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ginous or pitchy red ; thorax transverse, short, finely and rugosely punc- 

 tate, with the sides moderately rounded; elytra subglobose, with fine 

 punctured striae, interstices very closely sculptured ; legs pitchy, 

 clothed with grey scales ; size and arrangement of the lighter scales very 

 variable. L. 4-7 1 mm. 



Sandy places on the coast ; very common near the sea, but, as a rule, not an 

 inland species ; generally distributed throughout the kingdom and, as a rule, 

 common ; Dr. Sharp records it as common in Scotland as far north as the Shetland 

 Islands ; it is not altogether confined to the sea -coast, as Mr. Blatch has taken it at 

 Kidderminster and Bewdley, but it appears to be very rare at any distance from the 

 maritime counties. 



AT ACTO GENUS, Tournier. 



This genus comprises eighteen European species ; the single British 

 representative is very like Philopedon geminatus, from which it may be 

 known by not having the apical external angle of the anterior tibiss 

 produced ; it is also somewhat more elongate, with the sculpture of the 

 thorax and the striae of the elytra evidently stronger. 



A. exaratus, Marsh (pltttribeus, Marsh). Oblong, pitch-brown or 

 fuscous-black, clothed with round scales which vary very much in 

 colour from greyish to brownish, and are sometimes uniform and some- 

 times furnished with lighter bands ; head broad, eyes very prominent, 

 antennae pitchy, with the second joint of the funiculus as long as the 

 third and fourth united ; thorax short, narrowed in front, closely sculp- 

 tured ; elytra oval, with distinct punctured striae ; legs fuscous ; size 

 very variable ; in the female the elytra are more ample and the anal 

 segment of the abdomen is subtriangular. L. 5-9 nun. 



On young trees in woods, hedges, &c. ; occasionally by sweeping herbage ; local ; 

 Dsirentli Wood, Chislehurst, Woking, Shirley, Claygate, Caterliam, Coombe Wood, 

 Birch Wood, Barnes, Hampstead, Horsell, Esher, Lee, Weybridge, Westerham, West 

 Wickham ; Bottisham, Cambridge; Hythe ; Hastings; Devon; Swansea; Bewdley; 

 Briilgnorth ; Burton-on-Trent ; Sherwood Forest ; Lancaster; Cuinberliind ; North- 

 umberland and Durham district; not recorded from Scotland; Ireland, Armagh 

 (Johnson). 



BARYNOTINA. 



This tribe, containing the genus Barynotus, has been included by 

 different authors with the Otiorrhynchina and the Philopedina, from the 

 former of which it differs by the formation of the side pieces of the 

 mesosternum, while from the latter it may be known by the free tarsal 

 claws and general shape ; it appears to be most closely related to the 

 Alophina, but differs in the formation of the apex of the hind tibiae, 

 and the longer scape of the antennae ; the cicatrix, moreover, at the apex 

 of the rostrum is large and very distinct. 



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