364 RHYNCHOPHOBA. [Ceutliorrliynchidius. 



very thickly clothed with white scales, upper surface with a large patch 

 of white scales at base of -suture and a few at apex of elytra, which is 

 more or less distinctly reddish ; rostrum long thin and curved, very 

 finely striate, shining ; thorax transverse, coarsely and closely punctured, 

 strongly constricted before apex, bisimiate at base, with a more or less 

 distinct central furrow, and a small, sometimes obsolete, tubercle on each 

 side, anterior margin raised in middle ; elytra with deep, crenate, strife, 

 interstices flat, moderately broad, plainly rugose ; femora black, tibiae 

 dark, in part reddish, tarsi red. L. 2-2 1 mm. 



On Daucus maritimus ; local, but not uncommon where it occurs ; Caterham, 

 Mickleham, Reigate, Dorking, Forest Hill, Parley Oaks, Claygate, Cowley, Chatham, 

 Whitstable ; Kingsgate ; Hythe ; Folkestone ; Hastings ; Arnberley ; Worthing ; 

 Portsmouth district ; Isle of Wight, Veutnor and Sandown, on the sides of the cliffs 

 on Daucus ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Brandon, Suffolk ; Uepton (W. Garueys) ; Northum- 

 berland and Durham district, rare; Scotland, very rare, Tweed district; Ireland, 

 Ballina. 



C. horridus, F. (spinosus, Goeze). A large and conspicuous species ; 

 pitchy-red, or ferruginous with the elytra, antennae and legs lighter, 

 underside with comparatively scanty greyish scales ; forehead depressed, 

 with rather thick greyish scales, rostrum rather long, striate ; thorax 

 spinose, notched at sides in front, very rough, coarsely and closely 

 punctured, constricted narrowly before apex, with an obsolete central 

 furrow, sides raised and rounded ; elytra broader than thorax, with 

 rather deep striae, interstices raised and bearing single rows of strong 

 black and white setae, with hairs intermixed ; legs moderately long, 

 intermediate and posterior femora rather strongly toothed. L. 3|- 

 5 mm. 



On thistles (Onopordon, Carduus, Cirsium, &c.) ; very local, but not uncommon 

 where it occurs ; Mickleham, Caterham, Shirley, Headley Lane (Esher), Chatham, 

 Sheerness, Whitstable ; Dover ; Folkestone ; Thomess Bay, Isle of Wight ; Port- 

 land ; Kingsbridge, Devon ; Whitsand Bay, Plymouth ; Bristol ; Norfolk ; Clee- 

 thorpes, Lincolnshire ; Northumberland and Durham district, very rare, Westoe. 



C. distinctus, Bris. I have hitherto regarded this species as merely 

 a variety of C. marginatus, and Dr. Sharp has included it under the 

 latter species in the second edition of his catalogue ; the sole point in 

 which it appears to differ from C. marginatus is the sub-generic 

 character that the funiculus of the antennae is six-jointed, and Mr. Eye 

 (Ent. Annual, p. 50) mentions the fact that he had captured a specimen 

 with six joints to one funiculus and seven to the other, which forms a 

 sort of " reductio ad absurdum " of the whole question ; I have followed 

 Bedel in retaining the species in its present position ; this author regards 

 it as " facile a confondre avec le C. punctiger dont elle a tout le facies ;" 

 I must say that even after seeing M. Bedel's work, I still feel that the 

 question of this difficult little group (G. marginatus and its allies) is far 

 from being satisfactorily settled. L. 2-3 mm. 



Tho species has been taken at Horsell and Weybridge by Dr. Power and also by 



