Cionvs.'] 



RHYNCHOPHORA. 



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brown, scantily clothed with greyish pubescence ; rostrum moderately 

 stout, punctured, antennse red or pitchy red with the club fuscous ; 

 thorax very small and short with the sides subdilated, more or 

 less clouded with greyish pubescence on each side of the central 

 line ; elytra with the alternate interstices slightly elevated, and 

 tessellated with velvety black spots and erect whitish fascicles of 

 luur, and with three more or less distinct longitudinal patches at 

 scutellum, a transverse fascia behind middle, and a small spot before. 

 apex black ; legs ferruginous or pitchy ferruginous with the femora 

 more or less infuscate. L. '23 mm. 



Ou Sc-rophularia nodosa ; local, but occasionally found m abundance; Coombe 

 Wood, Mi:kleham, Caterhaun, Dorking, St. Mary Cr.iy, Seveuoaks, Cobhaui, 

 Darenth Wood, West Wickhain, Blackbeath, Wimbledon, Westerham, Chatbaui, &c. ; 

 Hastings ; Portsmouth district ; Southampton ; Glanvilles VVootton ; Bath ; 

 Swansea ; Midland counties, generally distributed ; Hertford ; Cambridge ; Liver- 

 pool district ; Manchester district, general ; Northumberland and Durham district ; 

 Scotland, rare, Solway district ; it probably occurs in Ireland. 



OROBITINA. 



One genus, Orobitis, is contained in this tribe, which is by many 

 authors placed under the Ceuthorrhynchina, but may be distinguished 

 by the quite exceptional structure of the first ventral segment, which 

 is very short and is divided into three equal parts by the posterior coxre, 

 which reach to the base of the second ventral segment ; the body is 

 globose, and glabrous above ; the rostrum is received in a groove of the 

 prosternum and the head is retracted ; the anterior coxae are distant ; 

 the scutellum is large and distinct ; the legs are elongate ; the under 

 surface is very thickly pubescent. 



OROBITIS. Germar. 



One species only is contained in this genus, which is somewhat 

 widely distributed in Central and Southern Europe ; it is a small, deep 

 black or bluish black, globose insect, and when it has its legs and 

 rostrum folded may easily be passed over as a seed ; it is found on species 

 of Viola, and according to Hardy the larva lives in the ovaries of 

 V. canina. 



O. cyaneus, L. Globose, nigro-coeruleous or black, upper surface 

 smooth shining and almost glabrous :* underside and scutellum densely 

 clothed with white or yellowish-white scales ; head punctured, rostrum 

 long, almost straight, punctured at base smooth from the insertion of the 

 antennae, which are long and pitchy, and terminate in an elongate club; 

 thorax transverse, almost semicircular, very finely punctured, often 

 bluish or violaceous ; elytra very convex, gibbous at base, with the 



* In fresh specimens the upper surface is sometimes sparingly furnished with 

 narrow indistinct bluish scales. 



