 



with joints 3-7 of the funiculus not globose . . POLTDEUSTTS, Germ. 



2. Apex of the tibiae with the outer margin reflexed 

 forming a cavity for the insertion of tbe tarsi ; size 



large LIOPHIXEUS, Germ. 



II. Scrobes not curved or deflexed; upper surface usually 

 thickly covered with scales but occasionally simply 

 pubescent . . PHTLLOBIOS, Germ. 



BARYPEITHES, Duval. 



This genus as here constituted contain? the single species 7?. sulci- 

 frons, the two other British species usually included under it (B. aranei- 

 fornis and B. peUucidui) being now referred to a new genus, Exomiat, 

 . which is placed under the Brachyderina through the formation of the 

 side pieces of the metasternum ; it is a small black shining insect with a 

 very short rostrum. 



B. sulcifrons, Boh. Oblong, glabrous, black or pitchy black, 

 shining ; head broad, closely and distinctly, but comparatively finely 

 punctured, rostrum very short and broad, with a strong central furrow ; 

 antennae long, red, with club darker ; thorax often reddish, with the 

 sides dilated, coarsely and not very closely punctured - elytra elongate 

 oval, with the shoulders rounded, and with regular rows of rather strong 

 punctures, interstices finely punctured ; legs moderately long and stout, 

 red, femora simple. L. 3 mm. 



Jn moss, &c. ; very local; Mount Edgecumbe ; Devonshire, Killerton (Rev. H. 

 S. Gorhi-.m) ; Douglas, Isle of Man ; Scarborough; thken in the north of Northum- 

 berland by Mr. J. Hardy ; Scotland, very local, Tweed and Forth districts. 



LIOPHLCEUS, Germar. 



In the Munich catalogue published in 1871, seventeen species are 

 enumerated as belonging to this genus, but in the European catalogue of 

 Heyden, Keitter and Weise no less than twenty-eight species are men- 

 tioned from Europe alone, fourteen new ones having been described by 

 M.Tournier; according to Bedel the species belonging to the genus 

 vary extremely and several forms have been divided off as separate 

 which have no real appreciable characters; they inhabit Europe and the 

 Caucasus and one or two have been described from Persia ; our single 



