NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1866. 87 



insect always separable by constant structural characters. 

 When these are published, I shall be very glad to use them 

 in discriminating between it and H. Pollux, which I inva- 

 riably take in its company, and to which (as far as appear- 

 ances go) I possess ^* leads," selected out of a single batch 

 of captures. 



80. Hypera (Phytonomus) elongatus, Payh., Faun. 



Suec. iii, 236, 53; (Boh.) Sch5n., Syn. Ins. vi, 369, 

 44; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ed. 2; Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 19 Nov. 1866. 

 Mr. Crotch (loc. cit. p. 135) states that a Hypera for- 

 warded to M. Capiomont, who is engaged on a revision of 

 the European species, was returned with this name. It ap- 

 pears to be very close to H. stispiciosus, but with the tibiae 

 in the male much more strongly hooked, and the whole 

 insect much more elongate. 



Mr. Crotch has no note of the capture of his specimen ; 

 but says the insect occurs in Sweden, and is not unhkely to 

 be found here. 



Schonherr attributes it to this country; probably on ac- 

 count of an erroneous reference to Stephens. 



81. Otioruynchus AMBiGuus, Schon. ; Stierl.280; E. C. 



Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. ii, p. 182. 



I have taken specimens of what I consider may be this 

 insect (recorded as British by De Marseul, Cat. Col. d'Eur. 

 1863, and Stierlin), at Rannoch, in company with O. rugi- 

 fronsy to which it is very closely allied, if, indeed, the two be 

 not specifically identical. 



It appears to be somewhat narrower than 0. rugifronSj 

 and clothed more thickly with hairs ; the thorax is some- 

 what more finely granulated, and the elytra are more finely 



