Ceuth&rrltyncJi iJitts.] RHTNCHOPHORA. 



upper side scantily, clothed with greyish scales ; thorax long, scarcely 

 constricted at all in front, closely punctnred, with lateral tubercles 

 obsolete or absent, anterior margin scarcely raised, basal margin almost 

 straight ; the three longitudinal lines of scales are often very obsolete or 

 almost absent ; elytra short, almost round, with comparatively strong 

 striae and somewhat convex interstices, which are rather roughened 

 behind and are furnished with rows of very short recumbent hairs ; legs 

 rather long. L. 1-H mm. 



On Plantago coronopus, Buckthorn Plantain, and perhaps also on Plantago mari- 

 time, ; very local, but abundant where it occurs ; I have found more than thirtv 

 specimens on one plant of the former species on the clifts near Ventnor, Isle of 

 Wight, at the end of April or beginning of May ; Strood ; Dover ; Folkestone ; Sea- 

 ford, Sussex ; Sonthsea ; Portsmouth district ; Isle of Wight, Ventnor and Sandown ; 

 Whitsand Bay, Plymouth, abundant (J. J. Walker) ; Scotland, rare, Solway district 

 (Sharp) ; when disturbed the insect folds its limbs, falls, and remains motionless and 

 may very easily be passed over ; I used to consider it a great rarity in the Isle of 

 Wight, although collecting in the place in which it was most abundant, until I dis- 

 covered its habits ; it is probably much more widely distributed than is at present 

 known, if we may judge from the Scotch record. 



TAPINOTUS, Schonherr. 



This genus contains a single species which is extremely rare in 

 Britain ; it may be known by its oblong and rather depressed body 

 taken in conjunction with the six-jointed funiculus of the antennae and 

 the fact that the elytra are strongly cut back angularly at shoulders ; the 

 antennae are inserted a little before the middle of the rostrum which is 

 rather stout ; the thorax is even, subcylindrical, scarcely constricted 

 before apex, and bisinuate at base ; the legs are rather long with the 

 femora obsoletely toothed and the claws of the tarsi bifid ; the elytra 

 are not roughened at apex ; the insect occurs very rarely on Lysimarftia 

 in maishy places and the larva feeds at the base of the stein or in the 

 root of the plant. 



T. sellatus, F. (lysima?hi<v, 01.). Oblong, black, clothed on both 

 the upper and under sides with white scales, with two broad dark 

 streaks on thorax and a common black transverse fascia on elytra 

 abbreviated at sides ; antenna?, tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; head with 

 the vertex carinate behind depressed between eyes; rostrum stout, 

 clothed with scales and punctured, shining at apex ; thorax half as 

 broad at base as elytra, subcylindrical, a little shorter than broad, 

 scarcely constricted at apex, with the sides almost straight ; elytra 

 with sides parallel and humeral tubercles marked, depressed on disc, 

 rather finely punctate-striate, excised at shoulders ; legs rather long, 

 prosternum deeply excised at apex. L. 4 mm. 



Male with the intermediate tibiae armed with a small hook and the 

 last ventral segment impressed at apex 



On Lysimachia v^ulgaris ; extremely rare ; in Power's and Wollaston's collections ; 



