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EHTNCHOPHORA. 



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Male with the posterior tihiae armed with a hook, and the last ventral 

 segment obsoletely impressed. 



On the common nettle, Urtica dioica ; very common and generally distributed 

 throughout the kingdom ; it is perhaps the most universally abundant of all the 

 British Curculionida?. 



C. g-eranii, Payk. (affinis, Payk. (s.g. Allodartylus, "Weise.) ). Short 

 and broad, convex, deep black, shining, without scales on upper surface, 

 underside thickly clothed with whitish scales; head rather coarsely" 

 punctured, rostrum moderately long, punctured, with a smooth central 

 line ; thorax closely and distinctly punctured, very convex, with very 

 small lateral tubercles ; elytra short and broad, with rather deep, almost 

 impunctate, striae; and with the interstices each furnished with a row of 

 setose tubercles, the setae being scarcely visible if viewed sideways ; legs 

 stout, black, intermediate and posterior femora rather obsoletely toothed. 

 L. 2i-2| mm. 



Male with the posterior tibiae armed with a hook. 



On various species of Geranium, especially G. sylvaticum, and also on G.pratense, 

 sanguineum and robertianum; in chalky and sandy places on the sides of cliffs, &c. ; 

 commoner near the coast than inland ; occasionally in moss in winter ; locally 

 common ; London district, not uncommon ; Bristol ; Swansea ; Barmonth, sand- 

 hills, common ; Llandudno; Bewdley; Matlock; Knaresborongh, Yorkshire; Man- 

 chester district, general but rare ; Northumberland and Durham district, Axwell 

 Park, Gibside and Hartlepool; Scotland, widely distributed, Solway, Tweed, Forth, 

 Dee, and probably other districts; Kirkcaldyand Kinghorn (Power); it has not been 

 recorded from Ireland, but almost certainly occurs in that country; the records south 

 of the Midland districts appear to belong to the following species. 



C. exig-uus, 01. This specie?, which by many authors has been 

 considered onl}' a variety of the preceding, may be distinguished by 

 being rather smaller, and by having the anterior margin of the thorax 

 more strongly reflexed, the setae of the elytra plainly visible if viewed 

 sideways, and the asperities or tubercles on the interstices of the elytra 

 less even ; the punctuation of the thorax also is closer and finer ; the 

 differences are, certainly, comparative, but seem to be constant. 

 L. 2-2 mm. 



In drives and paths through and on the borders of woods ; on various species of 

 Geranium, especially G. sylvaticum, G. molle (according to M. H. Brisont), 

 G. pusillum, rotundifolium and dissectum ; London district, not uncommon ; 

 Darentb, Mickleham, Belvedere, Ripley, Dartford, Chatham, Gravesend, Sheerness, 

 "Walton-on-Naze ; Whitstable ; Deal ; Eastbourne ; Arnndel ; Devon ; Bewdley ; 

 Northumberland and Durham district, taken in plenty on Geranium sylvaticum by 

 Mr. Bold ; the records of the two species appear to be somewhat confused, but Mr. 

 Champion informs me that he believes that all the southern records for C. geranii 

 must be referred to this species, as Geranium sylvaticum, which is the chief food-plant 

 of C. geranii, does not occur in the south at all ; it appears, however, not to be 

 confined to this plant, but to occur on other species of Geranium. 



POOPHAGUS, Schonherr. 



Two species are comprised in this genus, according to the Munich 



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