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Mr. Rye (Ent Annna'.lSGS, p, 80), says: "This wns doubtless only a straggler ; the 

 insect would most likely be obtained, it' the thistle stems found iu that neighbour- 

 hood were brought home and secured in a breeding-cage. It is somewhat like L. 

 bicolor, but smaller and much less robust; the thorax has two dull grey dorsal lines, 

 and the elytra resemble dark specimens of Erirrhinus macula-tug in colour aud 

 marking." It must be admitted that the species requires further confirmation sis 

 indigenous. 



XiARINUS, Germar. 



The species of Larinus are more than one hundred in number and 

 are chietiy confined to the Mediterranean region ; representatives, how- 

 ever, occur at the Cape of Good Hope, in Siberia, Central Asia, &c. ; 

 no species, apparently, have been described from the New World ; the 

 antennae are geniculated, 12-jointed, short and moderately stout, 

 situated towards the apex of the rostrum ; the two basal joints of the 

 luniculus are longer "than the following, which are short ; the club is 

 elongate-ovate and subacute ; the rostrum is moderately long ; the 

 thorax is gradually narrowed from base to apex with the basal margin 

 strongly bisinuate, the centre being produced opposite to the scutellum ; 

 the elytra are broader than thorax, oblong-ovate the legs are rather 

 stout, with the femora thickened and not denticulate ; in the males 

 the abdomen is impressed at base, and the anal segment is very short ; 

 all the species are found on members of the thistle tribe ; of the fifty- 

 six European species only one is found, and that very rarely, in Britain. 



Xi. carlinae, 01. (Rliinobatus plants, Steph.). Black, with the 

 sides of the thorax and the underside clothed with more or less scanty 

 greyish pubescence, and with fascicles of the same on the elytra ; eyes 

 depressed ; rostrum furrowed on each side at base ; antennae red with 

 club dark ; thorax thickly rugose, with continent punctures ; scutellum 

 rather large ; elytra separately and broadly rounded at base, bluntly 

 rounded at apex, with fine punctured striae, interstices coriaceous ; legs 

 black. L. 7-9| mm. 



On various species of thistles ; the larva lives in the heads of the plants ; rare ; 

 Weybridge and Horsell, Surrey (Power) ; Dover ; Sandgate ; Brighton ; New Forest ; 

 Portsmouth district ; Glanvilles Wootton, Mulletts Wood, aud \Vootton Woo. I from 

 1825 to 1872, very scarce; Devon; Weston-super-JIare ; Baruaouth, Wales (Chap- 



peli). 



CURCULIONINA. 



The relation of this tribe to its allies will be seen by reference to the 

 table stating the tribal differences ; it is here regarded as including not 

 only Hylobius and Lepyrus but also Liosomd, Liparus (AJolytes) and 

 Plinthiis, which have, as a rule, with certain other genera, been refened 

 to a separate tribe, called Liparina or Molytina ; Pistsodfs, however, and 

 T/who'tes. which are by some authors referred respectively to the Hylo- 

 biina and Liparina, are under the present arrangement placed under 

 quite separate tribes ; the members of the present tribe are, in many 



