234 KHYNCHOPHORA. [Hyper a. 



H. tigrina, Boh. (77. pastinacece, Kossi, v. tigrina, Boh.). A very 

 distinct and conspicuous species, which may at once be known by the 

 very long outstanding setse on the elytra, and also by the colour of the 

 elytra ; these are closely covered with lighter and darker scales 

 in alternate lines, which are chequered with small square black 

 patches like a chess-board; the antennae are red with a dark club, and 

 the legs are more or less ferruginous ; the thorax is transverse and has 

 the sides strongly rounded and dilated in front and much contracted 

 behind, and the elytra are oblong oval, with very fine striae. L. 4|-5 

 mm. 



On the heads of Daucus carota (the wild carrot) ; extremely local and not common 

 where it occurs; Dover (where most of the specimens have been taken) ; Folkestone 

 (S. Stevens); Glanvilles VVootton (Dale). 



K. elong-ata, Payk. Black, clothed with ashy or bright brown pubes- 

 cence ; head short, slightly pubescent, flat between the eyes ; rostrum 

 rather short, a little thickened and curved ; antennae red with dark 

 club; thorax convex, closely punctured, with sides rounded, and three 

 rather obsolete lighter lines ; elytra somewhat elongate, nearly twice as 

 long as together broad, with moderate punctured stride, interstices 

 slightly convex, the lateral ones obsoletely marked with fuscous and ashy 

 patches ; legs elongate and stout, pubescent. L. 6-7 mm. 



Very rare, and perhaps doubtfully indigenous ; in Dr. Power's collection there is a 

 doubtful specimen from Birch Wood and another from Mr. Brewer ; Stephens (Illust. 

 iv. 102) says, " My specimens were from the Marsliatnian collection, and I have seen 

 several that were captured near Edinburgh." " Raehills, rare," Hev. W. Little. Dr. 

 Sharp, however, does not recognize the species as from Scotland. 



H. suspiciosa, Herbst. (pedestris, Payk., miles, Payk.). A broad 

 and robust species with ample convex elytra ; black, densely clothed with 

 ashy pubescence and scales ; head thickly punctured, with a channel be- 

 tween eyes ; thorax nearly as long as broad, with the sides slightly 

 rounded, with two light lines towards sides and another, often more or 

 less obsolete, in centre ; elytra much broader than thorax, with the 

 suture often lighter at apex, and with obscure blackish patches on the 

 alternate interstices, scutellary region more or less dark, striae fine and 

 plainly and closely punctured; antennas ferruginous, with the club 

 dusky black ; legs rather long, pitchy. L. 6-7 mm. 



Male with the antenna? inserted almost in the middle of the rostrum, 

 the anterior tibiae rather strongly curved, and the abdomen impressed at 

 base; in the female the antennas are inserted a little behind the apex of 

 rostrum. 



On various LeguminoscB; the larva has been observed on Lotus and Lathyms pra- 

 tensis ; local, but not uncommon where it occurs; Dulwich, Coombe Wood, Chat- 

 ham, Whitstable; Margate; Deal; Hythe; Folkestone; Portsmouth district; 

 Whitsand Bay, Plymouth; Somersetshire; Swansea; Bewdley ; Coleshill, near 

 Birmingham; Wicken Fen; Sherwood Forest; Filey, Yorkshire, not uncommon near 

 the coast; banks and meadows near the Bolliu, Cheshire ; Now Brighton; Nortlmm- 



