Barynotus.] imYNCHOPHORA. 211 



almost, if not quite, wanting on rostrum, very scanty on thorax ; thorax 

 more evidently punctured, with the sides straighter and less rounded ; 

 elytra -with the shoulders more pronounced. L. 8-9 mm. 



Found under the same circumstances as the preceding ; local, but common in many 

 northern localities '; Manchester district, general (Chappell) ; Heysham, near Lan- 

 caster (Reston) ; Northumberland and Durham district, of occasional occurrence in 

 meadows, &c. (Bold) ; Scotland, rather common in flood refuse, Solway, Forth, Tay, 

 Dee and Shetland districts, and probably general ; Ireland, Newcastle (Champion; 

 and Armagh (Johnson). 



B. elevatus, Marsh (mcerens, auct. nee F.). Fuscous-pitchy, 

 thickly clothed with dull unicolorous grey scales ; rostrum squamose, 

 with a deep central furrow and two oblique shorter ones on each side ; 

 thorax slightly transverse, with the sides moderately rounded ; elytra 

 dilated behind, with rather strongly punctured striae, alternate inter- 

 stices and apex of suture elevated, fifth and sixth striae united near 

 shoulders, raised setae rather fine ; legs black, tibiae and tarsi pitchy ; 

 the antenna? are, as a ride, pitchy, but are sometimes ferruginous and 

 the legs rufo-piceous. L. 7|-9 mm. 



Under stones, in moss, flood refuse, Ac. ; also by sweeping among bracken ; local, 

 and as a rule not common ; London district, not common, St. Mary Cray, CliL-le- 

 hurst ; Aylshaun, Norfolk ; Suffolk ; Littlington, Cambridge ; Folkestone ; Devon ; 

 B;>th ; Biistol; Gloucester; Knowle, near Birmingham; Swansea; Llandndno; 

 Amlwcli, Anglesea; Bretby Wood, Repton (common by sweeping among bracken in 

 early summer) ; Leyburn, Yorks ; Manchester district, general ; Heysham ; North- 

 umberland and Durham district; Scotland, rather common in flood refuse, Solway, 

 Tweed and Forth districts ; Ireland, near Dublin, frequent, Armagh, &c. 



ALOPHINA. 



The two genera included by Bedel under this tribe, Alophus and 

 Shy tido' feres, are placed by Heyden Reitter and Weise under the section 

 Rhynchaenitaa in the Hyperina and Cleonina respectively ; their position 

 therefore appears to be somewhat in dispute ; they are, however, closely 

 allied to the Barynotina, from which they differ in the characters 

 before referred to ; one genus only, represented by one species, occurs 

 in Britain. 



AXiOFHUS, Schonherr. 



This genus contains about twenty species, of which the greater 

 number are found in Northern Asia ; five occur in Europe, and one or 

 two have been found in North America and Egypt ; our single species, 

 in general appearance, much resembles a large Hypera : the rostrum is 

 rather long, with the scrobes much deflexed and almost meeting below ; 

 the antennae are somewhat slender, with the first two joints of the 

 funiculus nearly equal ; the thorax is subquadiate or slightly transverse, 

 and the second abdominal spgment is at least as long as the next two 



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