Ti/''hillS.] RHYXCHOPHORA. 209 



T. Scbneideri, Horbst. (lineatulus, Brit. Cat. nee 'Slt-ph ; i>lij- 

 lineatus, Wat. ncc Germ.). Black, upper surface clothed with fine 

 greyish scales which have a slight metallic reflection, thorax with 

 three white lines, elytra with the suture ,and the alternate interstices 

 white, so that the whole insect appears to be lineated ; underside with 

 broader whitish scales ; antennae and legs ferruginous ; thorax scarcely 

 transverse, with the sides not strongly rounded ; elytra moderately 

 long, subparallel, about as broad at base as base of thorax, with dis- 

 tinct striae ; posterior femora with a small tooth beneath. L. 2-2| 

 mm. 



Male with the anterior tibiae curved at apex and the rostrum pitchy 

 black at base, ferruginous at apex. 



Female with the anterior tibiae straight and the rostrum ferruginous. 



Chalky places; on Anthyllis vulneraria, very loca', "but common where it is 

 found ; Crovdon, Riddlesdown, Cater/ham, Charlton, Chatham ; Kinssgate ; Folke- 

 stone; Hastings; I-le of Wight (common at the end of April and beginning of 

 May at Vetitnor. Sandown, Ac., at roots of Anthyllis on the cliffs); Portsmouth 

 district ; Faliuonth ; Whitsand Bay, Plymouth ; it appears to be confined to the 

 South-eastern and Southern counties. 



(T. polylineatus, Germ., ner "Wat. Black, upper surface clothed 

 with narrow grey, somewhat shining and metallic scales, underside with 

 broader white scales; apex of rostrum, tibiae and tarsi ferruginous; 

 thorax with a single central white line, transverse ; elytra broader at 

 shoulders than base of thorax with the suture and alternate interstices 

 white ; posterior femora with an obtuse, more or less obsolete, tooth ; 

 tbe antennae have joints 4-8 transverse. L. 2 j-2| mm. 



On Trifolium pratense, on which the larva produces a gall; introduced an 

 British by Mr. Crotch en the authority of a single specimen taken by him about 1863 

 at Cambridge and named by 31. Brisont ; the species is so closely allied to the pre- 

 ceding that it certainly appears to require further confirmation before being finally 

 regarded as indigenous.) 



T. meliloti, Steph. Pitchy-red, densely clothed with fine yellowish- 

 brown or greyish brown scales, underside lighter ; rostrum subulate and 

 bright red in front of the insertion of the antennae, base pubescent ; 

 antenrae entirely red, or with the club sometimes a little darker ; thorax 

 subtransverse with the sides slightly rounded, unicolorous ; elytra 

 broader than thorax, with the striae either distinct or more or less 

 covered by the scales, unicolorous or with suture lighter ; femora dark, 

 tibia? and tarsi rufo-testaceous. L. 2-2^ mm. 



Mule with the anterior tibiae furnished with a small tooth on their 

 internal margin. 



On llelilotus rffirinalis ; local, bnt comiron where it occurs; Highgate, Hammer- 

 smith, Forest Hill, Eig;;te, Cbarlton, Maids-tone, Brock ley, Chatham; Ditchingbara, 

 So- folk; Suffolk; Dover; Hastings; Pcrtunouth district; Isle of Wight, Thor- 

 nt-ss Bay, Ryde, Cowes, Lr.ccombe, Sandown, &c. (common at the end of April and 

 b< ginning of May) ; Lvme Eegis ; Chesil Beach; Weymonth ; Trench Woods, Broms- 

 grove; Kepton, Bnrtcn-on-Treut (rare); it appears to be almost entirely confined 



