248 RHYNCHOPHORA. [Liosoma. 



Zi. oblong-ilium, Boh. Very closely allied to the preceding, which 

 at first sight it closely resembles, but longer and narrower, with the 

 rostrum longer and more coarsely and deeply punctured, and not quite 

 so stout or so much curved downwards, and the antennas longer, the 

 difference being especially noticeable in the scape ; the sides of the 

 thorax are said to be straighter, but this character is not very evident ; 

 the punctures of the elytra are a little larger, forming rows, but 

 apparently not placed in impressed lines, and the underside is more 

 strongly and remotely punctured ; the metasternal depression of the male 

 is wider and better defined ; the chief character, however, lies in the fact 

 that the femora are not furnished with a tooth. L. 2|-3 mm. 



Chalky and saudy places ; in moss and by sweeping herbage ; rare, but perhaps over- 

 looked ; Caterhain and Haslemere (Champion) ; Chatham and Faversham (J. J. 

 Walker); Wrabuess, Essex (Walker) ; Guestling, near Hastings; Sharpness, Glou- 

 cestershire (T. Wood) ; Buddon Wood, Leicestershire ; Ireland, Gulway, one example 

 (Walker). 



L. troglodytes, Eye. A small, short species; in shape resem- 

 bling L. ovatulum, but smaller, with the femora untoothed, and with 

 lighter legs, the femora being pitchy, and the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; 

 the anterior tibiae are also straighter, the rostrum less stout and much 

 more strongly punctured, and the thorax more opaque and much more 

 closely punctured, with the interstices alutaceous, and in parts almost 

 converted into wrinkles ; the sculpture of the thorax, together with its 

 smaller size and broader build, the more evident humeral angles and 

 more marked striae of the elytra will distinguish it from L. ollongulum ; 

 the antennae, also, are situated further from the apex of the rostrum 

 than in the latter species. L. 2-2| mm. 



Chalky banks ; in damp moss in spring; very rare; Chatham and Faversham (a 

 few examples taken by J. J. Walker); Fareham (Walker); Guestling, near Hust- 

 ings; Mr. S. Stevens bus a specimen taken at Leith Hill in 1850. Mr. Rye first 

 described the species on one of Mr. Walker's examples in 1873. 



L.IP ARUS, Olivier (Molytes, Schonherr). 



The species belonging to this genus are among the largest of the 

 European Curculionidae ; they are all peculiar to Northern and Central 

 Europe ; they are black, more or less glabrous, and in several cases 

 variegated with patches of yellowish pubescence ; the .rostrum is 

 moderately long and dilated at apex ; the antennae are moderately 

 long, with the scape reaching eyes, which are vertically oval ; thorax 

 with a row of hairs at base and closely applied to the base of elytra ; 

 scutellum scarcely visible ; elytra broader than thorax, dilated behind, 

 more or less confusedly sculptured ; prosternum emarginate at apex ; 

 rnetasternuin very short ; legs moderately long, tibias with a strong tuft 

 at apex externally ; in the males the anal segment of the abdomen is 

 broadly and very shallowly impressed. 



