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roots of plants in sandy places and is extremely like the ground on which 

 it is found, so that it may often be passed over. 



G. lunatus, L. Oblong, clothed with broad scales, part of which 

 are light and part dark, the former forming on the elytra two common 

 crescent-shaped bands with their convex centres opposed to one another ; 

 the colour, however, is very variable, and some specimens appear quite 

 light, and others pitchy and dark with the light bands very much re- 

 duced ; rostrum short, thickly squamose, antennae short, red, with the 

 club darker, inserted a little behind the apex of the rostrum ; eyes 

 vertically oblong ; thorax square, marked with eight oblong impressions, 

 arranged in two rows ; elytra oblong, much broader at shoulders than 

 thorax, shoulders well marked and prominent, punctured striae distinct, 

 alternate interstices raised and costiform ; legs dark, more or less ringed 

 with light and dark scales or pubescence, first joint of tarsi elongate, 

 second and third joints short. L. 3-4 mm. 



Male with the abdomen impressed at base. 



Sandy places ; local, bat often not uncommon where it occnrs ; it is found under 

 stones and at the roots of low plants, and is particularly attached to salterns and low- 

 lying eronnd not far from the sea, although it also occurs inland ; Shirley, Wimble- 

 don, Wisley (Surrey), Blackheath, Hampstead Heath (formerly common, S. Stevens) ; 

 Norfolk ; Suffolk ; Deal ; Dover ; Hastings (not common) ; Portsmouth district ; 

 Shirley Warrcii, Southampton (common, Gorharu) ; Lymington Salterns (not un- 

 common at the end of April) ; Seaford, Devon (Power) ; Westward Ho! N. Devon 

 (taken commonly by myself on the flat ground behind the pebMe ridge on Northam 

 Burrows at the end of August) ; Bristol ; Crymlyn Burrows, Swansea : I know of no 

 record from further north, but it appears to be general all round the southern coasts 

 from Norfolk to Wa'es. 



HYPERISA (Phytonomina). 



This tribe has been variously constituted by different authors, who 

 have in some instances included under it Alophus, Procas, and one or 

 two other European genera: from the characters above given in the 

 table of the tribes it will be seen that the tribe is closely allied to those 

 most nearly related to it, but, if we regard it as containing simply the 

 genera Hypera and Limobius it forms a very natural division cha- 

 racterized by the history of the early stages of its members, which can 

 only be compared with that of the Cionina; the larvae live in the open 

 air on various plants, on the leaves of which they feed ; the body is 

 capable of extension and contraction like that of caterpillars, and is 

 covered Avith a viscous substance which is secreted by a nipple-like 

 prominence on the upper surface of the last segment; locomotion is 

 effected by means of bilobed prominences on the ventral surface; when 

 the larva has attained its full growth it attaches itself to the underside 

 of a leaf or to its stalk and forms a gauzy cocoon from threads of the 

 viscous substance ; this cocoon, which shelters the insect from external 



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