Ceuthorrhynchus.'} RHYNCHOPHORA. 347 



On Cochlearia officinalis and Cardamine pratensis, especially in marshy places ; 

 local, but sometimes found in abundance ; Hammersmith, Micklebam, Esher, 

 Woking, Coombe Wood, Darenth, Wimbledon, Highgate, Cowfold, Eipley, Hasle- 

 mere, Faversham, Snodland, Chobham, Chatham, Maidstone ; Aylsham, Norfolk ; 

 Wrabness, Essex ; Folkestone ; Hastings ; Amberley ; Holm Bush, Brighton ; 

 Portsmouth district ; Knowle, near Birmingham ; Alton ; Aigburth shore, near 

 Liverpool ; Scotland, not common, Solway aud Forth districts. 



(C. suturalis, F. Dull black, with the base of the antennae and 

 the legs ferruginous ; underside clothed with thickly set whitish scales ; 

 upper side with greyish or brownish-grey hairs, and a broad line of 

 white scales extending from the neck to the apex of the elytra, a 

 character that will at once distinguish it ; thorax with the anterior 

 margin moderately raised, sides without tubercle ; elytra with punctured 

 stria3 ; legs moderate, femora not toothed, tarsal claws simple, rather 

 slender. L. 2-2f mm. 



On flowers of species of Allium (leeks, onions, <Sbc.) ; a single specimen only has 

 been recorded as British, which was taken by Mr. T. Sidebotham in May, 1865, 

 crawling on the sand at Llandudno, on the Welsh Coast ; no other specimen has 

 occurred, and the species appears to require further confirmation as British. ) 



C. ericae, Gyll. (albo-setosus, Gyll. ; s.g. Micrelus, Thorns.). A 

 small, short species, black, in fresh specimens powdered with yellowish- 

 green scales, antennae, legs and rostrum red ; base of suture of elytra, 

 and underside, thickly clothed with white scales ; eyes separated by a 

 very narrow punctured space, rostrum long and slender ; thorax com- 

 paratively long, not strongly constricted in front, deeply punctured, 

 with an interrupted, and often obsolete, central furrow, and a small 

 tubercle on each side ; elytra short and broad, much broader than thorax, 

 with prominent shoulders and deep punctured striae, interstices narrow, 

 with small sharp rough tubercles and rows of erect white setae ; femora 

 robust, not toothed, tarsal claws bifid. L. l If mm. 



Male with the posterior tibiae armed with a hook, and the last seg- 

 ment of the abdomen, impressed. 



On ling and heather (Calluna and Erica) ; local, but common where it occurs, and 

 generally distributed throughout the kingdom from the New Forest and the Scilly 

 Islands to the Shetland Islands. 



C. erysimi, F. Short oval, upper surface not strongly convex, 

 seneous or brassy black with the elytra bright metallic blue or greenish 

 blue, very scantily pubescent, apparently glabrous, underside with scanty 

 whitish scales ; thorax comparatively long, strongly constricted before 

 apex, sparingly but deeply punctured on disc, with an interrupted 

 central furrow, and a small tubercle on each side ; elytra with mode- 

 rately strong punctured striae, muricate at apex, interstices rather 

 broad, slightly convex ; antennae, rostrum and legs black, the latter 

 moderately long, not toothed, claws simple. L. 1|-1| mm - 



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

 segment with a fovea in middle. 



