236 BHYNCHOPHORA. [Hi/pera. 



there is also a spot at shoulders and, as a rule, at apex of suture ; legs 

 stout, rufo-ferruginous. L. 4-5 mm. 



Male with the anterior tibiae curved and the base of abdomen and 

 last segment impressed, the latter sinuate on each side. 



Female with the anterior tibiae scarcely curved and the fifth ventral 

 segment with a small fovea before apex which is broadly rounded. 



Chalky and sandy places; on Plantago ; also in moss and by general sweeping ; not 

 uncommon and generally distributed throughout England and Wales ; Dr. Sharp, how- 

 ever, records it as rare in Scotland, Solway and Forth districts ; Ireland, near Dublin 

 and Belfast and probably widely distributed. 



K. meles, F. Pitch-black, closely covered with greyish or yellowish- 

 brown hair-like scales ; head small ; rostrum rather long and nearly 

 straight with the central line and apex glabrous ; antennae entirely red, 

 second joint of funiculus not much longer than third joint ; thorax 

 transverse oval, strongly rounded and dilated at sides, nearly twice as 

 broad as long with a light narrow central line, and a somewhat curved 

 broader one on each side ; elytra with a row of whitish hairs on inter- 

 stices, without marked variegation, but with obscure small light and 

 dark patches and fascicles, and with the apex of suture spotted more or 

 less obscurely with white and brown ; femora dark, tibiae, and usually 

 tarsi, ferruginous. L. 4-5 mm. 



Male with the anterior tibise rather strongly curved, and the base of 

 abdomen and the last segment broadly impressed. 



On Trifolium pratense and Lucerne; apparently very rnre; Mickleham (Power) j 

 received from Ross years ago (S. Stevens) ; Selby, near York, by sweeping a river 

 bank in September (W. C. Hey). In Waterhouse's catalogue it is given as synonymous 

 with H. Trifolii, Herbst. (Stepb. 111. iv. 99), which Stephens records as ''not infre- 

 quent within the metropolitan district ; also found in Norfolk and Suffolk." The species 

 appears to be very imperfectly known. Thomson says that it may be distinguished 

 by its longer rostrum, which is channelled in front between the antennae ar.d has the 

 lateral line more strongly impressed and the central longitudinal line glabrous, and 

 further by the very transverse thorax which has the sides much dilated ; in the latter 

 character it resembles H. plantaginis, but may be separated from that species by the 

 longer and more shining rostrum, the nearer approximation of the eyes on the fore- 

 head, and the absence of a denuded patch at sides of elytra. 



K. trilineata. Marsh. A small species ; black, thickly clothed with 

 brownish-ashy or ashy scales, which are sometimes slightly metallic, and 

 occasionally in part slightly greenish ; antennae red with club dark ; 

 thorax almost as long as broad with three lighter lines, sides only 

 slightly rounded, and only a little contracted behind ; elytra with the 

 suture mottled with dark spots, and with two dark lines near scutellum, 

 and a dark patch on each side of disc towards apex, punctured striae 

 fine ; the variegation, however, differs very much in more or less abraded 

 specimens; legs ferruginous, femora usually dark. L. 3|-4 mm. 



Male with the anterior tibiae rather strongly curved, the abdomen 

 broadly impressed at base, and the fifth ventral segment of the abdo* 



