20S RHYNCHOPHORA. [Tanymecua. 



On burdocks, thistles, nettles, &c. ; local ; London district, rather common ; Darenth 

 Wood, Forest Hill, Chatham, Sheerness, Birch Wood, Eppiug, Witltluunstow, Clay- 

 gate, Horsell, Bushey, Tottenham, Reigate, &c. ; Bottishara, Cambridge; Cromer ; 

 Pegwell Bay (common but extremely local, under stones on the shore) ; Hustings ; 

 Shipley ; Winchester ; Portsmouth district ; Hayling ; Isle of Wight ; New Forest ; 

 Glanvilles Wootton ; Bristol; Swansea; Banks of Wye; I know of no record from 

 the Midland counties, but it probably occurs ; York ; Scarborough ; Lancaster ; 

 Northumberland ami Durham district ; Scotland, rare, Solway district only. 



PHILOPEDINA (Cneorrhinina, pars.). 



This tribe contains six European genera, the nomenclature of which 

 is somewhat confused, as the majority of the species have been referred 

 to the genus Gneorrkinus ; this latter genus, however, contains only two 

 species, C. barcelonieus and G. Heydeni, and the two British species 

 must be referred respectively to Philopedon and Ataetogenus ; the tribe 

 has by some authors been included un lor the Otiorrhynchina, from 

 which it differs by the formation of the side pieces of the mesosternum ; 

 from the Phyllobiina it may be known by the short oval convex elytra, 

 which are almost subglobose, and the short metasternum. 



I. Apical external angle of anterior tibia? strongly pro- 

 duced PHILOPEDON, Steph. 



II. Apical external angle of anterior tibiae not produced . ATACTOGENCS, Tourn. 



PHILOPEDON, Stephens (Dactylorrhinus, Tournier; 

 Cneorrkinus, pars. auct.). 



The genus Oneorrhinns, to which the species contained under this and 

 the preceding tribe have been referred by many authors, contains about 

 thirty species which are widely distributed, representatives occurring in 

 Europe, South Africa, Northern China, Japan, &c. ; these have, how- 

 ever, been divided into several fresh genera, and in the last European 

 catalogue Cneorrhinus contains only the two species, C. barcelonicus and 

 G. Heydeni, whereas our common species, G. geminatus, F., is referred 

 to the Dactylorrhinus of Tournier. Bedel, however, rightly revives the 

 name Philopcdon of Stephens ; the genus is characterized, as Stephens 

 says (111. iv. 124), by the remarkable rotundity of its elytra, as com- 

 pared with its short transverse thorax ; the rostrum is broad, short, 

 channelled, and divided from the head, as it were, by a transverse 

 suture ; the eyes are very prominent, and the posterior pairs of tibi?e 

 have a distinct tuft at their heel ; the antennae are rather short and the 

 scrobes angularly deflexed ; in Philopedon proper the external angle of 

 the anterior tibise is strongly produced. 



P. g-eminatus, F. Black, thickly clothed with fuscous-grey scales, 

 which are lighter on head, at base and sides of thorax and on alternate 

 lines on the elytra ; upper surface with short erect ashy hairs ; head 

 broad, eyes prominent, forehead somewhat depressed ; antenna; ferru- 





