Phyllobius.] RHTSCHOPHOBA. -207 



with greenish hair-like scales with which also the under side and femora 

 are covered ; elytra smooth and shining with coarsely and deeply punc- 

 tured striae, acuminate at apex ; abdomen with the scales more sparing 

 than on breast ; femora black, tibiae and tarsi ferruginous. L. 3-44 

 mm. 



Male with the anterior tibiae armed with a distinct hook. 



On flowers of Hieracium, Alchemilla, Artemisia maritima, and by general sweep- 

 ing ; local ; not recorded from the London district ; Yarmouth ; Devil's Ditch, 

 Cambridgeshire ; Matlock ; Dove Dale; Cieethorpes; York; Clitheroe; Hartle- 

 pool ; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, local, on AlcAemilla, Sol way, 

 Forth, Tay and Dee districts. With regard to the genus the Rev. W. C. Hey 

 writes to me as follows : " My father and I took the whole genus (nine species) one 

 spring iu the field below our house at Clifton, York ; Crotch named them; he was 

 with us at the time." 



TANYMECINA. 



This tribe is represented in Europe by five or six genera and about 

 eighty species ; only one genus, however, comprising one species, is 

 found in Britain; the tribe maybe known by the free tarsal claws taken 

 in conjunction with the fact that the thorax is furnished with long 

 hairs at the sides behind the eyes. 



TANYIVIECUS. Schonherr. 



A rather large number of species are comprised in this genus, which 

 is widely distributed over the greater part of the world; twenty-one 

 species occur in Europe, of which one only is widely distributed ; it is 

 the sole representative found in Norway and Sweden, France and 

 Britain ; it is a rather large, elongate, somewhat depressed, insect, Avith 

 the rostrum short and broad, the antennae long, and the eyes depressed; 

 the scrobes are obsolete behind ; the thorax is longer than broad, sub- 

 cylindrical; the elytra are somewhat acuminate at apex, and the tibiae 

 are setulose at apex ; it is found on various members of the thistle 

 tribe. 



T. pallia tus, F. Flongate, not very convex, black, clothed with 

 fuscous pilose hairs and scales, and with light greyish-white scales on 

 rostrum, at sides of thorax and elytra and on the under side ; rostrum 

 flat and broad ; thorax oblong, closely sculptured ; elytra at base much 

 broader than thorax, with the shoulders strongly marked, and with fine, 

 but rather deep and plainly punctured, strite ; legs moderate, black, 

 with grey pubescence, fringe at apical external angle of intermediate 

 and posterior tibiae rather long and divided. L. 8-11 mm. 



Male with the middle of the abdomen very slightly impressed, the 

 anterior tibia? sinuate on their inner side at apex and armed with a small 

 hook. 



Female with the abdomen convex and even, and the anterior tibiae 

 scarcely sinuate. 



