Folydrusus.] RHYNCHOPHORA. 203 



respect to its capture near Portsmouth, Mr. Moncreaff writes, "abundant on 

 wormwood at the north-western side of our island in May." 



P. confluens, Steph. Black, more or less sparingly clothed with ashy- 

 silvery scales which are arranged in denser Hues on centre and sides of 

 thorax, and on sides and at each side of suture of elytra, and are often 

 more or less abraded ; rostrum short ; antennae slender, red, fuscous 

 towards apex ; thorax with the sides rounded and somewhat dilated, 

 contracted in front, closely sculptured ; elytra oval, widened behind, 

 scarcely narrower at base than elytra, with the humeral prominences not 

 strongly marked, and with moderate punctured striae ; femora dark, 

 tibiae red or reddish, anterior femora plainly dentate. L. 5-5^ mm. 



On the broom (Sarothamnus scoparius) and the furze (Ulex Europ&us) ; very 

 local, but not uncommon where it occurs ; Plnmstead, Charlton, Gravesend, Wey- 

 bridge, Be^.rsted, Cooinbe Wood : Brandon, Suffolk ; Hastings ; Brighton ; Shirley 

 Warren, Southampton; New Forest, Lyndhurst, &c. ; Bournemouth; Glanvilles 

 Wootton ; South Wales; Scarborough; Liverpool district. The species has very much 

 the general appearance of Sitones regensteinensi*. 



PHYLLOBIUS, Schonherr. 



This genus contains more than a hundred species, of which more than 

 half occur in Europe, and the remainder are chiefly found in Northern 

 Asia ; a few also have been described from India, Ceylon, Abyssinia, 

 Chili, &c., but they form an exceedingly small proportion ; P. calcaratzut 

 has occurred in Canada ; they are very closely allied to Polydrugus in 

 general appearance and habits, but may be distinguished by not having 

 the scrobes curved and deflexed, very short and nariform ; the an- 

 tennae are long or rather long, with the last joints of the funiculus 

 usually round ; the thorax is transverse, or about as long as broad ; the 

 femora are usually, but not always, strongly toothed, and the tarsi have 

 the first joint for the most part elongate ; in the males of many species, 

 according to M. Bedel, the second ventral segment of the abdomen is 

 raised in a transverse fold, which is contiguous to the posterior margin, 

 and the female has sometimes a fovea on the last segment. 



The British species may be distinguished as follows : 

 I. Femora strongly toothed. 



i. Elytra without scales, but with distinct long pu- 

 bescence ; colour of body black with brown elytra 



(Nemoicus, Steph.) P. OBLO.NGPS, L. 



ii. Elvtra with scales. 



1. Elvtra with narrow scales and no apparent 



additional raised pubescence. 

 A. Posterior tibiae not compressed and carinate 

 on their external border ; eyes moderately 

 prominent. 



a. Legs reddish or reddish-testaceous; scales 

 of elytra yellowish green, longer and 

 thinner; last pints of funiculus of an- 

 tennae considerably longer than broad . . P. CilCARATUS, F> 



b. Leifs dark, more or less clothed witli 

 greenish scales ; scales of elytra bright green 



