/Wax.] RHYKCHOPHORA. 267 



the rostrum slightly thickened at apex, and the thorax more closely and 

 granulately sculptured; in the only specimen I have seen, the elytra are 

 more pubescent, the pubescence being rather obscure, but plainly 

 chequered. L. 4f-5 mm. 



Amongst moss and decaying vegetable matter ; Mr. Walton (Annals and Mag. of 

 Natural History, 1844, 111) says that the only specimen he had seen was found 

 amongst moss and decayed vegetable matter from a wood at some distance from 

 Carlisle, in December, by T. C. Heyshain, Esq., who presented it to him ; this speci- 

 men is probably the one in Dr. Power's collection as it has Mr. Heysham's name 

 behind the card on which it is mounted ; at first sight it looks distinct from the type 

 form, but the latter is variable in size, pubescence, Ac., and Mr. Crotch was evidently 

 right in regarding it as only an extreme form of the type. 



PACHVTVCHIUS, Jekel. 



This genus contains a considerable number of species which are dis- 

 tributed over a great part of the old world; more than twenty occur in 

 Europe ; they have long been regarded as belonging to Tychius, but may 

 easily be distinguished by the structure of the ventral segments (of 

 which the second does not at the sides attain the fourth), and the fact 

 that the tarsal claws are not appendiculate ; the single British species 

 used to be regarded as one of our rarest insects, but has recently been 

 found in considerable numbers near Gosport by Mr. Moncreaff. 



P. haematocephalus, Gyll. Rather short and broad, pitchy red or 

 ferruginous, sometimes pitchy black ; head, antennae and rostrum red, 

 the latter moderately long, stout, strongly curved, and finely striated, 

 shining; thorax transverse, broad, with the sides strongly dilated and 

 rounded and narrowed at base and apex, punctuation close and fine but 

 distinct, pubescence scanty except at sides where there is a more or less 

 distinct whitish curved spot ; scuteliuin thickly covered with greyish- 

 white scales ; elytra at base not broader than middle of thorax, rather 

 short, subparallel, narrowed at apex, with tessellated greyish scales, 

 which are often dark along suture, underside with whitish or greyish 

 scales; stria? distinct, but not strongly punctured, interstices rugose 

 legs stout, ferruginous, more or less squamose, anterior and intermediate 

 femora simple, posterior femora strongly toothed. L. 3-4 mm. 



On Lotus cornicvlaius ; extremely local ; Portsmouth district (Moncreaff) ; Mr. 

 Moncreaff says that it is abundant in June at the roots of grass near Gosport, and 

 that it feeds on the seeds of the birdsfoot trefoil ; the larva?, according to Perris, 

 live in the pods of this plant. 



GRYPIDIITS, Stephens. 



This genus only comprises four species which are peculiar to the 

 colder portions of the Northern Hemisphere ; they are moderate-sized 

 insects with the rostrum long and curved, the femora simple and the 

 tibiae slender ; the antennae are rather long and the eyes moderately 



